Catalonia has not registered no deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours, a circumstance that did not occur since last May 31 and that since the beginning of the epidemic only the July 5 of last year.
Epidemiological data and the hospital situation continue to improve in Catalonia, although in the last 24 hours they have been reported 1,465 new infected, compared to only 759 the day before, and no deceased (one on Saturday). In addition, the number of patients admitted to hospitals like those who are seriously ill in intensive care units.
According to the data updated this Sunday by the Department of Health, today there is a total of 590 patients with coronavirus admitted in Catalan hospitals, three less than yesterday, of which 205 They are in the ICU, 15 less than the day before.
The risk of re-outbreak of the pandemic (EPG), which measures its potential growth, is today 105 points, three less than yesterday, and it is getting closer and closer to achieving lower than 100, the threshold that indicates high risk and goes to moderate risk.
The velocity of propagation (Rt), which indicates the speed at which the virus reproduces, has dropped today one hundredth and is 1.03 points, that is to say, that every 100 infected infect an average of 103 people, which indicates that there is community spread of the virus.
The cumulative incidence cases per 100,000 inhabitants at 14 days (IA14) has dropped to 102, two cases less than yesterday, while the positivity of PCR and antigen tests has dropped 11 hundredths and has been placed in the 3,55%, below the 5% that the World Health Organization (WHO) considers as a threshold to control the epidemic.
Since the start of the pandemic, they have been infected 689,187 Catalans and others have died 22.203 by coronavirus.
Vaccination
The vaccine It is responsible for the pandemic that has been subsiding for weeks. In Catalonia they have a dose of the vaccine 3.013.982 people already (45.6% of those over 16 years of age) and, of these, a total of 1.765.461 (26.5% of those over 16 years of age) have the full agenda (two doses in the case of Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca and one in the case of Janssen).
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The one that most of the over 60 years are, at least, partially protected is what is causing both hospital and ucis admissions to decline. Also, as of this Monday Salut begins to vaccinate the 45 to 49 age group. They will be named Pfizer, Moderna or Janssen, since AstraZeneca is only indicated, in Spain, for those over 60 years of age.
What worries the authorities most at this time is the appearance of new variants, such as India and South Africa, which although in Catalonia are only present, for now, in 3% or 4% of cases, they are already displacing the majority since February, which is the English.
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