The Marina Alta is once again among the regions with the highest rate of coronavirus infections. In departments, where the figures are more appreciable, Dénia, on which the entire region depends, is already among the 5 with the highest incidence of coronavirus in the Valencian Community.
Just a month ago, the Marina Alta had the best coronavirus data for the second semester. But a weeks later, with bridges and festivities in between, they have made all optimism darken. Now, to make matters worse, it is not fair to blame Christmas since it is still too early to know the consequences of these. Therefore, we are talking about a situation that is what we faced last week at Christmas events.
The cumulative incidence of the coronavirus in the Dénia health department stands at 465'82, too similar to the worst recorded during the pandemic in the region. This figure indicates the number of infections per 100.000 inhabitants of the different departments and municipalities through a mathematical formula that takes into account the total population and active cases.
In the last update of November, on the 27th of that month, the Marina Alta had an incidence of 78'61. Now this has quadrupled.
In the Valencian Community there are only 3 health departments with an incidence higher than that of the Dénia health department. These are: Vinaròs, with 498'81, Requena, with 565'17, and Xàtiva, with 656'51. Comarcas neighboring the Marina Alta have a much lower incidence, which highlights the very sensitive situation we are going through (the Gandia health department has 398'30 and the Marina Baixa 164'58).
These data, unfortunately, are expected to worsen in the following updates when the infections suffered at Christmas are added. In addition, Public Health informed the town councils of the region that, indeed, we were going through one of the hardest moments. So much so that they reported that they could not add all the cases to the latest update since PCR tests were accumulating too much since last December 24 due to an increase in requests.
I point the finger at the hotel industry! Last weekend I was in a restaurant, where the owner of the restaurant served customers with the mouth mask under the nose and then completely under the chin ???