Covid numbers in Spain – Tuesday, February 15

Tuesday’s figures show that the accumulated incidence has been reduced by 102 points, standing at 1,142.13 infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days. This is compared to 1,244.44 points on Monday.

Another 310 deaths have been added in the report. This means that a total of 96,906 people with a positive diagnostic test have died since the virus arrived in Spain, 625 in the last week.

In a statement presented at a virtual meeting with the media, Hans Kluge, the Belgian director of the European office of the World Health Organization (WHO), warned of how the Omicron variant is expanding in Eastern Europe.

“In the last two weeks, Covid-19 cases have more than doubled in six countries in this part of the region, specifically, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine. As anticipated, the wave of Omicron is moving east. 10 eastern member states have already detected this variant”, as reported by elespanol.com.

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