The indicators that measure the spread of COVID-19 in Spain they continue stable and decreasing after the Christmas festivities, with 3,505 patients admitted linked to infection “with or by” covid-19, which translates into a 2.7% hospital occupancy and a downward incidence of 124 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
According to the data of the Ministry of Health, in the last week there are 15 fewer patients in hospitals and a total of 222 in intensive care units (231 seven days ago), that is, a 2.5% occupancy.
Health data is published in the middle of the saturation in the emergencies of large hospitals in at least eight communities and that is produced by, according to unions and medical associations, the lack of human resources, the consequent referral of patients from primary care, the still high incidence of respiratory diseases and health problems due to the drop in temperatures.
About the incidence of set of respiratory diseases, in which covid-19 is located, has decreased in the last month from the 858 to 567 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants, but it is still at a high threshold, in line with the seasonal peaks produced by different types of viruses.
Specifically, the incidence of covid-19, which is measured in the citizens over 59 years of age, is at 124 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants, but experts and epidemiologists estimate that the transmission rate is significantly higher given that fewer antigen tests are performed due to the lesser severity of the disease in a context of high level of vaccination and successive exposure to the virus since 2020.
Thus, the data that Health has to measure health impact of the advancement of new omicron variants such as BQ.1 (and derived sublineages) or XBB.1.5, found in the United States and in Spain it is still detected sporadically, they point to a context of indicators that remain within a standard scale.
It is estimated that of the 3,505 hospitalized patients, the 50% are due to related complications to health problems due to a covid-19 infection, while the rest have been diagnosed with the infection, but the cause of hospitalization is another.
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However, both Health and the health authorities continue to call the precaution for the most vulnerable groups as chronically ill or senior citizens, as well as advance in the fourth doses of the covid-19 vaccine, rate that in Spain continues to be low.
The number of deaths linked to covid-19 in the last week amounts to 93 (117,413 since the start of the pandemic) and the mortality records, calculated on the population in which the virus has a greater impact (over 60 years of age), indicate that lethality continues at 3.6% and in less than 0.8% for the whole population.
