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ARCHIVED - 38,118 new cases and 513 deaths from COVID-19 on Friday across Spain
The accumulated incidence rate fell to 886 over 14 days
The Spanish Ministry of Health reported 38,118 new cases and 513 deaths from COVID-19 on Friday 30th January, which is a slight improvement in the coronavirus situation in Spain, albeit only a very slight one.
The cumulative incidence rate has fallen slightly to 886 cases per 100,000, which although reflecting a stabilisation in the number of new cases diagnosed in Spain is still way above a level considered to be acceptable and remains at the top of the levels in Europe.
For two weeks, the country has been reporting around 40,000 new infections a day, and although numbers are not increasing above this level, pointing to some sort of stabilisation, the 38,118 new cases of covid-19 diagnosed this Friday are still 3,000 higher than were diagnosed on Thursday, so it is difficult to say with any degree of certainty whether the peak has been reached for this third wave or not, although there are certainly signs of stabilisation.
The latest additions bring the total number of cases diagnosed by PCR test to date up to 2,743,119 although the actual number of infected is believed to have topped six million people according to sampling by the INE, the majority of whom have been asymptomatic and have never been detected.
The number of deaths remains very high; 513 deaths were confirmed, concluding the blackest week of the pandemic since April last year, with more than 2,500 deaths in seven days.
The accumulated incidence rate has started slowly subsiding and closed Friday at 886 cases per 100,000 inhabitants across 14 days, three points lower than on Thursday and 13 less than on Wednesday. But the situation in the autonomous regions shows some regions struggling, with the Valencian Region heading up the regional rates at 1,431.28 cases per 100,000 of population and six other regions with more than a thousand cases: La Rioja, Murcia, Melilla, Extremadura, Castilla y León and Castilla-La Mancha. All of the other regions, except the Canary Islands, remain well above the 250 cases level which is considered to be 'extreme risk'.
The latest European data from the ECDC European centre for Disease Prevention and Control illustrates how high the numbers are in Spain compared to much of Europe; the data is latent and was last updated on Wednesday and at that point Portugal had the worst figures in Europe with 1429 cases per 100,000, for which reason the border with Spain is closing from today for a 2 week period, the rate for Spain was 1026, followed by the Czech Republic at 981. France has a rate of 403, which is in the ascent, Italy 315, Germany 265, Poland 231,Netherlands 431, Belgium 252,Sweden 483,Denmark 216,Ireland 814,Norway 105, Finland 72,Greece 67.
Number of new cases in Spain; Ministry of Health
Hospital situation in Spain:
There are 30,804 patients hospitalised with coronavirus across Spain at the moment, giving an occupancy of 24%.
But in intensive care units there is intense pressure, with an occupancy of 43.95% on Friday, a figure which continues to slowly rise. On Thursday the figure was 42.84%, but it must be highlighted that the calculation for ICU beds does include beds which can be used for ICU, but which are not necessarily used for ICU throughout the year. An illustration of this is that in Murcia the current occupancy of ICU beds is 140% according to the regional health authority, as all beds habitually allocated for ICU use are full, and beds normally allocated for surgical recovery are being used for ICU patients. However, these official figures produced by the Ministry only show ICU occupany in Murcia as being at 35.66%, a figure which in no way reflects the current crisis within the Murcian health system.
In total, 4,608 people are admitted to the ICUs of Spanish hospitals.
Although all regions are under pressure, the highest rate is the Valencia Region in which the pandemic is recognised as being out of control, which has 63% occupancy of ICU beds, although in reality, all of the normal ICU beds in the region are full and patients are being treated in three field hospitals set up outside the principal hospitals of each of the three provinces in the region.
Castilla la Mancha, Castilla y León, Catalunya, Madrid and La Rioja all exceed 50% ICU occupancy.
The presence of the British strain, belived to be more contagious than the existing dominant variants, continues to generate uncertainty and concern. The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, said on Friday that 350 cases of this variant have already been confirmed, but estimated that this variant may already represent between 5 and 10% of the total cases in the country, a figure which is expected to continue rising.
On Friday the Ministry also revealed that since the beginning of the pandemic, 118,063 health professionals have been infected and 8,416 are currently on leave with coronavirus.
Obviously, the way forward is to rack up the vaccinations programme, but Spain continues to suffer from a lack of vaccines due to supply shortages throughout Europe, a topic which has been in the news all week.
On Friday the European Medicines Agency (EMA) gave the green light to the AstraZeneca vaccine, the Novavax vaccine also published results showing almost 90% effectivity against the virus, although its response is slightly lower for the British strain, which could become the main one and the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies published results demonstrating 72% protection in a single dose in the ENSEMBLE trial in the United States and 66% overall to prevent moderate to severe COVID-19, 28 days after immunization.
Overall, with all of the 17 regions of Spain imposing increasingly harsher restrictions, the third wave of the pandemic appears to be being slowly brought under control, but the regional governments are keen to maintain restrictions for the next few weeks in order to bring the rates down considerably before considering any relaxation in the measures imposed.
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