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The number of deaths from coronavirus drops again, standing at 102 new deaths in the last 24 hours. The official figures published by the Ministry of Health put the total number of official fatalities at 27,563 deaths since the epidemic began.

The new official report also shows a slight decrease in the number of positive cases diagnosed by PCR, which rose by 515 new cases compared to yesterday's figure and rose to 230,698 official cases.

As for the cured , which Health has renamed for days as "resolved infections" by adding in these figures both discharges for cure and all diagnoses by antibody tests, they now rise to 144,446 , after adding 337, a figure quite lower than yesterday.

The cumulative number of positive health professionals is 50,723 .

Test number

Just before the data came out, Healthcare has announced that Spain has carried out nearly two million PCR tests since the epidemic began. Specifically, the Autonomous Communities have notified that, until May 14, they have carried out a total of 1,919,411 PCR diagnostic tests.

In the last seven days, the Autonomous Communities have increased their capacity to carry out this type of diagnostic tests by 18%. In addition, the PCR rate carried out up to that date has grown to stand at 40.75 per 1,000 inhabitants.

Along with the PCR diagnostic tests performed, the Autonomous Communities report that they have also carried out a total of 1,118,429 rapid antibody tests, representing a rate of 23.75 per 1,000 inhabitants and an increase of 33% compared to the week previous. In the case of the Balearic Islands, this statistic includes CA serological tests. In total, 3,037,840 Covid-19 diagnostic tests have been performed so far.

The director of the Coordination Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies of the Ministry of Health, Fernando Simón, stressed that the control of the evolution of the epidemic is going "as expected". "There are no indications that indicate substantial changes," added the specialist, who stressed that "right now the transmission of the virus is really small."

Madrid, in phase 0

On Friday afternoon it was announced that the Community of Madrid will continue one more week in phase 0, despite being the second week in which it requests its progress. The request of the autonomous government has not been answered by the health authorities. The decision comes after an "important discussion", as Fernando Simón has confessed. "They have done an excellent job, but it has particular characteristics." Madrid, the Barcelona metropolitan area and Bajo Montseny and urban areas of Castilla y León continue for another week in phase 0.

On the contrary, Castilla-La Mancha in its entirety, the Valencian Community and the provinces of Malaga and Granada do go to phase 1. And since Monday, May 18, the islands of Formentera and Cabrera (Baleares) and those of La Graciosa and El Hierro (Canary Islands) will go on to phase 2.

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