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ARCHIVED - Coronavirus incidence rate in Spain drops below 100 for the first time in 10 months
28 per cent of the population have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19
For the first time since 12th August last year the 14-day coronavirus incidence rate in Spain dropped beneath the threshold of 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the latest daily update published by the Ministry of Health on Wednesday evening, the figure falling to 98.78 as the vaccination campaign progresses and the rate of infection slows in almost all of the country’s regions.
There is still a significant amount of variation among the regional data but the differences are gradually becoming smaller, and in only four regions is this principal indicator still above 100: Andalucía (180), La Rioja (172), the Basque Country (131) and Navarra (110). At the other end of the scale are Ceuta (38), the Comunidad Valenciana (39.6), Galicia (40.3), the Balearics (41.3) and Murcia (46.5).
Wednesday’s bulletin includes another 3,832 confirmed new cases – there have now been almost 3.75 million since the pandemic reached Spain early last year – and a further 36 Covid-related fatalities, bringing the official Ministry of Health death toll since February 2020 up to 80,615.
However, the number of Covid patients receiving hospital treatment fell slightly and now accounts for 2.55 per cent of all occupied beds, while in intensive care units the equivalent figure has dropped to 9.06 per cent.
Vaccination data
In the meantime, the number of people to have received the full dose of immunization vaccines in Spain has risen to just over 13.3 million, equating to 28 per cent of the population, and it is hoped that the figure will reach 15 million by the end of the week.
The 22.05 million to have received at least one vaccine dose represent 46.5 per cent of the entire population, and the Ministry of Health has announced that the age groups in which mass immunization is yet to begin (all of those aged under 40) may be targeted at the same time rather than sequentially in order to accelerate the process as much as possible.