The forecasts that some political leaders poured out at the beginning of last week begin to materialize.
This Tuesday, the cumulative incidence in the last 14 days on the population over 60 years of age has stood at 1,018 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the Coordination Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES). This confirms the downward trend of the incidence curve, whose maximum peak took place on July 8 (1,225 cases).
The number of coronavirus cases detected daily also presents a downward trend; while on July 8 the figure showed 83,613 new cases, those on Tuesday were exactly half (41,683), although it must be borne in mind that the most recent figures are not yet final.
The territories that currently have the highest incidence are La Rioja, with more than 2,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, Ceuta (1,924) and Cantabria (1,747). In contrast, Andalusia (399), the Balearic Islands (755) and Catalonia (828) are the ones with the lowest incidence.
For her part, the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, has assured that coronavirus infections in Spain continue on a “downward” trend in all indicators, although she has made a call for a “culture of care”.
BA.5 continues its expansion
Another of the most outstanding conclusions that allow extracting the data from this week published by the CCAES is that there is no trace of the feared and mediatic Centauro variant in recent days.
However, the data is updated until week 26 (until July 3), so the information must be interpreted with caution.
According to these, the Ómicron variant represents a percentage of 98% of the samples analyzed. And among the different lineages of this variant, BA.5 is the most frequent (75%) followed by BA.2, which continues to decrease and represents between 0 and 16.7% of the samples. Despite the fact that dozens of subvariants appear in the long list of the CCAES, the presence of Centauro has not yet been verified in any territory.
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