4 Dec, 2020 @ 10:36
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Spain’s COVID-19 incidence rate drops below 250 cases per 100,000 as it leaves ‘high risk’ category

Over 9,000 COVID-19 deaths recorded since start of pandemic in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain
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SPAIN has lowered its coronavirus incidence rate to 240.89 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

It demotes the country from the ‘very high risk’ category to the ‘high risk’ category, although it will unlikely hit its target of 25 cases per 100,000 people by Christmas.

Spain recorded 10,127 cases on Thursday, representing an increase on Wednesday’s figure and bringing the total number of infected to 1,675,902. 

Meanwhile some 254 people lost their lives between Wednesday and Thursday. 

Director of health emergencies Fernando Simon said last night that the evolution of the pandemic in the country has been in ‘continuous decline’ for almost four weeks. 

However he warned that the incidence rate of 240 cases per 100,000 people was still ‘much higher’ than goals set by the Government. 

In terms of pressure on the health service, some 10.53% of conventional hospital beds are currently occupied by coronavirus patients. 

In the intensive care units, that share increases to 25.28%, with ICUs finding it more difficult to ease pressure. 

“The ICUs are going down very slowly and one in four beds are still occupied by COVID,” said Simon, “We continue to have a lot of pressure… it is improving but there is still a lot of pressure.”

There are currently 13,063 coronavirus patients across the country’s hospitals, of which 2,440 are in intensive care. 

On Thursday a total of 1,543 COVID-19 sufferers were discharged. 

In the week between November 23 and 29, 891,188 diagnostic tests were carried out in Spain, with a positivity rate of 8.68%.

“We continue with a good diagnosis rate, 2,000 tests per inhabitant per week, but given the situation and that of the rest of Europe, in which practically all countries are beginning to stabilise the curve with higher accumulated incidences, we cannot drop the ball,” Simon added.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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