The Community of Madrid significantly unblocks its hospital system in just one month. In the last 30 days, the number of people hospitalized for coronavirus in Madrid has fallen from 2,066 to 833 this Wednesday. A 60% decrease in hospital pressure that leaves Madrid at the level of hospitalizations prior to the holiday bridge last August, in that period there have been a total of 4,823 hospital discharges, registering one of the highest levels of recovery in recent At this time, as confirmed by sources from the Madrid Ministry of Health, there is no hospital in the entire Community that has more than fifty Covid patients on the floor. With the exception of the Isabel Zendal Nurse Hospital, which accumulates just over two hundred admitted. The emergency hospital currently assumes more than one in four cases of coronavirus that require hospitalization. The fall in patients reaches 60% in a month, but the decrease in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) has been more moderate until the moment. There are still 317 critical patients in Madrid hospitals, and new infections also plummet compared to a month ago. In the last 24 hours, a total of 696 cases of coronavirus have been registered and 5 deaths have been recorded in hospitals: the same figure that was reached in two days last week. For months such a low number of deaths from Covid had not been registered in Madrid. 115,000 have been hospitalized In the accumulated, the Community has reported a total 730,019 cases since the start of the pandemic, of which 114,775 have required hospitalization on the ward and 11,705 have passed through the ICUs, and in terms of deaths, Madrid has counted 23.521 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic: 17,055 in hospitals, 5,067 in social health centers, 1,369 in homes and 30 in other places.Madrid, for nightlife On the other hand, the Madrid Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, has shown this Wednesday against the proposal of the Ministry of Health to reopen nightlife until 2 in the morning in the territories with less incidence. It does so by claiming that, in the current situation, the region could not make any decision on this sector.The Ministry of Health asks the communities to reopen nightlife until 2 a.m. in the territories with less incidence, to impose a schedule closure to the hotel industry until 1:00 a.m. and prohibit smoking in the street when the safety distance cannot be kept, as stated in the draft declaration of coordinated actions of the Interterritorial Health Council, which makes mandatory for all communities the compliance with the vaccination strategy approved by the Public Health Commission.
