Coronavirus in Spain, today: last hour of COVID, restrictions and Omicron, direct

Nike, the company of sports material, has been serious with the denialists and has decided to fire the unaccoured employees.They have been told by mail that "they do not comply with the company's policy."That mail would affect 120 of the 14,000 workers of that headquarters.It seems that the idea has liked, because also the Sportswear Brand Columbia has already announced that it will fire the unvaccinated ones next month.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that this will not necessarily be good news or see the light at the end of the tunnel.As recalled, WHO's health emergency director Mike Ryan, the goal is "that no one has to die" by COVID-19."People talk about pandemic versus endemic," he said, remembering that malaria and HIV, both endemic diseases, kill hundreds of thousands of people: "endemic in themselves does not mean good, endemic it only means that it is here forever", has explained.

As explained by the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, the "minor gravity" that Spain has registered in the "wave with the highest registered incidence" has made hospital occupation "has been maintained, at least, equal, or even below thatthat registered on this same date in 2021 ".However, she has warned: "Given the volume of cases, the occupation percentages are high and represent an important overload. In increasingly dominant omicron. It represents 70% according to the territories."

The injection of the third dose of the COVID vaccine makes the number of antibodies grow in front of the coronavirus both in people who suffered contagion and in people who have not suffered it.This has been exposed by the first results of a study carried out at the Carlos III Institute, which adds that this reinforcement dose also effective for the omicron variant.

Spain has recorded 82 more hospitalizations for COVID on Wednesday than the previous day.Right now, the plant occupation rate rises very slightly to 40.04 points, while there are 15.25% of beds occupied by patients with coronavirus.On the other hand, up to 2,230 people entered by Covid fall, and the occupation rate descends again to 4.70 points.The percentage occupied in the virus also falls to 23.59.

This follows from the document published by Health on Wednesday, which detailed the impact of the coronavirus by age groups: the most affected, which is made up of people between 30 and 39 years, with an incidence of 4,067.67 cases byEvery 100,000 inhabitants.By order from greater to lowest, the end of the end of the age groups is as follows: from 40 to 49, 3,986.80 points;up to 11 years, 3,908.83;From 12 to 19, 3,896.56;from 20 to 29, 3,810.02;50 to 59, 2,968.98.Already below the barrier of 2,000 cases are the oldest of 70 to 79 years, with 1,538.24 points of incidence;60 to 69, 1,666.35 points;and those over 80, 1,850.73.

According to the data published by the Ministry of Health this Wednesday, Aragon (with 5,711.32 cases per 100,000 inhabitants), Navarra (with 5,705.80 cases) and Euskadi (with 5,327.66) are located at the head of Spain in withthe highest incidents of the entire territory.At the tail of this list are Andalusia (with 1,323.66 points), the Community of Madrid (2,354.04) and the Canary Islands (2,880.38).

Spain has registered this Wednesday 157,941 new positive COVID-19 and 160 more dead because of the disease caused by the virus.These numbers raise the total balance of our country to 8,676,916 infections and 91,437 deaths from the beginning of the health crisis.

The blood extracted to patients shortly after infected with the SARS-COV-2, the virus caused by COVID-19, can indicate who are more likely to end up in the hospital, as discovered by a study led by Stanford Medicine researchers(USA)."We have identified an early biomarker at risk of progression to serious symptoms. And we discover that the antibodies caused by an RNM vaccine (in this case, Pfizer's) differ significantly and beneficially from those of people infected with SARS-COV-2 that later progress to serious symptoms, "explains Taia Wang, one of the research leaders, which has been published in the scientific journal 'Science Translational Medicine'.

The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, explained that "despite the high incidents observed during this sixth wave, up to almost seven times higher than that observed on the same dates but a year ago, the probability of hospitalization is up to eight times less thanLast year, from the entrance to the ICU, it is between 10 and 15 minor and to die up to 20 times less. This lesser gravity in this wave, with a higher registered incidence, has made hospital occupation remain at least equal to or even belowthat the registered this date in 2021 ".

The epidemiological situation of Spain begins to stabilize in the third week of 2022. Thus it follows from the new report published by the Ministry of Health, in which this Wednesday a new fall in the accumulated incidence stands out;This time, of 20 points, until reaching 3,286 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

Novak Djokovic has become an owner of 80% of Quantbiors, a Danish company that is currently developing a treatment against COVID.This was announced on Wednesday by the company itself, whose plan is to manufacture a drug against the coronavirus that is not a vaccine: "We are prepared to design a treatment that can block the infection mechanism between the coronavirus and our cells."

Boris Johnson, leader of the United Kingdom, has announced that the measures implemented by his government to contain the propagation of omicron will be suspended next Wednesday.It should be remembered that, given the appearance of the new variant, the British Prime Minister chose to impose the Tour of Teleworking, the mandatory use of a mask and the need to present the COVID-19 vaccination certificate to access certain facilities.

Spain has already administered 87,645,324 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 since the immunization campaign in our country began.This follows from the last report related to this issue published by the Ministry of Health, which this Wednesday indicates that there are already more than 39 million people in our country (specifically, 39,017,074, 92.5% of the largest population of12 years) that have received at least one injection of the solution against the coronavirus.In addition, 38,201,057 people, 90.6%, have already received the complete pattern.

HM Hospitals will be integrated into the Hipra Phase III clinical trial, which aims, the virus caused by COVID-19.

Bolivia finally decides to indefinite the Covid passport in public places.This has been announced by the Government this Wednesday through the country's Minister of Health, Jeyson Auza: "To preserve the security of the population in the face of certain groups that do not accept vaccinating (...) the suspension of the presentation of the card is determinedof vaccination or negative PCR test while the declaration of health emergency lasts. "

El Salvador Minister of Health, Francisco Alabí, confirmed on Wednesday the presence of the Sars-Cov-2 omicron variant in the Latin American country, a day after refusing to admit it. In an interview on Salvadoran television, Alabí saidOn Tuesday that the health authorities were collecting a sample to send to a laboratory specialized in Panama with the aim of detecting the presence of omicron in the country.

Ireland announced Wednesday that health professionals who have worked in the front line of the Coronavirus pandemic will receive this year a bonus of 1,000 euros free of taxes.The Dublin Executive, of coalition between centrist, democristians and green, also agreed today to add a festive date more to the annual calendar, with a day set for March 18 that will serve to remember the victims of the COVID-19.

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, has insisted that he will not resign through the holiday scandal in Downing Street in the framework of the pandemic and has asked parliamentarians to wait for the results of the independent research ongoing.

The Government of La Rioja has decided to expand until January 31 the measures taken to stop the spread of COVID-19, such as the closure of the hospitality and leisure to 1.00, something that was planned to end on January 24.The spokesman of the Regional Executive, Álex Goldo, and the Director General of Public Health, LATASA Pello, have explained that this decision must be supported by the Superior Court of Justice of La Rioja (TSJR), which already endorsed these measures when its validity wasscheduled until next day 24.

The deputy of Unidas Podemos has reported, through his Twitter account, that he has tested positive for Coronavirus.Despite having the complete vaccination pattern, he has said, he has presented "39 of fever and an important pain in the chest, symptoms that have already sent."

The health authorities of the Czech Republic have found on Wednesday another 28,469 daily cases of COVID-19, a figure that constitutes a record since the pandemic began.The previous Pico de Positive was recorded on November 25, 2021, when the Ministry of Health notified about 27,000 positives.The incidence has climbed from the 800 cases per 100,000 inhabitants to 950 in a day and has risen in all regions.

Castilla y León has added a total of 8,176 new cases diagnosed with COVID-19 compared to the last part ---27 more than this Tuesday but 2,813 less than Wednesday of last week-, with ten more deaths in hospitals, up to a totalof 6,651, and 122 new high doctors, 36,434 in total.According to the data offered by the Ministry of Health, in total 547,071 positive COVID-19 have been diagnosed, including the reinfined, in the different types of tests, after adding 8,176 new cases more on the last day.Of that total, 540,587 positive have been confirmed in PCR test and antigens.

The Venezuela Government has notified 2,090 new cases of COVID-19, an unpublished daily balance since the beginning of the pandemic and that has led to Chavism to ask for "maximum awareness and prevention" to citizens, especially for the repercussions of the omicron variant.The country has registered a total of 458,731 cases of Coronavirus, while the death figure amounts to 5,387, four more than in the previous balance.

The Rioja has to regret a new death by Coronavirus, as the regional government has just updated.On the other hand, the active cases have gone from the 3,047 yesterday to the 2,888 today, 159 less, while the care pressure rises very slightly, with 87 people admitted (one more than 24 hours ago).

The Epidemiology Service of the Balearic Government has notified the Ministry of Health 4,885 new positive cases in COVID-19, so that the infection figure amounts to 191,838 from the beginning of the pandemic and the number of deaths because of the virus amounts to 1,103After confirming four new deaths.According to the data provided on Wednesday by the Ministry of Health, the UCI occupation rate per Covid remains at very high risk --25.22%-, with a total of 86 people admitted, of which 76 are in Mallorca,Three in Menorca and seven in Ibiza.

The Israel government has confirmed that during the last day more than 70,000 cases of coronavirus have been notified, which is a new historical maximum, in the midst of a rebound in the figures attached in part to the spread of the omicron variant.The general director of the Israeli Ministry of Health, Najman Ash, said that during the last 24 hours 71,593 infections have been registered, before adding that 526 people are admitted in serious condition.

The Catalan Health Department has opened the vaccination of third doses against the coronavirus young people from 18 to 29 years old who have put the second more than eight months -the bulk of the group was vaccinated six -, at a time of record figuresof infections in the community, with 700,000 positive in the last 25 days.This has been announced on Wednesday by the Minister of Health, Josep Maria Argimon, and the Secretary of Public Health of the Generalitat, Carmen Cabezas, at a press conference.

The new contagions of COVID-19 increase again in Galicia after a couple of days in descent to 6,619, which are about 1,900 more, while active cases rise to 75,961-2,200 more than the previous day.For their part, patients hospitalized by this coronavirus rise to 608-seis more-and the positivity rate increases slightly to 18.7% in the whole of the Galician community.

The president of the Supreme Court and the CGPJ, Carlos Lesmes, has tested positive after a test by COVID-19.He has the complete vaccination pattern and has mild symptoms.He has already suspended his public agenda for the next few days, so he will not attend the opening ceremony of the City of Justice of Albacete that will take place next Friday

Andalusia records on Wednesday a rise of 60 hospitalized in 24 hours by Coronavirus up to a total of 2,091, with what we continue in February figures last year and what is 367 in the intersemanal comparison, while patients admitted to a unit ofIntensive care (ICU) falls by five to 231, four more than a week ago.The hospitalized rose on 60 this Wednesday, after doing so in 209 this Tuesday, lowering in 22 on Monday, adding 41 on Saturday, 72 on Friday, seven on Thursday and 21 last Wednesday.

The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has affirmed that the contagion data of Coronavirus on the islands are pointing out that the sixth wave of the pandemic begins to "flatten" in the islands."There are several circumstances that have occurred in all waves; in the first place that in the islands are usually given fundamentally in the rest times and secondly that we are going a little behind the rest of CCAA, that is, the other autonomiesThey have worse data at the beginning, the Canary Islands are introduced in what is half of the waves of other communities, "he said.

The sixth wave of Covid remains uncontrolled in Catalonia, which has beat the contagios record again, with more than 211,000 in the last seven days, and a mortality growth, with an average of 34 deceased daily in the last week, althoughHospitalizations and income in the ICU begin to go down.According to data updated on Wednesday by the Department of Health, today there are a total of 2,618 people admitted by Covid in Catalan hospitals, 54 less than yesterday, of which 504, 25 less than yesterday, they are serious in the ICU, 339 ofThey intubated and 17 with ECMO (extracorporeal respiration).

The Spanish government has donated more than 2.2 million vaccines against COVID-19 to meet the needs of Afghan refugees in Iran in response to a request in this regard made by Tehran to the EU.As reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement, Iran launched a call for help through the European Civil Protection mechanism in which it requested 6 million vaccines for Afghan residents in the country.

Health brings together communities to analyze the evolution of pandemic and vaccination, after the first fall in the incidence of the sixth wave of the Covid was recorded on Tuesday, which could confirm that this week the penal peak has been reachedof this period.

The Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, and the Vice President of Work and Social Economy, have announced through social networks that they have positive in Coronavirus.Both have the complete vaccination pattern and are in isolation at their home.

The Brazilian health authorities have notified 132,254 new infections of Coronavirus, which represents a new record of daily infections in a country that already accumulates more than 23.2 million positive cases since the beginning of the pandemic.The epidemiological data of Brazil have been increasing since the celebration of the end of the year parties and the appearance of the omicron variant, which has caused the country to now register an average of 83,630 cases in the last week, the highest ofAll pandemic.For their part, the authorities have estimated at 621,578 the deceased because of the virus after adding 317 new deaths on the last day.

A group of outstanding 'Torsos' has gathered in the office of the conservative deputy by Rutland and Melton, Alicia Kearns, to discuss the future of the United Kingdom Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, for the 'Partygate'.

The Community of Madrid has opened the self -cite today for the reinforcement vaccine for people between 30 and 39 years.A campaign that will begin this Thursday.

The COVID-19 is neither endemic or seasonal, so for now it is not comparable to the flu.The current scientific consensus, represented by the main health authorities, is that it is early to treat this virus as an endemic disease.COVID-19 is a pandemic.The incidence is triggered, which is tensioning health systems.With this panorama talking about "gripalizing" Covid-19 is a frivolity, it is a way to banalize pandemic and banalize the flu.

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The health authorities of Germany have registered 112,323 infections, thus exceeding the 100,000 daily infections for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic and, therefore, setting a new record.In recent days, Germany has registered an exponential increase in infections, going from the 34,000 two days ago, to the more than 74,400 on Tuesday and, now, more than 112,000.This follows from the balance sheet prepared by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the government entity responsible for the control of infectious diseases in the country, which also highlights the death of 239 people on account of the virus.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, José Manuel Albares, transmitted to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), the disposition of the Spanish Government to expand donations of vaccines against COVID-19 to the OAS countries torequest.The minister has expressed his commitment from Spain to vaccination in the region, to which Spain has donated 21 million doses, and offered the possibility of expanding these donations to all those countries of the OAS that request it.

The care pressure is serious right right now, with 97 more hospitalized people compared to the previous day.In the plant, the hospital occupation rate per 100,000 inhabitants remains at 39.87 points (yesterday was 39.66) and there are 15.17% of beds occupied by patients with Coronavirus.The situation in the ICUs is equally alarming, since 2,243 people are admitted to these units by Covid, although somewhat decreases the UCI occupation rate at 4.73 points per 100,000 inhabitants while also lowers, at 23.69, the percentage the beds occupied by the virus.

The incidence rates divided by age stripes again mark the group of people between 20 and 29 years -with an incidence of 4,025.35 cases per 100,000 inhabitants - as the most exposed to the virus, although it is not the group with the highest risk, because the virus continues to affect the elderly much more.By order from greater to lowest, the level of affectation of the rest of the groups is as follows: from 40 to 49, 4,001.55 points;from 30 to 39, 3,988.59;From 12 to 19, 3,929.63 points;up to 11 years, 3,494.75;50 to 59, 3,111.31.Already below the barrier of 2,000 cases are the older than 70 to 79 years, with 1,547.91 points of incidence;60 to 69, 1,747.18 points;and those over 80, 1,845.79.

Despite the decline in the incidence, the data must still be added the figures, still very high, of infections and deceased.Because this Tuesday, our country has registered 94,472 new positive, of which 52,078 were diagnosed yesterday, and has added 284 dead due to the disease caused by the virus.Some figures that lead Spain to count 8,518,975 positive and 91,277 killed by COVID-19 from the beginning of the health crisis, which now especially affects young people.

Spain would have already exceeded the Pico de Contagios de Covid after the first weeks of 2022. This seems to be exposed by the Ministry of Health in its daily report, highlighting that the accumulated incidence has fallen for the first time since October.The AI descends to 3,306 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days.The situation, however, is particularly worrying in nine communities, where the rate continues above 4,000 points.At the head are Navarra (with 5,974.27 cases), Aragon (with 5882.10) and Euskadi (with 5,681.05);At the tail, Andalusia (1416.72 points), Madrid (2454.61) and Castilla-La Mancha (2895.06).