ARCHIVED - Considerable fall in new covid cases across Murcia Region this weekend

The number of patients receiving hospital care is slowly falling

Throughout the last three days the number of new coronavirus cases reported in the Murcia region has continued to fall, most notably on Monday.

The figures are always reported on the following day, so the data published on Monday relate to the 24 hour period concluding at midnight on Sunday. Monday figures are usually non-representative of the remainder of the week as less staff work and there is little PCR testing activity on a Sunday, but this week there were less than 1,000 PCR tests carried out so the number of new cases is exceptionally low this Monday.

Number of new cases reported during the last three days:

Monday: 38
9 cases correspond to the municipality of Cartagena, 4 to Murcia, 3 to Archena, and 3 to Yecla.

Sunday: 161. 31 correspond to the municipality of Totana, 23 to Murcia, 17 to Cartagena, 13 to Torre Pacheco, 12 to Lorca, 12 to Yecla, 8 to Cieza, 7 to Jumilla, and 5 to Alhama de Murcia.

Saturday: 216. 39 correspond to the municipality of Murcia, 34 to Lorca, 24 to Cartagena, 18 to Torre Pacheco, 11 to Águilas, 8 to Los Alcázares, 7 to San Javier, 6 to Archena, 6 to Mazarrón, 6 to Molina de Segura, and 6 to Yecla.

Total number of cases reported to date: 53,729
Number of active cases in the region at the moment: 5,706; this is now less than half the level of a month ago.

Fatalities:
Total number of fatalities to date; 605
Monday: 1; an 85 year old female from Yecla.
Sunday: 3; three females, aged 72, 89 and 94, two from Murcia and one from Lorca.
Saturday: 5; 2 females and 3 males aged 66, 80, 80, 81 and 99, two from Cartagena and the remainder from Jumilla, Murcia and Lorca.

Hospitalisations:
The number of patients hospitalised with more severe cases of coronavirus has continued to fall over the weekend and as of Monday there were 371 Covid-19 patients in the region’s hospitals, and 90 in intensive care. 5,335 patients remained in home isolation with mild symptoms, all of these totals falling from last week.

Recoveries; By Monday the figure of patients given the all-clear had risen to 45,712.

AI rate;
Average rate for the Region of Murcia over 7 days; 101
Average rate for the Region of Murcia over 14 days; 267

14 day rate: the worst affected municipalities during the last 14 days are Yecla with 737 cases per 100,000 of population, Aledo with 684, Totana with 684,Los Alcázares with 681, Torre Pacheco with 541 and San Javier with 507.

7 day rate: the worst affected municipalities during the last 7 days are Albudeite with 437 cases per 100,000 of population, Los Alcázares 353, Aledo 293, Yecla 255, Calasparra 235, Torre Pacheco 235, Totana 234, Puerto Lumbreras 201, San Javier 181.