Date Published: 03/07/2020
ARCHIVED - Covid Spain 3rd July; 17 deaths and 174 new cases
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This is an unwelcome surge in new cases as Spain begins “Operation Summer”
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The first weekend of July is traditionally the first big weekend for families from the cities to head en-
masse to the coast for their summer holidays, and in spite of the national Ministry of Health insisting on Thursday that the pandemic is “under control” and its evolution is "really good", the recent increase in figures “due to the fact that the detection capacity is much higher because many more tests are being carried out than before”, there are concerns that the migration to the coast may increase cases nationwide once again.
There have been a series of outbreaks in the last two weeks (now up to 67 although the Health Ministry maintains that all are under control) which have pushed the figure back up to levels of new cases last seen in mid-June when the pandemic was losing velocity in Spain.
In the last 24 hours there have been 174 new positives, compared to 134 on Thursday, bringing the number of people infected with Covid-19 since the pandemic began up to 250,545.
By region the new cases break down as follows (new figures are in brackets)
Andalusia, 13,205 (+9); Aragon 6,412 (+31); Asturias 2,435; Balearic Islands 2,228 (+1); Canary Islands 2,436 (+1); Cantabria 2,364; Castilla-La Mancha 18,209 (+8); Castilla y León 19,753;Catalonia 62,057 (+42 ); Ceuta 163; Valencian Community 11,630 (+7); Extremadura 3,047 (+7); Galicia 9,251 (+11); Madrid 72,168 (+50); Melilla 126; Murcia 1,697 (+3); Navarra 5,477 (+1); Basque Country, 13,809 (+3); and in La Rioja 4,078.
The 'cumulative incidence', ie the number of cases diagnosed per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, has increased more than one point in the last ten days, to stand at 8.76.
17 deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours, and 21 during the last seven days, bringing the total deaths to 28,385.
Total deaths for the last seven days; Andalusia (2), Castilla-La Mancha (2), Castilla y León (4), Catalonia (2), Madrid (7), Basque Country (3) and La Rioja (1).
The number of active outbreaks in Spain is now 42. However, only a dozen clusters are said to be “of interest" to the Health Ministry because of their size, continued expansion or origin.
Madrid reported its first major outbreak since the state of emergency ended today, the source of which is believed to be a "work environment" although its name or location are not being provided by the authorities.
5 cases have been detected, all of them mild, and a further 18 close contacts (12 family and social contacts of the infected and six other employees of the firm) are in home quarantine.
Among the most worrying clusters are still those declared among groups of temporary agricultural workers in the provinces of Huesca and Lleida, which have more than 400 positives. Yesterday the regional government erected a field hospital, next to the most important medical center in the city of Lleida, to cope with the rising number of cases.
Today the UK has registered 544 new cases and 137 deaths.
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