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ARCHIVED - Incidence rate triples amongst all age groups in Valencia region
From teens to octogenarians, figures show a threefold rise in 14-day cumulative incidence across the region's three provinces, including Alicante.
Whilst the biggest rise in cumulative incidence over the last three weeks has been amongst those under 29, data shows a threefold rise in all age groups as the Valencia region is immersed in a fifth wave of the pandemic - now dubbed the 'young wave'.
According to figures from the Ministry of Health, so far this month, the 14-day cumulative incidence per 100,000 people in each age bracket shows an almost identical evolution, and whilst new infections appeared to be more prevalent amongst young people at the start of July, the increase in cases has now become more generalised and the Delta variant more contagious.
A report carried out by researchers at the University of Oxford claims the prevalence of the strain of the Delta (or Indian) variant now exceeds 80 per cent in Spain, a figure which is estimated to be similar in the Valencian region.
A breakdown shows that in the age groups 10 to 19 and 20 to 29-years-old, the incidence rate has gone from 348 and 449 cases per 100,000 people respectively on July 1 to 1,016 and 1,290. But there has been a spike of the same rate amongst those aged 50 to 59 and 60 to 69, where the rates have climbed from 63 and 43 cases respectively to 191 and 159.
And of concern is the fact that in the latter two age groups, there are an estimated 200,000 people who have not yet been fully vaccinated, considered vital to prevent hospital saturation.
In total, more than 400,000 people over the age of 40 have not yet had both doses of vaccine, and 210,000 have not even had the first (16 per cent of the population).
The Valencian region's health department announced on Saturday it plans to administer 400,000 doses this week completing groups still waiting for the second dose, and begin vaccinating twenty somethings.
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