According to the regional Minister of Health, Jesús Aguirre, the sixth wave is not likely to end soon but rather there will be peaks and troughs.
Furthermore, he considers that as much as 80% of the Andalusian population will have been infected by the beginning of February.
He does not feel as optimistic as the Minister of Health for the Central Government, Carolina Darias, who stated that we have reached the peak of contagion or are close to it.
He also pointed out that the figures are not that trustworthy because many people are getting positive readings on self-testing kits and are not reporting it to their regional health authorities.
Yesterday there were a total of 17,548 new cases in 24 hours, which is 6,371 more than the previous Thursday. There were also 31 deaths within Andalucía which was three more than the previous 24-hour period.
This increase breaks the tendency of the last few days where the number of cases were steadily dropping, prompting Central-Government, Minister Darías to make her optimistic observation.
As for hospitals, at the moment there are 2,142 hospital cases (52 more than the previous day) of which 238 are being treated in the Intensive Care Unit.
He concluded by ruling out imposing new restrictions but will maintain the Covid-Certificate requirement.
Editorial comment: there only appears to be one true indication of how the contagion is going, and that is hospital occupation and deaths. The cases-per-100k indicator is no longer valid because of the self-testing going on. Even if there are people that test positive and do not report it, you also have tens of thousands of people who are infected or have been infected and not had any symptoms, thus being completely unaware of their condition.
(News: Andalucia)
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