Spain has registered until this Thursday 2,463 outbreaks with around 25,700 cases of associated coronaviruses in all communities and, from those foci, 687 have been notified in the last week, mostly related to leisure and family gatherings.
The Ministry of Health has added another 9,658 coronavirus infections to the global count this Thursday, which has now reached 429,507 since the start of the pandemic; of them, 3,781 have been diagnosed in the last 24 hours, one more day the vast majority in the Community of Madrid, which has accumulated one in four cases.
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Also, in these same 24 hours, 880 people have been admitted -42 less than those recorded yesterday-, bringing the total number of hospitalized patients to 6,036, of which 715 are in intensive care units.
However, the hospital occupancy rate has dropped half a point and it stands at 5%, although the pressure that Madrid and Aragonese centers bear is more than double that figure (13% in both); it is also surpassed by the Basque Country (10%) and the Balearic Islands (9%). As a consequence, it is the Madrid ICUs that have the most patients (176), followed by Catalonia (147).
The director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES), Fernando Simon, has indicated that the situation in the hospitals is “calm” and far from what they suffered in March, when they arrived at withstand a healthcare pressure of 55% and the ICUs had to be expanded “up to 4 and 5 times.”
“We understand that the pressure now on hospitals it is not important at all, This does not mean that someone in particular cannot have a greater pressure, “he asserted to add that, in addition, the discharges are compensating the income, since they have occurred in the last day 644.
Despite the fact that the pressure of the healthcare system “is not excessive in the hospital part”, It is true that it increases in Primary Care, due to the diagnostic effort and the contact studies, the epidemiologist has recognized.
Sanidad raises in its last balance to 28,996 people who have lost their lives in this pandemic, which is 24 more than those registered the day before; 132 have died in the last week, almost half (56) in Madrid.
Young people, the most affected
The groups most affected by the second curve of the coronavirus continue to be the young, “but there are also increases in the elderly,” as the accumulated incidence rate advances, which is already 183.87 cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants at fourteen days.
In fact, Simón explained, right now the incidences are “much higher” in the school population up to 17 years of age than in March or April: 80 for minors up to 11 years old and 100 for those over 12. However, the number of serious cases “is very low”, and hospitalization rates are “close to 0%”.
The average age of people who become infected remains between 37 and 38 years in the total of the epidemic, and drops to between 35 and 36 in the last month.
77% of outbreaks are small in magnitude
In its report this Thursday, Health has also updated the information regarding the outbreaks: since the de-escalation ended until this Wednesday at 12:00 hours, 2,463 have been reported with around 25,700 cases. And of them, 687, with 5,300 cases, have been reported since August 20.
Almost eight out of ten of these episodes, 77% are of small magnitude, with less than 10 cases; those largest, some even with more than 100, occur in leisure settings, among workers in vulnerable situations and in social and health centers.
Outbreaks in these centers have been increasing to 7.1% of them and 10.2% of cases, says Health, which also focuses on those that occur in socially vulnerable groups (4.1% of outbreaks and 4.3% of cases), especially in reception centers, and in health centers (2.4% of outbreaks and 2.6% of cases).
But it is the social one that it still maintains as the main scope (32.6% of outbreaks and 32.4% of cases). And those linked to entertainment venues continue to stand out, with 124 outbreaks and around 3,400 positives, followed by family and friends gatherings (470 outbreaks and around 3,200 cases).
Other relevant ones are those that occur in the job, representing 15.5% and 18.9%, respectively, especially those related to temporary workers. Health warns that in recent weeks those arising in the business sector and in the building and those that occur in the hospitality sector.
It is worth highlighting those with a mixed component (16.4% of outbreaks and 18.4% of cases), where transmission shifts, for example, from the family environment to others such as work or social, or vice versa, and those that they affect members of the same family who live in different homes (15.8% and 8.8%).
Given these data, the director of the CCAES has insisted that the situation of each territory has to be assessed by each autonomous community and, in that sense, has referred to the offer on the declaration of the state of alarm the declaration of the alarm state made to regional governments by the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.
“It is one more tool that is available,” said Simón, who has considered “that the unconditional support” that Sánchez has offered to the autonomous governments in the event that they had to request a state of alarm “is an honest gesture.”
Reinfections, untested
Finally, he has referred to the information that points to two cases of reinfection by coronavirus in Spain and has said that, from the information he knows, nor it can be affirmed that it is a reinfection, nor deny this possibility.
We will have to wait to carry out more studies to determine what has happened and, “if there are reinfections and they can be proven to exist”, this parameter will have to be considered, although, yes, all the studies indicate that “a reinfection would not transmit the virus”
“And if Spain can contribute, then better to contribute than hide it, obviously, as it has never been done,” he concluded.
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