La variant micron marks the agenda of the health authorities. Minister Darias has recently stated, in fact, that we have not yet reached the peak of the sixth wave, a point that we will reach in the next few days after all the cases emerge after these holidays.
Despite being a less lethal face of the coronavirus Compared to what has been known so far, the contagion capacity of this new variant is greater and there is a danger of saturation of hospital services. Experts ask for prudence and more on these dates.
In Espaa, since the beginning of the pandemic and with the latest consolidated data, corresponding to yesterday, Tuesday, there have been a total of 6,785,286 diagnosed cases. In addition, 89,689 people have died due to coronavirus. On the other hand, a 90.3 percent of the population, 38,028,178 citizens, have the complete agenda vaccination.
Spain reduces quarantines from 10 to seven days for positives without symptoms
“The Public Health Commission unanimously agrees to modify the isolation period for people with positive notification of Diagnostic Tests for Active COVID-19 Infection. They must isolate 7 days from the current 10 days.”
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17:55 | The Valencian Community reaches a new maximum of daily infections by detecting 12,043 new cases since yesterday
The Valencian Community has registered 12,043 new cases of coronavirus this Wednesday, the highest number of positives in a single reported day of the entire pandemic, and thus surpasses the previous record of 11,822 infections last Friday. In addition, it adds 24 deaths, but the hospital pressure drops and there are 40 admitted and six ICU beds less than yesterday, according to the Ministry of Health. Valencian hospitals currently have 1,069 people admitted, 178 of them in the ICU.
17:00 | Aragn, Cantabria and Castilla y Len once again reach record data of daily infections
At least three communities continue to break records for daily infections due to the spread of the micron variant in the sixth wave of the pandemic. Aragn has reached a new record by notifying 6,739 new cases, 1,205 more than the previous day and six deaths. Cantabria also registers another maximum of daily infections, a total of 1,853, which brings the incidence to 14 days to 2,525 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The sixth wave also continues to break records in Castilla y Len, which adds 11,277 new coronavirus cases, the highest number in the entire pandemic, while the deaths in the last 24 hours have been eight. These three regions are joined by data from Andalusia, Catalonia, Galicia, Murcia, Navarra and La Rioja, which, although they have not reached maximum data, have raised the number of positives in these nine territories to almost 80,000 since yesterday. These figures indicate that the sixth wave of the pandemic has not yet reached the ceiling and that these days the infections caused by contacts and mobility are being known during the Christmas Eve and Christmas parties, according to the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, explained yesterday.
15:30 | Pas Vasco returns to mandatory masks in secondary school breaks
Basque students over 12 years of age who are in Secondary Education must use the mask again during recesses and outdoor activities organized by educational centers when they return to class from next Monday. This is one of the main novelties included in the update of the protocol that has been sent to schools from the Basque Department of Education to adapt the return to classes after the Christmas holidays with the current situation of the covid pandemic in Euskadi , where the last known accumulated incidence has reached a new record with 4,898.55 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days. Last October, Basque Secondary students were allowed to remove their masks during breaks and in outdoor activities organized by the centers, provided that an interpersonal distance of 1.2 meters was respected. As of Monday, the mask will be mandatory in those cases as well and will not be required for the intake of food and beverages and when carrying out intense physical activity outdoors. The only ones who are still exempt from the use of a mask in schools are those under 6 years of age, since Primary students will also have to continue using it regardless of the distance.
14:15 | Andalusia: Low incidence rate, with 7,388 cases and 12 deaths in the last day
Andaluca has recorded 7,388 new cases of covid-19 and twelve deaths from the disease in the last day, while yesterday, Tuesday, there were 10,551 cases and the same number of deaths, but the incidence rate has dropped for the first time in more than a month .
The decrease in the incidence rate has been 16 points and has been placed in 1,555.1 cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants in the last fourteen days.
14:00 | How long does it take to test micron positive for antigens?
These Christmases are days of many family gatherings. And with the virus rampant, it causes all the alerts to be few. Therefore, one of the more short-term solutions is to have an antigen test. But when do you have to do it? how If you trust all your family gatherings to the result of an antigen test, the best option is to have the test half an hour before meeting with the family. You will know exactly, just before removing the mask to eat and drink, if you are infected. Read the full news.
13:30 | Croatia presents the highest number of infections of the pandemic
Croatia registered in the last 24 hours the highest number of covid infections since the start of the pandemic with 8,587 cases, the Croatian prime minister reported today.
13:00 | Communities manage cancellations electronically
—Communities begin to manage sick leave electronically
12:30 | Coronavirus causes 35 million infected in India
India surpassed 35 million cases of coronavirus this Wednesday, submerged in a new spiral of daily infections, which have multiplied by six in less than a week and show the arrival of a third wave in the Asian country.
In the last seven days, cases in the country have gone from around 10,000 a day to 58,097 confirmed today in the last 24 hours by the Indian Ministry of Health, marking an accelerated rate of spread of the disease that coincides with the entry of the new micron variant.
12:00 | The Generalitat uses Tinder to encourage vaccination among young people
The Department of Health of the Generalitat has used the Tinder dating network to encourage vaccination among young people. The counselor has launched an initiative that simulates an appointment with the vaccine, similar to the one presented by the popular application.
11:30 | IHU, a new variant of the coronavirus detected in France
The coronavirus does not stop. When all the health authorities are pending to stop the wave of infections generated by micron, French researchers have detected a new variant, called IHU, which presents a surprising data: it contains 46 mutations, more than the current dominant strain of covid on the planet . Read the full news.
11:00 | The curve begins to descend in Catalua
The epidemic curve of the sixth wave has begun to decline in Catalonia, although we will have to wait a few days to see if a decrease in infections is consolidated, which continue to skyrocket with more than 133,000 in the last seven days, with a transmission speed that is slows down and a risk of regrowth still very high, but that is going down.
The number of visits by covid patients to outpatient clinics also decreased this Tuesday to 63,559, after breaking the absolute record on Monday, with 75,595, surpassing the previous one of 68,148 that was registered on October 26, 2020.
10:30 | Antonio Resines remains stable within gravity in the ICU of the Gregorio Maran Hospital
The actor Antonio Resines continues to be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the General University Hospital Gregorio Maran in Madrid after being infected with the coronavirus.
The 67-year-old Spanish interpreter has been in the ICU of the Madrid clinic for almost two weeks and his wife, Ana Prez-Lorente, wanted to issue a statement to explain the state of Resines. Read the full news.
10:00 | Vasile charges against Paz Padilla: “Let the denier shut up”
Paz Padilla has been in the spotlight for the past few days for her comments about the effectiveness of vaccines. In a viral video, the presenter and comedian stated that these drugs were useless and explained in a particular way the operation of the inoculation and the behavior of the variants of the coronavirus. Read the full news.
9:30 | Immunologists predict more infections but less covid disease by 2022
After micron, new variants will come but less aggressive and with less hospital impact because “that is the logical evolution of any virus.” This is how the president of the Spanish Society of Immunology (SEI), Marcos Lpez Hoyos, predicts that for 2022 he foresees “more infection but less disease.”
9:00 | Hipra, the Spanish vaccine, could be ready for the second quarter of 2022
The Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, has been optimistic about the evolution of the vaccine: “Hipra He has told us that the vaccine is showing good results against micron in the studies carried out so far. So if it was already effective against previous variants like delta, we now know that it has good resistance against the new variant. “
8:30 | “Novak Djokovic received no special treatment”: Australia justifies itself
The Australian authorities assured that they did not give special treatment to the world’s number one tennis player, the Serbian Novak Djokovic, who has refused to reveal if he has been vaccinated against covid, by granting him a medical exemption to defend his title at the Open de Australia. Read the full news.
8:00 | Cumulative incidence grows
The cumulative incidence at 14 days has risen, since the last count, a total of 138 points. Currently, Spain has 2,433.94 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a scenario that the health authorities do not like at all.
7:30 | Be positive
Covid-19 positives continue to accumulate in Barcelona. On this occasion, it is the president Joan Laporta who has been infected after having been in close positive contact with Ferran Torres during the presentation of the new Barça player.
Laporta was scheduled to be present at the team’s two trips to Andalusia this week, first in Linares in the Copa and the weekend in Granada. Read the full news.
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