Date Published: 15/07/2020
ARCHIVED - 390 new Covid cases in Spain today; highest daily figure since May
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Aragón has the highest number with 160, followed by Catalonia (91) and Madrid (43)
The Spanish Ministry of Health has published Covid case figures for the last 24 hours, reporting the highest rise in the number of daily infections of COVID-19 since May; 390 new cases.
This brings the nationwide total of cases confirmed by only the PCR swab testing method, to 257,494.
The largest single amount in one region is 160 in Aragón, ahead of Catalonia (91) and Madrid (43).
Again there is a complete mis-match between the figures being reported by the Ministry of Health and the Catalan government. The Conselleria de Salut de la Generalitat de Catalunya has published the figure of 938 new positives, but according to the Ministry of Health the figure is 91.
Andalucía: 28
Aragón: 160
Asturias: 0
Baleares: 0
Canarias: 5
Cantabria: 3
Castilla-La Mancha: 5
Castilla y León: 6
Cataluña: 91
Ceuta: 1
Comunidad Valenciana: 7
Extremadura: 6
Galicia: 7
Madrid: 43
Melilla: 2
Murcia: 3
Navarra: 17
País Vasco: 3
La Rioja: 3
Fatalities:
There have been 4 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to date up to 28,413.
In the last week, 11 of the autonomous regions and the two autonomous cities (Melilla, Ceuta) have not reported any deaths. Those which have are Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Catalonia, Madrid and the Basque Country.
Outbreaks:
Asturias has confirmed a localised outbreak today, the last of the 17 autonomous regions to do so, which means that every region now has outbreaks; there are more than 130 active outbreaks nationwide as of today.
UK figures
85 deaths in the UK in the last 24 hours, bringing the running fatalities count to date up to 45,053.
In the last 24 hours 538 new cases have been confirmed, bringing the total to date up to 291,911.
Worldwide.
There are now 13.3 million cases worldwide with more than 578,000 fatalities to date, according to the daily global balance published this Wednesday at 9:00 am by the John Hopkins University. The United States alone has 3.43 million cases of COVID-19, and has declared 59,000 new positives in the last 24 hours, The fatalities count is 136,466.
Hidden victims of Covid from the wire today;The Ministry of Health in the Netherlands has reported that it has detected another mink farm with a coronavirus outbreak. Mink transmit Covid easily. There are now 24 such farms with infected animals and the Ministry has issued an order to slaughter 4,500 animals.
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