The accumulated incidence in the last 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants stands at 1,206.21, compared to 911.31 on Thursday, the last day surveyed. In the past two weeks, there were 572,355 infections.
However, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, gave a message of reassurance saying that “very high numbers of infections will be seen, but not hospitalizations.”
Sánchez asked in a statement to persevere in the strategy based on the application of a third dose of booster vaccine, personal protection and the use of face masks to avoid greater evils.
80% of the Spanish population over 12 years of age has the complete schedule of two injections and the Executive mobilized a thousand military personnel to track down those infected and another 600 troops to help in the vaccination campaign, which is one year old today. when 85 million doses were administered.
The government approved the mandatory use of chinstraps outdoors on Friday and left it up to their regional counterparts to approve any restrictions.
120 new deaths were added to today’s report, compared with 85 last Monday.
Up to 88,793 people with a positive diagnostic test have perished since the virus arrived in Spain, according to data collected by the health portfolio released by the Europa Press and ANSA news agencies.
In the last week 200 people died and there are currently 9,530 patients hospitalized throughout Spain, of which 1,715 are in intensive care.
The occupancy rate for beds stands at 7.69% and for extreme care beds at 18.26%, with a slight upward trend attributed to the Omicron variant, with supersonic expansion and very high transmissibility, although less deadly than its predecessor Delta, according to the opinion of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Between December 7 and 27, the autonomous communities carried out 2,230,127 diagnostic tests, of which 1,267,340 were PCR and 962,787 antigen tests, with an overall rate per 100,000 inhabitants of 4,742.31.
Meanwhile, the positivity rate stands at 17.94%, down from 14.65% on Thursday.
WHO recommends that this rate be below 5% to consider the spread of the virus as “controlled”.
Source From: Ambito
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