Despite the high vaccination rate, intensive care units are filling capacity.
Spain returns to high risk for coronavirus, with 305 incidence cases per 100,000 inhabitants in fourteen days, and with intensive care units with increasing pressure, in some cases to 20% despite the high vaccination rate, which is close to 90% of the target population with the full regimen.
The Ministry of Health notified this Thursday 26,412 new infections since Tuesday, since yesterday the data were not updated because it was a holiday in Spain and adds 53,220 cases after the long holiday bridge in December, which began on Saturday 4 and ended yesterday.
During those holidays, in which there was great mobility between different provinces, the daily increase in incidence was between 10 and 15 points and although the national average is 305 cases, there are two regions that double it, Navarra (956) and the Basque Country (757), both in northern Spain.
Regarding the deceased, a total of 162 deaths were recorded during the bridge (84 in the last two days).
In this context of increase in the transmission of the coronavirus in the sixth wave of Spain, since December 1, the average occupancy in intensive care units went from 8% to 11.3% on average, although there are regions that exceed the 15%, including Catalonia (20.2%) and the Basque Country (17.3%), well above the recommended threshold of 5%.
Regarding the incidence, they stand out, above the average, the 533 cases in the age group of children under 11 years of age, who so far have not been vaccinated as they are outside the initial target population.
To stop the transmission of the virus in this age group, vaccination for them will begin on the 15th. (I)
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