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Two dead and 215 cases of coronavirus in Spain. Our country faces another day of struggle against the Covid-19 epidemic with a fortnight of cases, the most worrying, of unknown origin. Follow here the last hour of the coronavirus .

The data in Spain: 215 cases of coronavirus

  • 70 in Madrid , 7 imported and at least 7 linked to Torrejón, in the absence of more information on the new cases.
  • 22 in the Valencian Community (Includes a patient with dead pneumonia on February 13. A subsequent test revealed that he had the virus).
  • 28 in Catalonia (all imported).
  • 13 in Andalusia (two of them doctors and one discharged).
  • 17 in the Basque Country (two without confirmed origin) (one deceased)
  • 10 in Cantabria (all imported)
  • 8 in the Canary Islands (one discharged).
  • 12 in Castilla y León
  • 12 in Castilla-La Mancha .
  • 6 in Extremadura. (all imported)
  • 3 in La Rioja .
  • 5 in the Balearic Islands (one discharged).
  • 5 in Asturias .
  • 3 in Navarra .
  • 1 in Galicia .

8.57 Fifth positive for coronavirus in Asturias

The Ministry of Health the Principality has reported that a 48-year-old man is the fifth person who has tested positive for Covid-19 in Asturias . Health has applied the isolation protocol as to the other four patients.

With this there are already five patients with coronavirus in Asturias. The first was detected last Saturday, in a 70-year-old man who remains admitted to the Central University Hospital of Asturias (HUCA) , as well as the second and third positives, a 32-year-old man and an 85-year-old woman respectively. The room was detected Wednesday, a 48-year-old man.

8.48 The dead with coronavirus in Valencia was admitted very seriously by the ER and died in the ICU

The deceased patient who tested positive, post mortem , in the coronavirus test at the Arnau Hospital in Valencia on February 13 after traveling through Nepal entered through the emergency doors and presented a very serious pneumonia , as confirmed by doctors at the center located in the neighborhood of Beniferri .

His clinical picture, after his trip to Nepal, was so dramatic that it was installed in the only isolation zone of the 10 in intensive care at Arnau Hospital. Health investigates two other deaths in February due to pneumonia if they are related to the virus. [Read the full information here]

8.45 A 36-year-old cured patient dies

A 36-year-old man died of respiratory failure due to Covid-19 in Wuhan , capital of the Chinese province of Hubei , five days after being discharged from one of the hospitals built to contain the outbreak, the newspaper reports today South China Morning Post . [Read the full information here]

8.24 Identify two coronavirus strains

Scientists in China studying the coronavirus epidemic have discovered two major strains of the virus that causes infection in humans. Researchers at the University of Beijing and the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai warn that their study has only examined a limited range of data and that monitoring studies of larger datasets are needed to improve understanding of how the virus evolves, reports Reuters

The preliminary study has determined that the most aggressive strain of coronavirus is the one that affects approximately 70% of the cases analyzed, while 30% have a less aggressive type. The prevalence of the most aggressive type of virus has decreased since the beginning of January, they say.

2.30 State of emergency in California

The governor of California, Gavin Newsom , declared the state of emergency after the first death reported in the state: an elderly adult (no sex required), who was allegedly exposed to the virus on a cruise ship that departed from San Francisco to Mexico .

Newsom, who sent his condolences to his family, said that another patient who traveled on the same ship is under observation in a delicate state.

More than 50 people are infected in California , the highest number in the United States.

1.20 Coronavirus causes 31 more deaths in China

The deaths by COVID-19 in China increased in the last 24 hours in 31 people - 7 deaths less than in the previous day count - to add a total of 3,012 deaths, the National Health Commission reported today.

According to the latest official data, 139 new confirmed cases were also counted - for the 119 of the previous day -, which brings the number of infected so far in China to 80,409 .

All deaths were recorded in the province of Hubei , the focus of the epidemic, which accounted for 134 cases of the 139 new ones, so only five new infected were detected in the rest of China.

To date in Hubei there have been 2,902 deaths and 67,466 confirmed cases of infection.

Of the last 31 deaths in Hubei, 23 took place in its capital, Wuhan , which has been in quarantine since January 23.

The National Health Commission also reported today that in the same 24-hour period 2,189 people were discharged after overcoming the disease.

00.30 The balance of deaths from coronavirus rises to 11 in the US

Two deaths from the new coronavirus were reported on Wednesday in the United States, raising the balance in this country to 11 where Congress plans to approve resources for more than 8,000 million dollars to deal with the epidemic.

One death occurred in California and the other in the state of Washington , where the other nine deaths occurred, mostly concentrated in a nursing home near Seattle .

More than 130 people have been infected so far by the COVID-19 virus in more than a dozen states in the country.

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