Burgos exceeds 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and meets the three Illa criteria for perimeter closure
The capital of Burgos exceeds the incidence of 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days and meets the three Illa criteria for perimeter closure, agreed by the Ministry and the autonomous communities. The mayor of Burgos, Daniel de la Rosa, and his municipal team had been warning for several days of the constant growth in the detection of new cases of COVID-19. Since these criteria were approved, Burgos entered the list of cities that met two requirements: ICU occupancy of COVID patients greater than 35% in the community and the municipality's positivity rate greater than 10%.
The mayor of Burgos warns the neighbors: "If the situation does not improve in a few days they will force us to close the city"
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This weekend, Burgos has reached the third requirement for the perimeter closure: it has a cumulative incidence of 559 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a positivity of 29% and ICU patients in Castilla y León occupy 64% of the beds of pre-COVID critics.
The basic health areas with the highest incidence are Gamonal Antigua (785), Los Comuneros (764), Santa Clara (713) and Los Cubos (639), although San Agustín is also above the threshold of 500 cases per 100,000 ( 560), Cristóbal Acosta (560), García Lorca (537) and Las Huelgas (507 cases per 100,000 inhabitants). Below there are only three zones: Ignacio López Sáiz (434), José Luis Santamaría (354) and Gamonal Las Torres (294). There are currently 1,731 active cases of COVID-19, according to data from the Ministry of Transparency.
The mayor of Burgos had already warned this week and had published an informative bulletin: "If the situation does not improve in a few days they will force us to close the city". This growth in cases occurs 15 days after the Hereda San Pablo Burgos basketball team was declared champion of the FIBA Basketball Champions League. Most outbreaks have been in the family and social sphere.
In the last 14 days, 964 infected by PCR have been detected, of the 3,280 molecular detection tests carried out. This means that the level of positivity is almost three times the margin that Illa gave: 29% of the PCR have been positive. In addition, there are 15 patients in the ICU, in a unit in which before the pandemic there were 24 beds available. Now there are 53 beds available in the ICU, 37 occupied among COVID patients and with other pathologies.
In addition, in the Burgos Hospital Complex there are 716 beds available on the floor, of which 473 are already occupied. 81 of these patients have COVID-19. In the last 14 days, nine deaths have been reported from this acute respiratory disease.
The decision to close the perimeter must be made by the Junta de Castilla y León, as it did with León, Palencia or Salamanca and smaller municipalities such as San Andrés del Rabanedo and Miranda de Ebro.
The incidence increases in the rest of capitals
The incidence continues to rise in the rest of the capitals, although it remains relatively stable in Ávila, Soria, Valladolid and Zamora, and at the moment it has not been possible to stop the curve in the already confined capitals. León and Palencia have been confined since October 7, and the incidence is reaching its maximum in the month. Salamanca has only been in confinement for two days, and cases continue to climb.
By provinces, this is the situation: Ávila (incidence of 379 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and positivity of 20%), León (incidence of 750 and positivity of 35%), Palencia (incidence of 798 and positivity of 29%), Salamanca (incidence of 627 and positivity of 30%), Segovia (incidence of 301 and positivity of 18%), Soria (incidence of 149 and positivity of 12%), Valladolid (incidence of 407 and positivity of 23%) and Zamora (incidence of of 277 and positivity of 19%).