Nearly 96% of new Covid cases do not need hospital treatment
Tuesday, September 1, 2020 @ 3:17 PM
AS SPAIN and the rest of the world waits with bated breath for a widely-available and effective Covid-19 vaccine, health ministry figures may help to put some minds at rest: Even though the number of cases in the country has risen by 78% this summer since lockdown ended, only 4.43% have had to go to hospital, and only 7.1% of these have needed to be admitted to intensive care.
According to data released by minister Salvador Illa's department, as at Friday, the number of 'positives' registered in the previous two months was 193,014 – partly through more widespread PCR-testing and manual contact-tracing that enabled the medical service to get to people who had been near a Coronavirus patient before they displayed symptoms.
Of these, 8,557 have had to go to hospital, meaning admissions have only risen by 6.85% in two months, and the mortality rate is 688, having risen by 2.43%.
Effectively, 95.6% of diagnosed cases since the end of lockdown have not needed in-patient treatment and have been in self-isolation at home.
And 99.64% of those diagnosed in the last two months have survived, since the death rate has been just 0.36%.
The 193,014 cases registered in summer, after June 21 when the State of Alarm was declared over, represent 73.37% of the total all year – currently 439,286.
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