[News] Aragon, the main focus of Covid in Spain: doubles Catalonia in the rate of infections

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Aragon has become the main focus of Covid in Spain, without the authorities having hitherto been correct in explaining why this region has had a re-emergence of this caliber, especially disproportionate if it takes into account the low demographic weight of this community. in the whole of Spain. No other community comes close to Aragon in terms of new infections. Catalonia does not even come close to it, which proportionally has far fewer cases than Aragon, less than half.

In Catalonia the absolute figure is very large, but much less than in Aragon when compared to the inhabitants of that community. And that is really what allows us to analyze the epidemiological situation that occurs in a territory, because it is what really reveals how more or less widespread the disease is, the speed at which it spreads and the size of the problem. And, above all, to be able to compare different territories in homogeneous terms.

The figures are overwhelming: according to official Health data, in the last seven days Aragón has notified 126 new infections for every 100,000 inhabitants. Catalonia has registered 51 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and the Spanish average - without counting Aragon - amounts to 14 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

 

                                         

In other words, in the last seven days, the rate of new infections from Covid in Aragon is nine times higher than in the rest of Spain. And more than double that in Catalonia, the other region that concentrates the worst wave of infections that is currently occurring in our country.

Another fact that clearly reflects the dimension of the problem that is concentrated in Aragon is the leading role it has acquired in the total number of new infections detected in Spain, which contrasts with its very low demographic weight in the country as a whole. Thus, in the last seven days, Aragon concentrates 20% of the new infections detected nationwide, despite the fact that only 2.8% of the Spanish po[CENSORED]tion lives in this region.

It is the thorny panorama with which the gynecologist Sira Repollés has been dealing for weeks at the head of the Aragonese Ministry of Health, which she arrived a couple of months ago, on May 14. The regional president Javier Lambán signed her as a counselor after dropping his hitherto counselor Pilar Ventura, who starred in a resounding resignation. Ventura resigned after a controversial episode that put Lambán's executive, the four-party PSOE-Podemos-Chunta-PAR, on the spot.