The incidence drops again to 735 cases and Health notifies 22,194 new infections
The incidence drops another 50 points, to 735.19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. It continues at 'very high' risk levels, according to the Health criteria, but the curve shows a downward trend with fewer and fewer daily infections. At the beginning of this month of February, the incidence rate stood at 2,694 cases, and now, three weeks later, that figure has dropped 2,000 points. Catalonia has not updated new cases this Tuesday.
Only two autonomous communities now register incidence rates above 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants: Galicia, with 1,194 cases, and Murcia, with 1,040. The regions that are at the bottom are Andalusia, with 419 cases; Castilla-La Mancha, with 500 points; and Madrid, which registers 524 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Daily infections drop to a minimum since December 10 of 30,0000 cases in one day, specifically the latest Health update adds 22,194 new infections. In total, since the start of the pandemic, 10,880,194 positives have been added in Spain. However, it should be noted that Catalonia has not updated new cases.
Hospital pressure continues to decline. The percentage of bed occupancy in hospitals decreases, as well as in ICUs, which remain at 'medium' range levels, according to Health criteria.
Regarding the deceased, 173 new deaths have been registered, although the Ministry has been pointing out in its report for days that these daily figures are not comparable with each other due to the delay in previous days of some autonomous communities, which now leads to gathering data from several days. Spain is already heading towards 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 since the coronavirus entered the country, and this Tuesday that figure stands at 98,635 deaths.
Organizations ask the Government to guarantee global access to the Hipra vaccine
Twenty organizations in the field of health demand that the Government impose conditions on the financing contracts for the Hipra vaccine so that the license is not exclusive to this firm and access to it is guaranteed, since the Executive "has invested millions of euros in its development".
Among the entities that have made this request in a letter sent to the President of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, are Salud por Derecho, Médicos del Mundo, the Association for Fair Access to Medication, the Collegiate Medical Organization, No Gracias, the Federation of Associations for the Defense of Public Health (FADSP), Doctors without Borders, Amnesty International, Oxfam Intermón, the Coordinator of Organizations for Development (CONGD) and the Right2Cure campaign.
