The Marina Alta says goodbye to 2020 in the worst coronavirus scenario: 5 deaths and almost half a thousand new infections
The Ministry of Health has once again updated the coronavirus figures for each municipality of the Valencian Community. It does so for the first time in the last week, since the incidence has not been published in each health department since last Tuesday, presumably because these notifications are given on Tuesdays and Fridays, the latter coinciding with the Christmas holiday. That is why today's figures correspond to the results of PCR tests carried out since last Tuesday 22.
A week of tests that are added now for the first time, although surely not the majority. The Teulada City Council yesterday reported that in its meeting with Public Health they were informed that from the 24th to this Monday the positives had not been counted since there is a large increase in the tests carried out during that period and, apparently, they are not enough .
Dicho esto, atendiendo a que es probable que no estén sumados todos los casos reales, Sanitat ha registrado estos días en la Marina Alta 479 nuevos contagios. Una cifra desorbitada que, contando que en las últimas dos semanas se han sumado 800 positivos, deja a la comarca con una incidencia acumulada de 465’82 contagios por cada 100.000 habitantes, muy similar a la registrada en las peores semanas de agosto. En total, desde marzo ya han dado positivo 3.116 personas en el departamento de salud de Dénia.
The worst news comes again from the data on the deceased, as 5 more PCR positives have been added to the list in which 43 deceased are already present. Of these, 2 belong to Dénia and the other 3 to El Verger.
Dénia is once again the municipality that adds the most infections to the list, with 131 new cases (1.227 since March). The 191 positives in the last two weeks have caused the incidence to stand at 452.
En el resto de la comarca las cifras no son mucho más alentadoras. Xàbia suma 89 positivos, Calp 57, Teulada 47, Pego 39, Benissa y Ondara 28 cada una, El Verger 18, Pedreguer y Gata 10 cada una, Benitatxell, l’Atzúbia y Sagra 3 cada una, Beniarbeig 2, y Xaló, Llíber, Murla, Benidoleig y la Vall de Laguart 1 cada una.