In the final weeks Extremadura has given a radical flip to its epidemiological scenario. The group has gone from occupying one in all the high positions in Europe to having the lowest in the nation in only one month.
This Tuesday, February 23, Extremadura has registered the lowest gathered incidence of coronavirus instances in Spain, with a price of 96 instances per 100,000 inhabitants in the final 14 days in contrast to a nationwide common of 235.84.
The information is 15 instances lower than the one it had a month in the past. On January 21, the group registered a 14-day AI of 1,467.53 instances per 100,000 inhabitants. That week Extremadura was the ninth European area with the highest price, though in that ‘high10’ there have been additionally different Spanish communities equivalent to Valencia, the Area of Murcia and Castilla-La Mancha, as recorded by the European Middle for Illness Prevention and Management (ECDC ).
Enhancements in different key indicators
The discount in instances in Extremadura has been accompanied by the enchancment of different epidemiological indicators, equivalent to the proportion of occupancy of ICU beds, which has been diminished to lower than half in the final month. The area has gone from having 45.75% of its ICUs occupied to utilizing 18.87% with instances of coronavirus between January 25 and February 23.
One other good piece of data is the positivity price of the checks which are carried out, which has dropped from 18.30% to 5.39% in the identical interval, regardless of the indisputable fact that the variety of checks has been diminished to one third.
Measures in opposition to the pandemic
Extremadura is one in all the solely 4 autonomies which have lifted the perimeter closures collectively with Madrid, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, after on February 19 the Junta lifted the mobility restrictions in the 22 municipalities in which this measure was nonetheless in power. Now, the group is debating the risk of delaying the curfew by one hour, set at 22:00.
Gregorio Montes, professor of Public Well being at the College of Extremadura and head of the Preventive Drugs Service at the College Hospital of Badajoz, agrees that the change has been radical. “Now we have gone from the first to the final,” he says. For the knowledgeable, the restrictions imposed by the group have had a vast impact.
“It was introduced for Christmas that they have been going to permit household conferences after which they realized that it had been a mistake, however it was too late as a result of the individuals who have been pondering of coming to see their kin have been already right here,” he summarizes. “It has taken a lot to cut back these figures. It was paradoxical how Extremadura, which had been one in all the autonomous communities that had had the least incidence in each the first and second waves, we discovered such excessive charges in this third wave. However now, it has been a shocking change and this could serve for instance for the others ”.
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