It has been two months, 56 days to be specific, since the Pitiusas were below 800 active coronavirus cases. “The situation is clearly improving ,” the Balearic Minister of Health, Patricia Gomez, said yesterday after meeting with representatives of municipalities and the Consell in Ibiza. Gomez highlighted the drop in the incidence of covid on the island and noted that at the moment the two-week indicator stands at 290 infections per hundred thousand inhabitants while a month ago “it was 1,582. The same, she said, has happened with the positive cases detected each day, which a month ago were “about fifty a day” and y
esterday only ten were reported in Ibiza and one in Formentera. This, coupled with more than 80 medical discharges, meant that the number of active covid cases in the Pitiusas stood at 776, 8.5% less than the previous day and 34.5% less than a week ago.
The consellera stressed that although the pressure on healthcare “is improving”, the number of patients admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICU) is the last indicator to go down. Just yesterday the number of critical coronavirus patients in the Pitiusas Islands dropped from seven to six. This figure has hardly moved in recent weeks. While all the other indicators have been plummeting, the number of critically infected patients has ranged between ten and six for more than fifteen days.
Vaccinations
Teachers and nursing home workers reluctant
Gomez said yesterday that about 10% of teachers still have not been vaccinated while among nursing home staff this percentage is even higher.
Campaign
Easier to get vaccinated without making an appointment
The Conselleria acknowledged yesterday that it was first thought that the vaccination campaign would be more effective by giving out appointments. However, it has been seen to be more practical to not require appoints and let people come when they can.
Immunisation
Doses in hospitals
Vaccination is now being offered to all patients who come to hospital and have not had their first dose.
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