On December 30, 2020, the first COVID vaccine was inoculated in the province. A resident of the City of Senior Marriages who was then 100 years old was the first to receive the first dose and began a halo of hope to end the pandemic. In the first year, with the two doses, and the autumn booster, the effectiveness of the company’s joint effort was demonstrated and this is indicated by data from the National Institute of Statistics, which indicate that deaths from COVID have been reduced by a third in 2021. Specifically, according to data on last year’s causes of death, published yesterday, it went from 2,040, between confirmed and suspected in 2020, to 607 last year. A fact that, despite everything, continues to leave the new virus as the main cause of death in the province, reducing its mortality.
After COVID, cerebrovascular diseases, such as embolisms or thrombosis, have become the second leading cause of death. This position was occupied in previous years by respiratory and cardiac diseases, understood as those not due to a heart attack, pneumonia or flu. In fact, other heart diseases are the third leading cause of death, with 288 deaths. Instead, we need to get to the fourth cause of death to find a tumor, that of the trachea, bronchi and lung, with 279 deaths.
Last year’s data places 2021 as the third with the highest number of deaths, 5,693, behind the tragic 2020, in which 7,321 deaths had to be regretted, and 2017, in which 5,744 people lost their lives in Ciudad Real.
It should be borne in mind that beyond COVID as the main cause, there are differences between the sexes. For example, more men than women die of lung cancer, 233 out of 46, as well as chronic respiratory diseases, 155 out of 33. This is the result of gender differences in access to tobacco and the diseases associated with tobacco use. Meanwhile, more women die from strokes, 188 to 149. In fact, 2,917 more men die than 2,776 women.
fewer suicides
Of the 5,693 deaths this year, only 3.5 percent were from non-natural causes, a similar rate to the previous year. In total, there were 197 deaths, of which 68 due to accidental falls, according to data published by the National Institute of Statistics. Followed by 47 suicides or self-harms, with a great differentiation of sex, 38 men and nine women. It is a fact that while it grows all over the country, it falls in the provinces. In the year of COVID, 54 people took their own lives after four exercises in which the number of autolytic deaths increased. The third unnatural cause of death is drowning, with 30, also with a large gender difference, with eleven men and 19 women suffocating accidentally.
