Date Published: 07/05/2020
ARCHIVED - Breakdown of remaining Covid-19 cases by municipality; Region of Murcia
ARCHIVED ARTICLE There are now three times as many recoveries as active cases in the Murcia region.
Image 1: Distribution of masks to users of public tansport this week by Protección Civíl in Alhama de Murcia.
Only 14 out of 45 municipalities now have active cases.
Number of active cases; 528; (2,192 cases total, 1501 of which have been diagnosed using the PCR swab system and 691 using rapid tester kits which identify positive antibodies in the blood). In total 23,976 PCR tests have been carried out and 14,429 rapid tests.
Hospitalised 56; 13 in intensive care
Fatalities 137 (one death in the last 24 hours)
Recoveries 1527
On Wednesday evening the Spanish parliament agreed to extend the state of emergency to 24th May, granting the national government a continuance of the powers which have enabled it to keep the country locked down in order to suppress the spread of Covid-19.
Next week we start to enter a period of de-escalation, and although businesses are keen to return to work and the public desperate for the freedom to once again meet friends and resume a normal life, the regional authorities are amongst the harshest critics of the de-escalation process, fearing a resurgence in cases once the public is mingling more actively once again.
The Region of Murcia has maintained its position as the region with the lowest incidence of Covid on the Spanish mainland throughout lockdown and slowly the cases here are dwindling.
The latest breakdown of active cases by municipality shows that cases remain only in 14 of the 45 municipalities of the Region of Murcia, the bulk of them concentrated in the cities of Murcia and Cartagena:
Murcia municipality (includes Sucina, Corvera, Gea y Truyols and other outlying districts; 174
Cartagena municipality; 61
Molina de Segura; 15
Yecla; 19
Santomera; 24
Abanilla ; 13
Cieza; 15
Lorca; 14
Calasparra; 8
Alcantarilla; 5
Jumilla; 10
Archena; 5
Totana; 5
Fortuna; 5
All other positives declared to date elsewhere have now been cured.
The Wednesday figures include one fatality, bringing the total to 137.
The number of hospitalisations continues to fall, dropping from 66 to 56 during the last 24 hours and the number on intensive care has now fallen to just 13 ( a drop of two in the last 24 hours).
With increased testing underway now that the region has received 77,000 rapid tester kits from the national Ministry of Health, the number of cases has risen, as was expected.
Yesterday the regional authorities carried out more than 2,300 tests, working through the backlog of “suspected cases” generated by the helpline called by those believing they had mild symptoms of Covid-19; most of these used the rapid test kits and yielded 56 “new” positives.
604 PCR swab tests identified 3 new cases.
However, all of the 56 rapid test positives showed no current symptoms and were added to the “recovered cases” list which grew by 62 yesterday to a total of 1527; the recoveries in the Murcia region are now three times the number of active cases.
Remember: LOCKDOWN MEANS LOCKDOWN. STAY AT HOME. STAY SAFE AND DO YOUR BIT TO REDUCE THE SPREAD OF CORONAVIRUS.
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