ARCHIVED - Increase of 26,560 in Spanish Covid case total across the weekend

As there are no totals published over the weekend the rise is usually quite pronounced on a Monday

On Friday the Spanish Ministry of Health reported 566,326. cases of Covid-19.

No data is published at the weekend, so the next set of data was published on Monday evening, covering both Saturday and Sunday and up to 14:00 on Monday, and totalled 593,730, a difference of 27,404.

Even if the new total is spread across the three days, this still gives an average of 9,134 cases a day. although the fact that the total number of new cases this weekend was "only" 844 more than across last weekend is being seen as a positive indicator that the speed of the acceleeration is slowing somewhat.

With this level of cases though, it's always dangerous to be complacent and with the WHO warning that there are likely to be considerably more deaths as the weather cools down and we all retreat indoors, it's certainly too early to be making optimistic noises about the evolution of this "second wave".

Regardless of whether 28,000 new cases in just 3 days is positive or not, other indicators do make this questionable. For example, the cumulative incidence, which measures the number of cases in the last 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants, broke yet another record this weekend, with  247.66 positives per 100,000, practically double the figure a month ago.

Fatalities: Over the weekend 101 people have died from coronavirus in Spain, and 207 in the last week, bringing the total up to 29,848.

Hospitalisations
The number of people hospitalized due to the epidemic in the last week is 1,976. Andalusia is the autonomous region that has registered the most hospitalizations in the last seven days, with 350. It is followed by Madrid (339), Castilla-León and Murcia with 178 each, and Galicia (170). The hospitalization rate continues to rise; from 7.5% on Friday to 8.5%.

At this time, a total of 9,044 patients remain admitted for COVID-19. In the last week, 138 people have been admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

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Headlines from today:

Public prosecutor asks the Supreme Court to reject complaints made against the Government for its handling of the Covid crisis. The Public Prosecutor's Office has asked the Supreme Court not to admit  the more than twenty complaints that have been filed throughout the state of alarm against members of the Government for their management of the coronavirus pandemic.

Catalonia documents 4 re-infections of Covid-19, one of them a doctor, now in a serious condition.

Cantabria reports 108 new cases

Gathering of 40 young people broken up in Sevilla during a weekend in which 500 denuncias were issued for not wearing masks, exceeding group limits etc.

29 million cases worldwide and 924,000 deaths; WHO

The Generalitat in Catalonia requests that the residents of Girona y Salt remain in their homes and effectively return to phase 1 measures.

Floor in Canary Islands hospital isolated following outbreak of 10 cases in the Hospital Insular de Gran Canaria.

Valencia: Outbreak in a residence in Alzira (Valencia). The Centro de día Carmen Picó de Alzira detected 17 cases amongst users and 6 amongst staff.

Cases in Madrid fall, but fatalities increase: In the last 24 hours Madrid has notified 705 new positives as opposed to 974, but deaths have risen from 26 yesterday to 33 in the last 24 hours.

Outbreak in Balearic Islands prison: The Las Palmas II prison, in the south of Gran Canaria, has suffered an outbreak of coronavirus  affecting about thirty inmates of the women's module. The Ministry of the Interior decided to screen all the inmates of that module of the jail in the town of Juan Grande, after verifying that one had been infected with COVID-19.

Sauna with a hundred people in the center of Madrid
On Sunday the National Police evicted over 100 men from a sauna, located in the center of Madrid, in which police found a hundred men not wearing masks, The agents arrested eight of them who had a large amount of narcotic substances and sexual stimulants.
21 denuncias were entred for the for possession of narcotics and sexueal stimulents, according to the Superior Police Headquarters in a note.
Eight men, four of them Spanish, three Italians, one Venezuelan and one Chinese, with ages ranging between 52 and 30 years were arrested as alleged perpetrators of a drug trafficking crime.

The sauna is a popular haunt with the homosexual community.

More than 7.6 million PCR tests carried out in Spain to date.

79 positives at a wedding in Segovia

Use of public transport in Barcelona down 43% since start of pandemic.

645 new positives in Andalucia and six deaths in last 24 hours.

Government open to plan to extend ERTE temporary redundancy scheme until January.

Back to school:

More than 212 schools with incidents across Spain today.

Madrid school closes two classrooms at pre-school for babies after teachers diagnosed positive.

School closes in Pontevedra after eight staff members test positive

A total of 46 school groups in Navarra are confined
A total of 46 school groups in Navarra have been confined due to the appearance of positive cases of coronavirus in students. The new confinement decisions have been communicated from last Saturday until the early hours of the afternoon of this Monday, September 14th, and affect a total of 946 students from 36 educational centers, the Regional Executive reported in a statement.
The percentage of confined students is 2.44% with respect to the total of the Infant and Primary school population (61,450 students) and the groups of schoolchildren who must remain at home account for 2.24% with respect to the 3,386 groups of Infant and Primary existing in Navarre educational centers.

7 further classrooms shut down in Cantabria, bringing the total to 12: Seven new positives among students and teachers from different educational centers in Cantabria have forced the classrooms in which they have been detected to be quarantined, bringing the total to 12 in the region. The new cases  have occurred in Infant and Primary (five) and, for the first time since this school year began, also in ESO (two), as reported by the regional government.

13 classes quarantined in Extremadura following positive coronavirus tests.

23 classes confined in Castilla y León.