The trend of active covid cases maintains downward pattern in the Pitiusas after the number of medical discharges yesterday quadrupled the number of new infections, which were 22:20 in Ibiza, 13 less than Wednesday, and 2 in Formentera. This is the balance of the result of the tests performed in the Microbiology Laboratory of Can Misses and private centers, with a positive rate of 8.43% in the last seven days in Ibiza and 8.65% in Formentera.
The Health Department of the Pitiusas reported yesterday that doctors had discharged a total 85 patients, which puts the number of active cases at 1,127, 1,096 of those in Ibiza and 31 in Formentera. In addition, there is one less person admitted to the ward (37 in total), 36 in the Can Misses hospital and one in the Policlínica Nuestra Señora del Rosario. Two come from Formentera. There are still seven people in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), four in Can Misses and three in the Polyclinic, according to the latest report.
It should be taken into account that in Mallorca two covid patients from Ibiza are still hospitalised on the ward, one who has already tested negative in the PCR test and is on the non-covid ward at Son Espases hospital and one more on the ward at Manacor hospital.
Mild cases or without symptoms
There are also slightly more than a thousand people who are mild or asymptomatic at home being monitoring by medical teams of Primary Care, 1,052 in Ibiza and 31 in Formentera. Finally, the number of professionals in active surveillance remains unchanged, 24, of which 17 are positive.
In the Balearic Islands, the Ministry of Health reported yesterday a total of 119 new cases of covid and four deaths, all in Mallorca, which brings the official death toll since the start of the pandemic to 925.
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