- EDITIONS:
Spanish News Today
Murcia Today
Alicante Today
PROPERTY SEARCH
ARCHIVED - Clinical Hospital of Malaga forced to open more Covid beds as cases rebound
Daily infections across Andalucía have been rising for weeks and are translating into increased hospital pressure
Coronavirus cases have been increasing across Spain for a number of weeks now but until recently, the prevalence of the Omicron variant meant that most people weren’t becoming seriously ill. However, in recent days, a disturbing trend that has been noted during previous waves is occurring in Andalucía: first infections rise, then hospital pressure, followed by ICU admissions. The last link in the chain, sadly, is that fatalities go up.
In the last health update on Friday 1 July, 138 people were hospitalised in Malaga, 42 more than on the same day the previous week. As a result, the Clinic Hospital has been forced to open up more isolation beds on its wards to treat the influx of Covid patients.
Specifically, the Malaga health centre has cleared space on the fifth floor, where patients suffering from the virus have always been placed, and on other wards in the hospital.
According to medical professionals at the Costa del Sol hospital, while there has been a “slight rebound” in hospitalisations, the situation is nowhere close to crisis point. Yet.
“There is a slight rebound. There are more patients than 15 days ago. It is going up, not as fast as before, but it is going up. We don’t know how far it will go. It is controlled, but yes, there is a slight increase; although the increase is not as massive nor as fast as in the waves that we have already experienced,” one doctor said.
Health experts are arguing over whether Spain is in the grip of a new, eighth wave or is simply experiencing the lingering effects of the seventh, but the data shows that across the country, more and more younger people are turning up to Primary Care facilities with Covid-related illnesses.
So worrying is the situation that Malaga’s mayor, Francisco de la Torre, has come out in favour of reintroducing mask-wearing indoors as a safety precaution.
“Otherwise,” he said, “we are going to have a summer with many health problems that will affect the wellbeing and lives of many.”
Image: Archive
staff.inc.and
Read more about Coronavirus:
OR
Sign up for the Spanish News Today Editors Roundup Weekly Bulletin to get a comprehensive email with all the week’s news for Spain, Murcia, Alicante and Andalucía.
Get a sneak peek – here are a few of our recent Subscription Bulletins:
50% Discount Special Offer subscription:
24.95€ for 48 Editor’s Weekly News Roundup bulletins!
Please CLICK THE BUTTON to subscribe.
