The province of Alicante registered 3,244 new cases of coronavirus, according to the figures released on Sunday by the Conselleria de Salud, which means that for the fifth consecutive day the figure has exceeded 3,000 infections. The accumulated number of people affected since the health crisis broke out ten months ago stands at 88,503.
The new cases in Alicante have been more than double the 1,448 in the province of Valencia, despite the fact that the centre of the Community has 700,000 more inhabitants than Alicante.
To these figures are added the death of another 18 people in the province of Alicante in the 24 hours prior to the figures being released, which leaves the number of deaths throughout these ten months at 1,443. In Valencia and Castellón, 22 more people have died, bringing the total number of fatalities from the pandemic in the Valencian Community to 4,131.
And meanwhile, hospital occupancy also continues to increase, although it is true over the weekend it has done so significantly less than in previous days, and that for the first time in 12 days there has been a small decrease in the number of patients in the Intensive Care Units (ICU). There are 1,700 people admitted to health centres in the province of Alicante, 11 more than the previous day, while there are 218 sick people in a critical condition, three less than the previous day (prior to the release of the figures on Sunday). In the whole Community there are 4,338 coronavirus patients, 586 of them in the ICU.
On Sunday, ten new coronavirus outbreaks were registered in the Community, six of them in the province of Alicante.