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In the fight to break the contagion curve (today's data shows that 5,183 people have been infected with the coronavirus in Spain , 3% more), the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, calls for "acting with caution" in relaxing the restrictions while his government colleagues are completing the Minimum Life Income that should have been presented today at a press conference, according to Vice President Pablo Iglesias yesterday. However, it is still "working at forced marches" to have it closed , as Minister José Luis Escrivá has corrected him so that 3 million people are benefited . For his part, Aitor Esteban(PNV), who will meet this afternoon with Pedro Sánchez in Moncloa, who intends to reach "a country pact for the social and economic reconstruction of Spain ", has already said that he does not see any need for a pact . Meanwhile, China, the country that caused the pandemic that has more than 2 million people sick with coronavirus , says that "there is no evidence" that Covid-19 came out of a laboratory in the Asian country.
Coronavirus data in Spain
Source: Ministry of Health
Total figures: 182,816 diagnosed coronavirus cases, 19,130 deaths
15:31 Coronavirus: Portugal exceeds 600 dead while it already raises a "gradual opening" of services and companies
More than 600 people have died from the coronavirus pandemic in Portugal, whose president, Marceo Rebelo de Sousa, has already proposed in the decree extending the state of emergency the "gradual or intercalated opening of services, companies and commercial establishments".
The Ministry of Health has registered since Wednesday 750 new infected and 30 more dead, which brings the provisional balance of infected and deceased to 18,841 and 629, respectively. Of the sick, about 1,300 are admitted to hospitals, 229 of them in intensive care units, according to the public channel RTP, reports Europa Press.
15:15 Almeida supports Aguado's proposal that children go out at least one hour a day on the street
The mayor of Madrid reaffirms himself in the proposal "if the authorities consider it pertinent" and establishing the "health situation as a priority". Read the complete information of Pablo R. Roces .
14:51 The EVAU in Madrid will be held at Ifema if it is finally done in person
The students of 2º of Bachillerato of the Community of Madrid that this year appear to the Evaluation for the Access to the University (EvAU) will realize the examination in Ifema if finally it can be done in person. The announcement was made this Thursday by the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who assures that it is a "wide" and "safe" place.
Due to the coronavirus crisis, the Selectivity date has been delayed by one month, until July 6, 7 and 8 in ordinary call. The play-off for those who fail will take place on September 8, 9 and 10, reports Marta Belver .
14:45 Madrid Metro places stickers on the platforms marking the distance between commuters due to the coronavirus
Metro de Madrid has begun to place vinyls on the floor of the platforms of stations throughout the network with the aim of marking the interpersonal safety distance that travelers must keep while waiting for the arrival of the train. One more measure with which the suburban intends to stop the spread of coronavirus and guarantee the safety of users and workers. Read Virginia Gómez's complete information .
14:39 The MIR evaluations will begin this Thursday and end on May 28
The Supreme Court has rejected this Thursday the precautionary measure filed by the State Confederation of Medical Unions (CESM) against the ministerial order of Health that left in the air the evaluations of the resident doctors, reports Angela Martialay . This judicial decision occurs in parallel to the rectification of the Ministry of Salvador Illa through the publication of the new Order SND / 346/2020 in the Official State Gazette. Finally, the evaluations of the residents, whatever the specialty in which they are carrying out specialized health training and whatever the year they are studying, may start from today. Likewise, the Executive establishes May 28, 2020 as the final date of residence or training year.
14:29 Ayuso: "Madrid cannot afford to rebound or go back again" in the coronavirus crisis
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, said on Thursday that the region cannot afford "a rebound or go back again" in the coronavirus crisis. "There has been a very painful moment, surely the most difficult since the Civil War, health professionals have been 24 hours a day watching how people died in their hands and we do not want to recover that situation," he said on a visit to the field hospital of Ifema.
Regarding the debate on whether the confinement of children should be made more flexible, the regional leader pointed out that she is aware that "they are having a very bad time" and that she understands the situation in which families find themselves "especially in interior, small houses " And he added: "That is why we have to apologize because we are experiencing an epidemic that still has no cure and we are learning as we go."
The epidemiological services of the Community of Madrid have determined this Thursday that, with the numbers of contagion and current patients, it cannot allow lack of confinement for minors in the region, given that the "relevance" of this population group when transmitting the disease is "clear", reports Marta Belver .
14.09 The autonomies of the PP against the Celaá plan in the coronavirus crisis
Three autonomous communities governed by the PP (Andalusia, Murcia and Madrid) "are not going to sign" the agreement to close the school year that the minister Isabel Celaá proposed this Wednesday to the educational advisers. This has been explained by popular sources and by these Autonomous Communities, which point out that the draft ministerial order that allows students to pass the course in a generalized way, even with suspended subjects, regulates aspects that "will increase the" educational disparity by region and " will generate more inequality "in the students.
Communities of the PP say that they will not sign the Celaá agreement that allows students to pass the course in a generalized way
14.03 85% remain at home during confinement due to coronavirus
More than 85% of Spaniards remain in their area of residence during the state of alarm, a figure that exceeds 90% during the validity of the recoverable paid leave, according to data from the INE, reports Eduardo Fernández . Interior sanctions: from 1,500 euros for going to the second residence to 10,400 for having a party
13.54 Rebound of deaths in Andalusia due to coronavirus
Those killed by Covid-19 rebound in Andalusia, but the new ones cured already double those who are infected. In the last 24 hours, 212 new cases of coronavirus have been registered in the community and 410 patients have been cured. Those killed by Covid-19 rebound in Andalusia, but the new ones cured already double those who are infected
13.50 Lee Konitz dies at 92 years of coronavirus
American saxophonist Lee Konitz, a jazz legend and the last surviving member of the team that recorded Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool (1957), has died at the age of 92 from Covid-19 pneumonia. Saxophonist Lee Konitz, jazz and improvised music legend, dies of the coronavirus
13.25 The IMF asks not to add "uncertainty" about Brexit to the coronavirus
The director general of the International Monetary Fund has called for an extension of the deadline to negotiate the post-Brexit relationship of the European Union with the United Kingdom , urging not to "add" more pressure to the "unprecedented uncertainty" caused by the pandemic of coronavirus.
"I hope that decision-makers everywhere think of reducing uncertainty . It is quite difficult that way, we try not to make things more difficult," Kristalina Georgieva argued in an interview with the British channel BBC, collected by Afp.
Negotiators in London and Brussels indicated that talks on the new EU-UK relationship after Brexit would resume on April 20 "to achieve real and tangible progress" between now and June.
13.14 Controversy with the inclusion of those killed in Catalonia by coronavirus
Regarding the non-inclusion of deceased in residences made public by Catalonia, the director of Alerts and Health Emergencies, Fernando Simón, has defended "you have to be very careful with the adjectives that join the figures , reports Laura G. Ibañes .
"The actual number for coronavirus is very difficult to know. We have to assess with them whether these people have a previous diagnosis of coronavirus or not . " Simón has returned to the statements of the beginning of the crisis to warn that all in all it would be people who would have died "with coronavirus" and that would not imply that it was "due to coronavirus".
13.00 Salvador Illa's objectives against the coronavirus
"Continue to control transmission with an emphasis on the early diagnosis and isolation of cases, and attend to the non-urgent health needs that the reorganization of the system due to the emergency has forced to delay" are the two objectives in the following phases that the Health Minister, Salvador Illa, in his appearance in the Congress of Deputies, according to Manuel Fernández Bustelo.
12.43 40,000 coronavirus PCRs are performed daily
Fernando Simón, director of Alerts and Health Emergencies, has defended that the increase of almost 3% that has occurred in the number of new cases is due to the rise in tests: "we are carrying out 40,000 PCRs a day, double the number of we were doing in previous weeks and that puts us in a communication commitment, but in good health news due to the important effort to locate and isolate minor cases early, "reports Laura G. Ibañes.
12.40 "Continued decline" in Spain of the coronavirus
The director of Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón, has clung in his initial comment again to the ICU and hospitalized data "where we are seeing a continued decline, with an increase of only 1.3% of hospitalized and 1 , 4% in the ICU ".
Simón has said that we have to communicate, with all 551 new "deceased notified by the autonomous communities" , but he has not made any reference to the omission of data on deceased outside the hospital setting, reports Laura G. Ibañes.
12.34 Dies after falling through a window of a residence in Alcobendas
A 76-year-old man, interned in a nursing home in Alcobendas (Madrid), died this Thursday morning after rushing through a window in the center. The deceased was sick with coranaviruses, as confirmed by the Police to this newspaper, which investigates the causes of the event.
The same sources have pointed out that the man has fallen from a second floor. He had not left any farewell letter, although the Police are considering the suicide hypothesis.
The residence where the man lived, Orpea Alcobendas, has recently been denounced by 59 family members and inmates after at least 17 deaths have occurred in the center in the last month. 76-year-old man with coronavirus dies after falling from a window in a residence reported by family members
12.22 "Whenever possible" children will go outside
"It is necessary to act with caution and when possible, the children will be able to go out into the streets, " explained the Minister of Snidad, Salvador Illa, in his fourth appearance in the Congress of Deputies , since the coronavirus pandemic began, as reported by Manuel Fernández Bustelo.
According to today's data on the incidence of Covid-19, there is a 2.9% increase in the number of those infected. The minister recalled that two weeks ago the increase was 7%. "Since March 25, the trend has been declining and this has become more pressing in April," he said.
In addition, he stressed that in the last two weeks the increase in income in ICUs has decreased.
In his opinion, "the two objectives of the last weeks have been met: the number of cases has been reduced and the critical and critically ill patients have been responded to."
12.07 Coronavirus deaths rise
In the last 24 hours, the deaths from coronavirus increased by 551 deaths, more than on Wednesday, up to a total of 19,130, according to Health data, which does not include the increase in deaths recorded in Catalonia. The number of those infected grows by 5,183 people (more than yesterday in a single day) to 182,816. People who have been cured of Covid-19 number 74,797.
Slight rise in the number of deaths from coronavirus: 551 deaths in 24 hours
11.56 The coronavirus storm is over Europe
Europe is currently at the center of the Covid-19 pandemic storm, with a number of cases approaching one million , the European regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday, Reuters reported.
" The number of cases across the region continues to rise . In the past 10 days, the number of reported cases in Europe has almost doubled to around one million," said Hans Kluge of the WHO.
This means that about 50% of the worldwide cargo of Covid-19 was in Europe, Kluge said. More than 84,000 people in Europe have died in the epidemic , he said.
Although some countries were entering a period when they could gradually ease restrictions, "there is no quick way to return to normal," he warned.
11.45 The Govern cancels its daily press conference on the coronavirus
The Minister of Health of the Generalitat, Alba Vergés, has canceled her daily appearance before the media after admitting that the actual number of deaths in Catalonia exceeds 7,000 and doubles the official figure. The new data was recognized yesterday at 11 at night through a press release, just a few hours after EL MUNDO denounced that the Generalitat was hiding the real number of deaths by not publishing the count of the funeral homes , reports Víctor Mndelo .
Meanwhile, the President of the Generalitat, Quim Torra, has offered a press conference reserved exclusively for international media in which he has assured that until now "they did not have this information." Journalists in Catalonia are forwarding their complaints to the Government for their strategy of information obstruction. The Generalitat changes its method of calculation and raises the deaths from coronavirus to 7,097
11.43 A Marshall Plan for the EU for the coronavirus
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, defended this Thursday that the European Union needs "immediately" a 'Marshall Plan' to overcome the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic in the bloc and has pointed to the European budget for the next seven years, which the 27 must still negotiate, as the "only instrument" with which to respond to the urgency.
"The European budget will be the flagship of the recovery and for that reason the budget for the next seven years must be different from what we had imagined," warned the German conservative in a debate in the extraordinary plenary session of the European Parliament held in Brussels. Europa Press.
11.37 Criticism of Trump for Naming Coronavirus Aid Checks
The Democratic leader of the US Congress, Nancy Pelosi, considered "shameful" that the name of President Donald Trump appears on aid checks for citizens affected by the coronavirus crisis, while the president has denied that this decision delayed the sending of those subsidies. Criticism of Trump for printing his name on coronavirus aid checks
11.32 Coronavirus masks intervene to resell
The Badajoz Local Police has intervened 35,500 masks in a ship in the Polígono 'El Nevero' ready for sale "without approval and without proving its provenance." The intervention came after agents observed a suspicious sale in a Chinese warehouse. In an ocular inspection of the interior of the premises, the masks are located. All the material has been delivered to the Government Delegation of Extremadura, reports David Vigario.
11.21 A 99-year-old Briton raises more than 12 million to fight the coronavirus
British Tom Moore, a 99-year-old war veteran, managed to raise more than 12 million euros on Thursday to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, which will be entirely destined to finance public health in the United Kingdom.
Moore, whose challenge has gone viral and has aroused great admiration in the United Kingdom, managed today, with the help of a walker, to finish the hundred laps around his garden, which started last week, Efe says.
The old man, who has been described as "a source of inspiration," said he wanted to make this gesture in gratitude for the service he received when he fractured his hip and was cured of cancer.
His initial goal was to raise about 1,100 euros for the NHS, as the British national health system is known, but his expectations have been exceeded thanks to donations from more than 600,000 people. A 99-year-old Briton raises over 12 million to fight Covid-19 by circling his garden
11.16 Germany adds again infected and killed by coronavirus
The pandemic of the new coronavirus that originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan has left more than 130,000 people infected in Germany and killed more than 3,500, according to the latest report by the Robert Koch Institute, the German government agency responsible for monitoring contagious diseases.
In the last 24 hours, Germany has added 2,866 new cases of coronavirus and 269 deaths , bringing the balance to 130,450 people infected and 3,569 fatalities from the pandemic, reports Europa Press.
11.12 The students of 2 of Bachillerato, the first to return to the classrooms in Madrid
The Minister of Education of the Community of Madrid, Enrique Ossorio, said on Thursday that they are considering "different systems of returning to classes", such as, for example, "starting first with those of the 2nd year of Bachillerato, who are the most needy for the tests of the EvAU, those of 4º of the ESO , that also title this year "and " those of FP that they title ".
The Madrid counselor has criticized that the Ministry of Education has left "the edge of each autonomous community that dictates how many suspended students it is entitled", because from one autonomy to another "those titles are worth the same", and has assured that in Madrid it will be with "zero suspense", said Ossorio in an interview in Onda Madrid collected by Europa Press. The Community of Madrid is considering a gradual return to the classrooms: first 2nd of Bachillerato and 4th of ESO
11.02 Esteban does not want new Moncloa Pacts for the coronavirus
The PNV spokesman in Congress, Aitor Esteban, has stated this Thursday that he does not see the need to achieve new Moncloa pacts to face the consequences of the health crisis caused by Covid-19, as stated by the Prime Minister. Pedro Sánchez, if they are not "to get out of a bad economic situation", since, in his opinion, "this situation cannot be used for other issues such as recentralization ." For the PNV, the important thing is to negotiate new General State Budgets if you do not want to go to elections, says Europa Press. Esteban meets this afternoon with Sánchez in the round that the President of the Government begins between the political parties to reach "a country pact for the social and economic reconstruction of Spain."
10.48 Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda dies of coronavirus
Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda has died in Oviedo after contracting coronavirus disease. Luis Sepúlveda dies of coronavirus at age 71
10.43 A departure time for children during confinement due to coronavirus
The vice president of the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Aguirre, today insisted on the possibility that children can leave the house for an hour a day accompanied by an adult during confinement due to the coronavirus epidemic when it is a month of confinement in our houses despite the fact that the president Isabel Díaz Ayuso knocked down yesterday the proposal to make this measure more flexible.
"For children, so many days locked up at home can lead to a health problem," Aguado said in an interview at Cope. Aguado thus joins the cry of Ada Colau, the mayoress of Barcelona, "Free the children !, with which she also asks to let the children go outdoors. Ayuso takes down the proposal of Cs to make the confinement of children more flexible by the coronavirus
10.40 The requirements for the self-employed in the coronavirus crisis
The Community of Madrid has set the requirements to be able to access the payment of the autonomous contributions for the months of March and April included in the rescue plan against the coronavirus approved by the regional government. Among them is the ability to prove a decrease in turnover of at least 30% since the start of the crisis. These are the requirements to be able to access the payment of the self-employed quotas for March and April in Madrid due to the coronavirus crisis
10.35 Churches now says that "there are meetings" for the Vital Income due to the coronavirus
The second vice president of Social Rights, Pablo Iglesias, has acknowledged that there are still meetings with the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration of José Luis Escrivá to "finish defining all the details" of the Minimum Vital Income, after the department that directs the leader of Unidas Podemos announced yesterday that this Thursday he was going to present the measure to the media together with Escrivá, reports Europa Press.
10.33 Infanta Elena's 'Resistiré' to the coronavirus crisis
Infanta Elena (56), confined to her apartment in the Retiro neighborhood, does not go out every afternoon at 8:00 pm to applaud the anonymous heroes of this crisis, has hung on her terrace a drawing of a rainbow with the messages "thank you health services" and "everything will be fine", but is one of the thousands of citizens who have sung in this month of confinement due to the coronavirus epidemic the song that is already their anthem: I will resist . The Infanta Elena sings Resistiré with some friends and they hang it on YouTube
10.12 "Exceptional measure" if the face-to-face EvAU is not held
If the EvAU test (former Selectivity) cannot be held in person, the Government will adopt an "exceptional measure", said the Minister of Education, Isabel Celaá, without specifying more, in an interview in Antena 3, where she clarified the latest decisions taken since his ministry by the coronavirus pandemic that has left all students in the country, from childhood to university, without classes in classrooms this school year. "If the sanitary conditions are opened there will be a face-to-face EvAU, if it is not possible a plan B would have to be arbitrated," he said.
The minister wanted to clarify that the school year will not continue in July, but schools will be given the option to open their classes if they so agree, but in no case will it be a school month. As for the fees paid by parents of private and concerted schools when face-to-face classes are not being held, Celaá has said that they will speak to these centers, without specifying more. Isabel Celaá defends "general promotion" and says that students will not fail the third quarter of the course
09.36 "No evidence" that the coronavirus originated in a laboratory in China
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Thursday that the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that there is no evidence that the coronavirus that has infected more than 2 million people worldwide has been made in a laboratory, Reuters reports.
Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian made the comment in response to a question about the allegations that the coronavirus originated from a laboratory in the central Chinese city of Wuhan , where the epidemic first emerged in late 2019.
09.31 Meet your baby after giving birth in a coma for coronavirus
A 36-year-old woman with New York coronavirus has been able to see for the first time the baby she had given birth to 11 days earlier by emergency caesarean section while in an induced coma. The exciting first encounter between a mother with a coronavirus who gave birth in a coma and her 11-day-old baby
09.20 Business confidence, sunk in the coronavirus crisis
The Harmonized Business Confidence Index (ICEA) for this second quarter of this year has stood at 95.5, which is its lowest value since the beginning of the series, in 2013 , as reported today by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
This meter plummets 26.9% compared to this first quarter of 2020 , and has been carried out after the declaration of the state of alarm, from March 16 to April 3, says the INE, according to Servimedia.
3.1% of managers of business establishments consider that the performance of their business will be favorable in the second quarter of 2020, while 75.1% believe that it will be unfavorable and the remaining 21.8% consider that it will be normal. Record pessimism in companies: 75% expect a negative second quarter
08.58 "Working at forced marches" in the Vital Minimum due to the coronavirus crisis
More than a million households will benefit from the Minimum Vital Income, José Luis Escrivá, half of them, with children, assured the Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security. He has not quantified in euros what the implementation of this measure will mean but he has described it as "significant" and it will be a Social Security benefit.
In addition Escrivá, who has admitted that it will mean an increase in public debt, has said that "it is probable" that the details of this minimum income can be presented today, in which "work is underway" along with the second vice president of Social Rights. , Pablo Iglesias, as he explained in an interview on Cadena Ser .
"The design is very advanced and in order to assess the number of households that will be benefited, data is being crossed with Social Security and the Tax Agency , " said the minister, who has encrypted the beneficiaries "above one million. of households, half with children. " José Luis Escrivá estimates that 3 million people will be able to receive this income .
Iglesias and Sánchez reached an agreement for this aid to start working in May, as requested by the vice president. The Government designs the minimum income for three million people and trusts that it will not be a brake to seek employment
08.45 "Free our children!", Colau's cry in the coronavirus crisis
The Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, has asked to take children into account in the confinement due to the coronavirus pandemic and to allow them to take a walk near their homes, keeping the same distances as adults when making purchases. .
"Wait no more: Free our children!", She wrote on her Facebook profile collected by Europa Press, convinced that "they need to get out."
The Mayor of Barcelona, mother of two children, has questioned why children have to keep waiting at home when adults are allowed to walk with a dog .
08.40 China continues with local infections of coronavirus
Twelve cases of locally transmitted Covid-19 have been confirmed on Thursday by the Chinese Ministry of Health , four of them in Heilongjiang province and five in Canton, as well as three in Beijing, while another 34 positive ones have been registered. from abroad, reports Xinhua / EP.
The death toll remains at 3,342, according to the latest balance of the authorities, and the number of imported cases has increased to 1,534.
08.28 Each country, a major de-escalation in the coronavirus crisis
Austria is trying to consolidate the return to the so-called "new normal" pending its Covid-19 infection data but also amid growing criticism for the unconstitutionality of some of the measures taken to curb the epidemic.
In the United Kingdom, the British Government decides whether to prolong confinement until May 7 , when the legal deadline for reviewing the imposed measures is met.
In Italy, the first country in the world with the most deaths (about 22,000), the slowdown in infections is confirmed and hospitals are decongested, while the Government and the regions continue to study how to carry out the "de-escalation" as of May .
08.20 Swedish model against coronavirus falters
Sweden has distinguished itself in Europe for adopting a flexible approach to the coronavirus epidemic , but experts are now wondering if the model is appropriate, as the country's balance of victims is much more alarming than that of its Nordic neighbors. .
The country has surpassed the threshold of 1,000 deaths from Covid-19, of which 11,445 cases were officially registered, a very high death rate compared to that observed in Finland, Denmark or Norway.
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has admitted that "[the country's] preparation was not good enough , " Afp reports.
08.05 The Coronavirus Management Committee expands
From today the four vice presidents of the Government (Carmen Calvo, Pablo Iglesias, Nadia Calviño and Teresa Ribera) join the daily meetings that the Technical Management Committee holds under the current state of alarm, a command panel chaired by the President of the Government and of which only the four ministers designated as competent authorities delegated under the alarm (Health, Defense, Interior and Transport) were part of to date. Also joining the Minister of Finance and spokesperson, María Jesús Montero.
Teresa Ribera will also coordinate a newly created committee charged with evaluating measures to relax the alarm state .
07.30 Trump promises a plan to get out of the quarantine for coronavirus
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has promised to deliver today his roadmap for the progressive reactivation of the US economy , paralyzed by the coronavirus, and affirmed that his country, the most hit in the world by the pandemic, probably already " passed the peak "of infections.
"Tomorrow will be a great day, " the president said on the White House lawn, promising Thursday the details of this "reopening of the economy," reports Afp.
"We are going to open the states, some states much earlier than others," he said, raising the possibility that some cases the economic reopening will begin before May 1.
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