The latest Valencian figures show that Covid intensive care admissions have doubled in a week. Valencian hospitals currently have 323 people admitted for COVID, 22 of them in the ICU – last week, there were 10 people in ICU. This week’s figure is the worst since the end of August, when 33 people were in intensive care for Covid treatment. There have been 1,557 new cases confirmed by PCR test across the region – 411 in Alicante Province. This is despite almost 13 million doses of the vaccine being given across the region since the pandemic began.