The data on the evolution of the pandemic leave bad news this Sunday. The fluctuation of infections that has been experienced since the beginning of March has made raise the cumulative incidence to fourteen days to 102 cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants, a three-point climb in a single day. It was on March 9 when Cantabria managed to drop below 100 and, since then, it has remained at ninety-odd, with slight ups and downs. But today that barrier has already been crossed, which is more psychological than technical, since in the transmission indicators the region continues at ‘level 2’ of health alert (medium risk). But even further from the coveted ‘level 1’ – less than 50 cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants – which would indicate that the virus is under control. The cumulative incidence over seven days has also risen one point, to 51 cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants.
The reopening of the interiors of the hotel and catering establishments, shopping centers on weekends and the extension of the curfew were some of the decisions taken by the health authorities when Cantabria came out of the ‘high risk’ of virus transmission. And, as is happening in the country as a whole, the figures are not moving in the desired direction and the pandemic appears to be heading towards a fourth wave, with Easter just around the corner and the increase in mobility that is expected for those days despite the perimeter closures. Only yesterday Saturday, until midnight, there was 54 new infections in Cantabria, which are 16 more than the day before. And the number of coronavirus patients has also increased admitted to hospitals, which are 67 (five more in one day). Of them, 15 are battling the virus in the ICU (one more).
Yesterday no one died from covid and the number of victims remains the same (542 people). But the active cases in Cantabria are on the rise again, which are already 982. Subtracting the 67 who are hospitalized, at the moment there are 915 infected passing the virus in home quarantine.
As for the positive accumulated since the beginning of this health crisis, in Cantabria it reaches the figure of 26,743. Of these, 94% have been cured, a total of 25,219.
497,143 coronavirus detection tests have already been carried out in the region (85,524 per 100,000 inhabitants) and right now the positivity of these tests is at 3.9%.
The British variant “dominates” definitively in Cantabria and already accounts for 96% of cases
The British variant of the coronavirus, called B117, has prevailed in Cantabria over the original and already accounts for 96 percent of the total samples of contagions analyzed at random.
This was said this Sunday by the general director of Public Health, Reinhard Wallmann, in statements to RNE.
“The British variant is definitely dominating the casuistry with 96% of the cases detected this week,” he warned, highlighting that the latest scientific evidence on this strain indicates not only greater contagiousness, but also an increase in the number of hospitalizations and in lethality.
However, it has indicated that the Brazilian variant is controlled in Cantabria, where three cases were detected last week and around 90 contacts of those infected were monitored.
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