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ARCHIVED - Hospitalisations maintain a gradual descent and only 110 new cases; Murcia Covid 25th February
There were eight fatalities within the latest 24 hour period
The slow descent in the number of patients receiving hospital treatment for Covid-19 in the hospitals of the Region of Murcia continued during the latest 24 hour period, with the total number of covid patients in hospitals falling by 26 to 286 and the total in intensive care units to 89.
This is the first time that this total has dropped below the 300 mark since the beginning of January and represents a reduction of more than a third during the last week.
Data at a glance as reported on Thursday:
New positive cases reported in the last 24 hours: 143
Confirmed cases since the beginning of the outbreak; 105,583
Total number of active cases: 1,323
Patients in home isolation with mild symptoms: 1,011
Total number of hospitalisations: 312
Total number in ICU intensive care units : 92
Total cured: 102,820
Total deaths: 1,440
Testing: total of 896,603 PCR and antigen tests and 99,360 serological tests to date
110 new cases have been diagnosed as positive from amongst the 2,877 PCR tests carried out yesterday, taking the total number of active cases in the region to 1,330.
Image shows number of cases (top) and hospitalisations (below), both graphs clearly showing the improving situation in the region
Of the 110 new cases, 14 correspond to the municipality of Murcia, 13 to San Pedro del Pinatar, 13 to Torre Pacheco, 8 to Cartagena, 7 to Cieza, 7 to Lorca, 6 to San Javier, 4 to Caravaca de la Cruz, 4 to Molina de Segura, and 4 to Totana , with the remainder spread around the region in smaller quantities.
These new cases change the accumulated incidence totals again, and as of Thursday (February 25), the seven day rate in Murcia had fallen to 50 cases per 100,000 and the 14 day rate to 122 per 100,000.
Over seven days Ulea remains the worst-performing municipality in the region with 228 cases per 100,000, followed by Librilla on 188. San Pedro del Pinatar has started to show more strongly this week and is now in third position with 184 cases per 100,000. Cieza has 165, and Alhama de Murcia, which has been re-confined this week, now has 113, with Fuente Álamo coming up next with 90 cases per 100,000.
Fatalities: During the last 24 hours a further eight fatalities have been confirmed, the five men and three women aged 71, 87, 97, 93, 60, 89, 57 and 79.
Three of the deceased were from Murcia city, two from Cartagena and the remainder from Águilas , Abarán and Ulea. Their deaths bring the total of deceased to date to 1,448.
By now, these fatalities have almost ceased being people and become statistics, as we are now so accustomed to the daily deaths that they almost fail to register.
Today marks exactly a year since the first case was diagnosed in a Madrid hospital, and here we are a year later still trying to bring the pandemic under control.
The regional director for Europe of the World Health Organization (WHO) Hans Henri P. Kluge, warned today that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, "continues to spread at very high rates in all of Europe ", despite the reduction in positives in recent weeks. At a press conference this Thursday from Copenhagen (Denmark), Kluge said that nearly 38 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Europe, and 850,000 deaths since the pandemic began. However, and for the second week in a row, less than a million new cases have been reported, because "in the last month, countries have applied new measures to stop transmission."
He warned that "the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to spread at very high rates throughout Europe, with two worrisome variants that continue to displace other strains, increase their reach and challenge us to continue doing more."
Certainly the regional government seems to be relaxing restrictions broadly at the moment, but there are still a high number of cases undetected amongst the population, so although it’s tempting to head for the bar and grab a beer, care should be exercised!