Coronavirus - 20 January 2022
his is the rolling coronavirus story for 20 January 2022
Stats for the last 24 hours - 2391 more cases and 4 more deaths
https://www.diariodealmeria.es/almeria/Almeria-muertos-racha-verano-pasado_0_1649235603.html
Google translation:
Almería adds 12 deaths in three days, the worst streak since last summer
Health notifies four more deaths this Thursday and there are already 27 this January
Data matters. And for worse. The Health delegate of the Board warned three days ago that for today we would enter a plateau period, perhaps reaching a ceiling and with stabilized cases. But in the end, not even remotely. Reality comes before predictions. This Thursday four new deaths have been reported and there are already 12 in the last three days and 27 so far this month. Since last August the number of deaths had not been so high.
The number of deaths seemed to plateau when the province exceeded 80% of people with a complete vaccination schedule. In fact, the covid kills ten times less in Almería since there is 80% of the population vaccinated. But this week, the figures have returned to the past.
The number of positives also remains high. In fact, from the 1,200 on Thursday it has gone to the 2,391 notified this Thursday. Practically double.
Nor can we speak of positive data in incidence. The figure had dropped by more than fifty points from Tuesday to Thursday. But it was an oasis. The latest data offered by the Ministry of Health and Family in Almeria place an incidence of 2,406.0 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Or what is the same, 100 points more than yesterday.
Even so, and in terms of deaths, since the first case of covid-19 was detected in Almería, in a young man from Italy, until the first vaccines were given on December 27, 2020, 21,110 cases were detected in the Province. Of them, according to the data published by the Junta de Andalucía, 285 died. This means that the lethality of the virus in that period was 1.35%, that is, more than one person in every 100 infected died.
The new data regarding infections no longer make the statements made by the Health delegate last Tuesday so valid. Juan de la Cruz Belmonte explained that the number of new positives for covid-19 has stabilized after the province has entered a "plateau" with 1,565 cases on Tuesday (and 1,203 on Wednesday), which "was not a exponential rise like last week. But the more than two thousand cases this Thursday question his words.
“Deaths are the most painful and what most involves us in remembering security measures,” he explains about the almost one thousand deaths caused in Almería by covid so far. "People often die because they are not vaccinated," he adds.
Covid cancellations in schools
"We are having problems in that the interims do not accept these casualties because they are of very short duration. Sometimes we call, the interim joins and at the same time the incumbent. So the interim one day is the same as the duration." That is the reality of the covid casualties of teachers in Almería according to the territorial delegate of Education and Sports of the Junta de Andalucía in Almería, Antonio Jiménez
Jiménez assures that a great job is being carried out in the centers "and from the Board we are always in contact with them". The delegate explains that human resources works every day to cover the most urgent casualties. "I have to thank human resources for the great job they're doing," he explains.
Regarding the number of casualties due to coronavirus that there are currently in the province, Belmonte does not dare to give data: "We do not know real figures because first of all the centers are the ones that do the first filtering. We do not want to enter into a war of figures It is true that we are going through a difficult time, but at this point last year we had 170 classrooms closed and this year one".
For the delegate it is positive that the classes can be offered in the school: "Fortunately we can carry out face-to-face sessions in the classrooms, which is something fundamental. In the classrooms certain things are worked on that cannot be worked on the screen of a computer".
In general terms, Jiménez explains that "last year we passed the course with honors." However, he states that this has been "a quiet course until December but since then it has been complicated." As for casualties (not covid), "we have made two appeals, in the first we covered around 100 casualties between vacancies and substitutions, in the second 157 and in the one that came out yesterday, around 40 vacancies," he explains.
Almería Province now has 983 deaths (4 more than the last value)
Almeria Province now has 2405.9 cases (approximately 104 more than the last value) per 100,000 inhabitants based on the 14 day average (red for increase; blue for decrease)
Poniente Region now has 2019.5 cases (approximately 116 more than the last value) per 100,000 inhabitants based on the 14 day average (red for increase; blue for decrease)
El Ejido now has 2036.8 cases (approximately 159 more than the last value) per 100,000 inhabitants based on the 14 day average (red for increase; blue for decrease)
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