Update of data by communities | Catalonia still adds 250 weekly deaths after 20 days of declining infections
Infections have been declining for 20 consecutive days in Catalonia, where 251 deaths have still been recorded in the last seven days, an average of 35 daily, while the pressure on primary care centers is easing and hospital occupancy is declining, albeit more slowly. .
According to data updated this Tuesday by the Department of Health, this Tuesday there are 2,205 people admitted to hospitals for covid, 112 less than yesterday, of which 324, ten less than the day before, are in serious condition in the ICU, 238 of them intubated and 16 with ECMO (extracorporeal respiration), the same number of serious as there was on December 19.
The speed of spread of the virus (Rt) remains stagnant at 0.63, that is, every hundred infected infect an average of 63 people. The risk of regrowth (EPG), an indicator that measures the potential growth of the epidemic and which reached the maximum since the start of the health emergency on January 16, with 6,903 points, has been plummeting for 20 consecutive days, and today It has stood at 1,210 points, 101 less than yesterday, but it is still considered very high risk since the high risk threshold is 100 points. (Eph)
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