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Date Published: 22/07/2020
ARCHIVED - 730 new Covid cases in Spain today, highest figure since 7th May
There are currently 224 active outbreaks in the country
It’s quite difficult being a newswriter at the moment. Social media is awash with rumours which are mainly unfounded and filled with people who claim to know more about the Covid situation than the Government in spite of the fact that they were sweeping roads the week before; it’s also filled with newspapers who are desperate to get traffic at any cost and are publishing headlines which are absolute nonsense and only seek to gain internet traffic.
The media is being blamed for publishing the news that nobody wants to read in spite of the fact that they exist for the purpose of publishing information; that’s why it’s called “news”.
And news writers who are determinedly publishing news and trying to help people understand what is actually going on are being accused of “scaremongering”, writing “fake news” and being “liars”, very often in a personal and highly hurtful fashion for the writer.
It's not true by the way, that Spain is on the verge of locking down again...that's just a rumour.
But at the end of the day, the figures speak for themselves and today Spain has recorded
730 new cases in the last 24 hours, the highest number of new cases diagnosed in a single day since the 7th May.
This graph is from Worldometer as it clearly shows the rising case numbers again, although also shows that the numbers of new cases at the moment are considerably lower than they were during the peak:
The total number of cases diagnosed in Spain to date is now 267.551.
This pdf is the source document and details all the data behnd these figures: Click Spain Covid Wednesday 22nd July
There are currently 224 active outbreaks in the country with 2,622 associated cases according to the Health Minister, Salvador Illa.
Aragón is the region with the highest number of new cases; 309, followed by Navarra (132) and Madrid (70).
• Andalusia: 29
• Aragón: 309
• Asturias: 1
• Balearic Islands: 2
• Canary Islands: 11
• Cantabria: 1
• Castilla-La Mancha: 3
• Castilla y León: 3
• Cataluña: 58
• Ceuta: 0
• Comunidad Valenciana: 26
• Extremadura: 20
• Galicia: 0
• Madrid: 70
• Melilla: 0
• Murcia: 20
• Navarra: 132
• Basque Country: 20
• La Rioja: 25
The number of deaths remains low at the moment, with only 2 in the last 24 hours and 10 in the last week, but this is because many of the new cases are related to younger people who tend to show milder symptoms, or are asymptomatic (no symptoms) regardless of the fact that they are just as contagious as someone with a severe case and in fact go on to transmit the virus to other people regardless.
UK figures
Deaths from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom rose to 45,501 today, after adding 79 in 24 hours to the total.
296,277 cases have been detected to date in the UK, of which 560 were registered in the last 24 hours.
Catalonia
The Ministry of Health has notified 721 new positives in Catalonia today, 131 more than those registered on Tuesday. The number of deceased notified by funeral homes amounts to 8 people. The Catalan government is studying the closure of nocturnal leisure venues in the same fashion as Murcia and Navarra.
Navarra
The Government of Navarra has decreed the closure of bars, discotheques, gaming halls, clubs and leisure clubs at 2 in the morning, has banned botellon drinking sessions and has reduced the number of people allowed in a group at any one time in the hospitality sector to 10 after detecting 130 new cases from these sources in the last 24 hours. 21 outbreaks have been reported in Navarra, the worst associated with the Mendillorri neighborhood of Pamplona, where infections reached 122 this Wednesday, 93% of them amongst the younger population and linked to nightlife after the celebration of the 'no sanfermines'. (The San Fermin fiestas were cancelled so local youngsters held parties regardless to celebrate the non-happening of the fiestas).
In the Mendillorri area, the Navarrese executive has implemented additional restrictions that can be assimilated "to a phase 2 of relaxed de-escalation", with capacity limitations of 50% within shops, bars, places of worship or cultural facilities and 75% on terraces, but without any restrictions to mobility.
La Rioja
The La Rioja government has recommended temporarily suspending walks outside the care homes of the elderly and disabled.
Madrid
The Region of Madrid has reported three new outbreaks on Wednesday, one of them affecting the footballers of Fuenlabrada, with 11 positives and almost 100 identified contacts. The other two relate to parties and gatherings: one in the towns of San Agustín de Guadalix and Ciempozuelos, where 7 positives have been detected and 27 contacts have been identified after a party, and another in Torrelaguna, with five cases and 30 contacts after an excursion between friends and family.
Madrid is now considering making the use of masks mandatory as is the case in every other region of Spain than the Canary islands and Madrid .
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