The Ministry of Health announced yesterday that the fatality rate of coronavirus had fallen from 13 to 14% at the peak of the epidemic to the current level of 0.29%.
Since July 3 when the Ministry announced that statistics for the virus would not be updated over weekends there has been a leap in numbers on Mondays. Yesterday the 1,486 new confirmed cases referred to the previous 24 hours, however, the number of confirmed cases since Friday was actually 8,618 and the number of deaths during this period was 65.
Some 50 percent of the deaths were in Aragon (38) with Madrid (6) and Andalusia (6).
The majority of the cases in Aragon are in Zaragoza where 160 patients have been hospitalized in the last seven days.
Nationally 677 patients have been hospitalized during the past week and 46 of those were admitted to intensive care.
The accumulated incidence of the virus currently stands at 48.81 cases per 100,000 habitants although there are regional variations such as Aragon (239.98); the Basque country (97.88); Madrid (79.91) and Cataluña (71.13).
Contact with groups of people not living together accounts for the majority of the new contagions. Since the end of the State of Alarm there have been 950 clusters of contagions totaling almost 11,100 cases, which affect almost all of the different regions in Spain. Of these 675 remain active with more than 7,600 active cases.
Many of these clusters were the result of social contact, representing 35.6% and around 3,150 contagions. Of these family parties and private fiestas are highlighted (123 clusters and around 1,100 contagions) and 46 clusters are associated with pubs, bars and nocturnal venues accounting for more than 1,500 positive cases.
There have been more than five million PCR tests carried out during the epidemic and testing increased by seven percent last week reaching 47,300 daily. A high number of positives, some 60%, were asymptomatic.
