Coronavirus Update

Monday 19 April 2021

In Catalonia, the reproduction rate (or R0) has fallen from 1.32 to 1.19. The coronavirus epidemic is still in a regrowth phase, with every 100 infected people pass the virus to 119 others, increasing the epidemic by 19% every day.

The cumulative incidence rate of the coronavirus in 14 days has risen from 262.28 to 262.36 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. There have been 875 new infections and 20 more deaths registered in the last 24 hours. Today, there are 1,717 hospitalised patients, 38 more than yesterday. A total of 506 patients are in intensive care units, 11 more than yesterday.

In the last 24 hours Catalonia has vaccinated 535 people with their first, and fully immunised 29 people with their second vaccination against this disease. A total of 501,375 people (6.49% of the population) have received their scheduled two doses, while 20.36% (1,572,518) have been vaccinated with their first dose.

Sunday 18 April 2021

In Catalonia, the reproduction rate (or R0) has fallen from 1.38 to 1.32. The coronavirus epidemic is still in a regrowth phase, with every 100 infected people pass the virus to 132 others, increasing the epidemic by 32% every day.

The cumulative incidence rate of the coronavirus in 14 days has risen from 260.94 to 262.28 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. There have been 1,670 new infections and 17 more deaths registered in the last 24 hours. Today, there are 1,679 hospitalised patients, 75 more than yesterday. A total of 495 patients are in intensive care units, 12 less than yesterday.

In the last 24 hours Catalonia has vaccinated 6,288 people with their first, and fully immunised 1,257 people with their second vaccination against this disease. A total of 501,346 people (6.49% of the population) have received their scheduled two doses, while 20.38% (1,571,983) have been vaccinated with their first dose.

Saturday 17 April 2021

In Catalonia, the reproduction rate (or R0) has fallen from 1.39 to 1.38. The coronavirus epidemic is still in a regrowth phase, with every 100 infected people pass the virus to 138 others, increasing the epidemic by 38% every day.

The cumulative incidence rate of the coronavirus in 14 days has risen from 259.09 to 260.94 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. There have been 2,301 new infections and 34 more deaths registered in the last 24 hours. Today, there are 1,604 hospitalised patients, 68 less than yesterday. A total of 507 patients are in intensive care units, 7 more than yesterday.

In the last 24 hours Catalonia has vaccinated 51,624 people with their first, and fully immunised 14,744 people with their second vaccination against this disease. A total of 500,089 people (6.48% of the population) have received their scheduled two doses, while 20.28% (1,565,695) have been vaccinated with their first dose.

Friday 16 April 2021

The Ministry of Health for Spain has registered a further 10,598 new infections since yesterday, including 5,091 diagnosed in the last 24 hours. The total number of people infected since the start of the pandemic rises to 3,407,283.

The cumulative incidence rate (the number of cases diagnosed per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days) has risen, from 202.72 to 213.05.

The deaths from coronavirus registered in the last week total 285. There have been 99 new deaths in the last 24 hours. The total deaths in the pandemic rises to 76,981. The data exclude deaths in residences and those who had symptoms compatible with Covid-19 but did not undergo a diagnostic test.

This is the sixth consecutive week of no excess mortality in Spain, calculated by the European Mortality Monitoring Project.

After falling continuously since the start of the pandemic, the lethality of the virus saw a steady rise from 8 February 2021, followed by a decline from 26 March. The case fatality rate on 8 February was 2.084 deaths per 100 patients and today stands at 2.259.

There has been an increase of 64 in the number of coronavirus patients admitted to hospital. There are currently 9,788 patients admitted throughout Spain (9,724 yesterday) with 2,180 in intensive care units, 37 more than yesterday. There have been 1,161 admissions and 1,056 discharges in the last 24 hours. The occupancy rate for beds taken by coronavirus patients in Spain has risen from 7.76% to 7.79% and in intensive care units, from 21.39% to 21.71%.

Spain has fully immunised 75,164 people in the last 24 hours with their second vaccination against this disease. A total of 3,328,701 people (7.02% of the population) have received their scheduled two doses, while 18.98% (9,002,054) have received a single dose. A total of 12,330,755 doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered, with 445,670 (0.94% of the population) vaccinated in the last 24 hours.

In Catalonia, the coronavirus epidemic is in a regrowth phase, with the reproduction rate (or R0) rising from 1.35 to 1.39. Every 100 infected people pass the virus to 139 others, increasing the epidemic by 39% every day.

The cumulative incidence rate of the coronavirus in 14 days has risen from 256.68 to 259.09 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. There have been 2,035 new infections and 3 more deaths registered in the last 24 hours. Today, there are 1,672 hospitalised patients, 25 less than yesterday. A total of 500 patients are in intensive care units, 14 less than yesterday.

In the last 24 hours Catalonia has vaccinated 70,607 people with their first, and fully immunised 11,221 people with their second vaccination against this disease. A total of 485,345 people (6.29% of the population) have received their scheduled two doses, while 19.61% (1,514,071) have received a single dose.

Barcelona Coronavirus - daily updates and advice for visiting groups

UK Government Foreign Travel Advice Monday, April 19th, 2021: under current UK COVID-19 restrictions, you must stay at home (or in Wales, stay local). It is illegal to travel abroad for holidays.