The cumulative incidence of COVID-19 is 1,225.28 cases per 100,000 inhabitants at 14 days, according to the latest report of the Ministry of Health, which measures the incidence in those over 60 years. The increase in infections is skyrocketing in recent weeks, partly due to the appearance of two omni-variants: […]
The uncontrolled expansion of the new variants BA.4 and BA.5 -more contagious and that escape the immunity of the vaccine- has provoked a curious phenomenon with antigen tests as protagonists: delayed positivity. Not always a negative means that you are not infected with covid. The new variants are generating that, […]
In the midst of the seventh wave of coronavirus, and with the contagions triggered throughout Europe, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has just met to assess the situation. The Community body remains alert for the increase in positive covid, which coincides with the beginning of summer, a stage in which […]
We now have a cumulative incidence of more than 1,100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, it has grown 139 points in three days. To understand this ‘explosion’ of contagions, we must take into account the variants that are circulating right now. As the virus “changes”, it is spreading to more and […]
This new variant was first detected in India and has since spread to 10 other countries. Although it does not yet have an official name, some members of the scientific community call this subvariant of the Omicron the BA 2.75 or centaurus. At the moment, there is not enough evidence […]
As more people flock to large-scale travel and events, COVID infections are on the rise in Europe. So says the World Health Organization (WHO). ” We’re seeing the much more intense wave of the disease coming back through Europe,” says Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergency Program. […]
Coronavirus infections are skyrocketing in Spain just as the holidays begin. Sanidad calls for prudence in the face of an upturn that comes a few days from the Pride or San Fermin festivities and recommends the use of a mask to protect the elderly. The Head of Sanidad has called […]
The new variants of the coronavirus have given way to the so-called ‘new Covid-22’, which has caused a notable increase in the number of people infected. The rise in infections has soared to 841 cases among those over 59. Also of concern is the rise in hospital occupancy, with a […]
The epidemiologist Oriol Mitjá, advisor on coronavirus of the autonomous government of Catalonia, has warned about a new wave after the daily increases in the cumulative incidence and relaxation of restrictions and behavior of people. The pandemic has not yet ended, contagions continue to increase and according to the latest […]
In Spain, coronavirus infections are on the rise again and this is having a direct effect in pharmacies. Sales of antigen tests are up again and some pharmacists are warning that they are running out of stock, as happened at the beginning of the sixth wave. Antigen sales have doubled […]
About 22,000 health facilities suffer from persistent COVID-19. More than half continue to suffer after six months of discharge, and one in five is still on work leave. These are data from the union of CSIF officials that claims that the persistent coronavirus is declared an occupational disease. The first […]
Considering coronavirus as a flu is a reality with the change of protocol of action against the virus and the end of the obligatory use of the mask indoors. The measure that ends with the obligatory masks has been approved this Tuesday in the Congress of Deputies and has entered […]
