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The mortality rate, 6% in Vigo, 4 points less than the national average

The health area of ​​Vigo is close to one hundred deaths from coronavirus (95 until yesterday, one in four in Galicia) and close to 1,500 infected since the beginning of the crisis, but the fatality rate -percentage of deaths over the total number of registered cases- although it has grown significantly, it continues to be much lower than the average for Spain. In Galicia there is no division by provinces, but by health areas, and Vigo, which includes 26 local councils in the area, is around 6 percent of all cases (slightly more in the last two days due to the incidence in residences older). The neighboring area of ​​Pontevedra has a somewhat better rate, about 4 percent, so the provincial average is 5 percent.

To date in Spain there are more than 18,700 deaths in Spain and there are close to 190,000 those infected since they began to make records in the pandemic. The relationship between both parameters allows us to calculate the fatality rate, which with little variation during the last week in Spain stands at 10.46 deaths for every 100 infected. This data is four points less than the health area of ​​Vigo, which during the first month of the crisis maintained the lowest rate in Galicia and one of the lowest in Spain, not reaching 1 percent. Vigo is in the caboose in this statistic, along with the rest of Galicia, the Canary Islands and Córdoba and Cádiz.
Another way of evaluating the impact is the lethality with respect to the total population, where Vigo improves its good data. The whole of the areas of Vigo and Pontevedra has a rate of 11 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants (Vigo of 16). A Coruña, also 16 cases and Lugo, the best, six. Ourense is somewhat worse off, since it accounts for 26.4 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. Las Palmas, with 2.62 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, is the province with the best performance in this section.
With regard to active infected (sick), the health area of ​​Vigo is in the best conditions, with 1,085 cases registered until yesterday: they are less than those of Coruña and Ourense, despite the greater population of the Vigo area. Even that of Santiago is about to surpass in cases to the demarcation of Vigo. In Vigo and Pontevedra there are 220 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. In Ourense, 476 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, A Coruña in 293 and Lugo 216.

Leon, worse still than Madrid

The highest proportion of deaths in Spain has occurred especially in Madrid and its surroundings, in the Mediterranean area, but also in León, which together with Cuenca are the only ones that exceed 15 deaths per 100 infected, being two of the 17 provinces that exceed 10% in the fatality rate.
The disease has also caused damage in Cáceres, where the rate stands at 14.81% after an incidence of the virus that contrasts notably with Badajoz, where the spread of the virus does not even reach half.
Also in Madrid, the epicenter of this health crisis, the fatality rate is above the average (13.67%), somewhat below Toledo (14.27%), and above Huesca, Guadalajara, Girona, Zamora , Ciudad Real, Zaragoza, Burgos, Salamanca, Alicante, Barcelona, ​​Teruel and Ávila, the other territories in which the fatality rate is double digits.
Like the incidence, which is measured by the number of infections depending on the population, with 24 provinces that present a lower ratio although, nevertheless, it continues below the Spanish average, with just over 38 deaths for each 100,000 inhabitants.
The worst stopped territory at the moment is Ciudad Real, the only one in which the record has three digits, being 131 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, while Madrid, Segovia and Segovia follow in this ranking, ranking between 98 and 94 deaths. n

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