Date Published: 21/09/2020
ARCHIVED - 566 new cases and one death; Covid Murcia Region Sunday 29th September
ARCHIVED ARTICLE
312 people moved from active case status to cured on Sunday
The number of coronavirus cases in the Region of Murcia continues to rise stadily and on Sunday 20th, 566 new cases were detected by PCR, bringing the total number of ACTIVE cases to 7,680 and the total number of cases detected to date up to 16,927.
Of these, 15,221 have been detected using the PCR swab test method and 1706 via antibody test.
Of the 566 new cases, 142 correspond to the municipality of Murcia, 91 to Lorca, 69 to Jumilla, 33 to Molina de Segura, 27 to Yecla, 25 to Cartagena, 22 to Totana, 13 to Alcantarilla, 12 to Mazarrón, 11 to Cehegín, 10 to Mula, 9 to Ceutí, 8 to Cieza, 7 to Alhama de Murcia, 7 to Archena, 7 to Puerto Lumbreras, and 7 to Las Torres de Cotillas. The rest are distributed among various locations in smaller quantities.
7,366 of the active cases are mild and the patients are in home isolation. The remaining 314 are hospitalised, 59 of them in intensive care.
The spread of cases in the last 7 days can be seen in the list below which was last updated on FRIDAY:
These figures below relate to FRIDAY, and do not include the figures reported on either Saturday or Sunday:
Note, the first figure shown is the actual number of cases diagnosed in the last 7 days, the second is the IA rate for the last 7 days (number of cases per 100,000 of population): In brackets the number of cases is indicated as either a positive or negative compared to the situation on Thursday)
Abanilla 2/36 (0) ( This means 2 cases in the last two weeks and an IA rate of 36, so very low, with no change in case numbers from yesterday)
Abarán 14/108 (+1)
Águilas 24/68 (+1)
Albudeite 0
Alcantarilla 110/223 (+16)
Aledo 3/293 (+2)
Los Alcázares 31/192 (+1)
Alguazas 15/93 (+6)
Alhama de Murcia 94/321 (+23)
Archena 64/331(+18)
Beniel 41/362 (+9)
Blanca 10/152 (+3)
Bullas 11/95 (-2)
Calasparra 0
Caravaca de la Cruz 48/186 (+1)
Cartagena 196/91 (-10)
Cehegín 19/126 (-1)
Ceutí 35/296 (+6)
Cieza 60/171 (+7)
Fortuna 24/207 (+2)
Fuente Álamo 30/180 (-1)
Jumilla 235/918 (-4)
Librilla 3/56
Lorca 521/551 (+21)
Lorquí 40/560 (+5)
Mazarrón 70/164(+17)
Molina de Segura 124/154 (+13)
Moratalla 8/102 (+3)
Mula 67/337 (+10)
Murcia 847/186 (+79)
Ojós 1/200 (+1)
Pliego 2/52
Puerto Lumbreras 12/78 (+5)
Ricote 1/79
San Javier 64/197 (+9)
San Pedro del Pinatar 33/129 (-1)
Santomera 32/197 (+7)
Torre Pacheco 104/291 (-7)
Las Torres de Cotillas 30/167 (-6)
Totana 237/740 (+30)
La Unión 35/202 (-6)
Villanueva del Río Segura 10/343 (-2)
Yecla 102/296 (+16)
Those from other regions diagnosed in Murcia 51
Total 3460 . Acumulated IA rate in the last 7 days: 231
Fatalities
A 70 year old female from Lorca has died in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of mortalities this month to 32 and the total fatalities so far to 192.
The total number now cured to date is 7,349, 312 of which were added to the list this Sunday, helping to lower the number of active cases a little.