Coronavirus: Catalonia expects to exceed 2,000 hospitalizations due to covid | Catalonia

The Generalitat of Catalonia calculates to exceed 2,000 admissions due to covid. The Department of Health anticipates that the current restrictions will have an effect on the control of the pandemic by the end of the week, and that hospital admissions will stop increasing from the next week. “When the infections begin, the hospital affectation is observed from 10 days, and 10 days later, in the ICUs”, defended this Monday the deputy director general of Public Health coordination, Xavier Llaberia.

The person in charge understands that the current epidemiological stability will allow to reduce hospital admissions from next week, although the patients in the ward will then exceed 2,000 cases, according to his calculations. Catalonia currently registers 1,683 admitted, 138 more than the day before. In ICUs, the situation will also grow in the coming days, Llaberia admitted. “We will exceed 400 critics,” he explained. The head of the Catsalut, Gemma Craywinckel, explained on Sunday that from that figure the hospitals will stop assuming the usual non-covid activity, but in different centers, such as Bellvitge or the Hospital del Mar, the activity has already been rescheduled since last week .

In this sense, the average age of people admitted to the ward is 55 years, while in the ICU, 53. Llaberia did not specify the profile of deaths, which have tripled in three weeks, but assured that “There has been no varied a lot ”compared to the previous waves. Catalonia registers has gone from notifying 7 deaths a week at the end of June, to 25 in the last seven days.

The police raised 710 minutes on the first weekend without a curfew

On the other hand, the Mossos and the local police raised this weekend, the first with a curfew in most of the Catalan territory, 710 minutes, 400 of which for violating the limitation of night mobility. “On the coasts we find mostly tourists and foreigners who assured that they did not know the norm, while in the interior the public was more indigenous,” said the Mossos spokesman, Joan Carles Molinero.

Protocol in the residences

The fifth wave has forced Catalonia to toughen the protocol for visits to residences, which comes into effect this Tuesday. Non-vaccinated professionals will perform a PCR three times a week, instead of once as before; while workers with the complete pattern will pass this test once every seven days. In addition, simultaneous visitors are reduced from three to two and must present a negative rapid antigen test (ART) regardless of their vaccination status. Llaberia specified that the public health system “will not assume” these tests.

Catalonia currently continues with a complicated epidemiological situation, but the records of the Department of Health indicate that the peak could have arrived. Weekly infections no longer grow, although they remain close to 50,000 cases. From July 9 to 15, Catalonia registered 47,465 positives, for the 44,764 of the previous seven days. In the preceding weeks, the growth was practically exponential.

The speed of reproduction of the disease (rt) drops to 1.13 and the percentage of positivity of the antigen and PCR tests stands at 20.61%, while the cumulative incidence in the last 14 days is 1,187 for each 100,000 inhabitants.

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