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Date Published: 06/07/2022

ARCHIVED - New infections nearly double in a week: Valencia Covid update July 6

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There are 287 more Covid patients in hospitals in Alicante province and the rest of the region than seven days ago

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - New infections nearly double in a week: Valencia Covid update July 6

Experts are warning that Spain is entering its eighth wave of the Covid pandemic, having passed through the seventh largely unoticed, with daily infections and hospitalisations continue to climb once again.

As the professionals continue to debate whether or not this is the case, there is no denying that the most important health indicators are climbing steadily in the Valencia region, and over the last seven days, hospital admissions have doubled and new infections have skyrocketed.

As cases peak, Valencia's Ministry of Health has this week reopened walk-in vaccination points across the region throughout July in a bid to speed up the process of immunisation so that the entire population is fully inoculated.

"The aim is to make it easier for all those people who are waiting to receive a dose of the vaccine, either because they have had the disease or for any other reason, to go to any of the vaccination points to get a jab without an appointment," explained the Ministry.

Coronavirus cases

The regional Ministry of Health has confirmed 8,346 new cases since Friday July 1, almost double the 4,479 infections reported a week ago (also over a four-day period).

By provinces: 946 in Castellón (181,514 in total), 2,622 in Alicante (508,275 in total) and 4,778 in Valencia (795,654 in total).

Of these new cases, 4,068 are people over 60 years of age (again almost twice as many as the 2,210 reported on June 28): Of the new cases, 513 from Castellón, 1,294 from Alicante and 2,261 from Valencia.

Hospitalisations

There are currently 1,192 Covid patients in hospitals across the Valencia region, 287 more than last Tuesday, 41 of them in the ICU (six more): 153 in the province of Castellón, 1 in the ICU; 410 in the province of Alicante, 18 of them in the ICU; and 629 in the province of Valencia, 22 in the ICU.

Cumulative incidence

The 14-day cumulative incidence rate per 100,000 inhabitants amongst people over the age of 60 now stands at 715.29, below the national average of 996.25.

Fatalities

Nine deaths have been reported since Friday, all of which occurred within the last seven days – six men aged between 71 and 95 and three women aged between 87 and 98. This brings the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 9,547: 1,124 in the province of Castellón, 3,627 in the province of Alicante and 4,796 in the province of Valencia.

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