Sharjah24 – AFP: Spain's central government's chief epidemiologist announces an 'enormous increase' in Covid-19 cases among unvaccinated residents, but says that the hospitalisation and fatality rates remain relatively stable.

Commenting on this, Fernando Simon, Spanish government's chief epidemiologist said, "We have an incidence of 368 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The forecast for the next few days is that this will continue to rise and it is very likely that in a couple of days we will be clearly above 400 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. This evolution, as we have already been saying for weeks, it focuses especially on the enormous increase in the incidence that has occurred in the unvaccinated groups. As you know, the unvaccinated groups are for now mainly those under 40 years of age."

He added, "(ICU) Hospital occupancy has gone from being slightly below 7%, 6.8% last Friday, to 7.8 today, the occupancy level in Intensive Care Units, and the level of hospitalization has gone from being slightly below the 3% to slightly 3% today. So we still do not observe, and we hope that it does not happen, but we do not observe increases in fatality and with a death date in the last seven days we have observed or have reported 32 people."