The Congress of Deputies will approve this Thursday the Decree for the New Normality with the question of the meaning of the vote of the Popular Party. Meanwhile, at the health level, concern continues for small outbreaks of the Covid-19 virus in various parts of Spain.

Coronavirus data in Spain

    * Source: Ministry of Health

    Total figures: 247,086 cases of coronavirus diagnosed by PCR; 28,327 deaths with positive test

  • 71,434 in Madrid (8,416 deaths)
  • 60,847 in Catalonia (5,666 deaths)
  • 19,563 in Castilla y León (2,780 dead)
  • 17,987 in Castilla-La Mancha (3,022 dead)
  • 13,742 in the Basque Country (1,555 dead)
  • 12,917 in Andalusia (1,426 dead)
  • 11,501 in the Valencian Community (1,432 dead)
  • 9,178 in Galicia (619 dead)
  • 6,060 in Aragon (911 dead)
  • 5,426 in Navarra (528 dead)
  • 4,073 in La Rioja (365 dead)
  • 3,017 in Extremadura (519 dead)
  • 2,435 in Asturias (333 dead)
  • 2,421 in the Canary Islands (162 dead)
  • 2,351 in Cantabria (216 dead)
  • 2,189 in the Balearic Islands (224 dead)
  • 1,655 in Murcia (147 dead)
  • 164 in Ceuta (4 dead)
  • 126 in Melilla (2 dead)

08.57 The UN warns of the "potentially serious" impact of the return of migrant workers to their countries

The International Labor Organization (ILO) has warned this Wednesday that the return of migrant workers to their countries of origin in a "short period of time" may have a "potentially serious" social and economic impact in the context of the pandemic. of COVID-19.

The agency, which has emphasized the need to reintegrate people returning to the labor market from their countries of origin, estimates that "tens of millions of migrant workers" from low- and middle-income countries who have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic are forced to return to their homes.

This situation puts governments, especially those of Asia and Africa, "on alert". Furthermore, the situation in the labor markets of these countries was already "fragile" before the coronavirus.

08.29 Australia deploys more than a thousand soldiers in Melbourne after an outbreak

The Australian government will deploy more than a thousand soldiers in the state of Victoria, the second most populous country in the oceanic country, to help contain the recent outbreak of COVID-19, Defense Minister Linda Reynolds announced Thursday.

The government of Victoria, whose capital is Melbourne, asked for military aid on Wednesday night after registering for more than a week between 13 and 25 daily cases of the new coronavirus, mainly by local infections, in addition to announcing that same day the first death from COVID-19 in over a month in Australia.

About 850 soldiers will guard the hotels, where travelers entering Australia must remain in mandatory 14-day quarantine, while another 200 will provide logistical and medical support in efforts to conduct COVID-19 screening, according to a statement. Reynolds.

07.53 Mexico approaches 200,000 cases and 25,000 deaths from coronavirus

The Ministry of Health of Mexico has confirmed this Wednesday 196,847 cases of coronavirus and 24,324 due to COVID-19, waiting for this Friday the authorities to confirm the new situation of the epidemiological traffic light, and have highlighted the low incidence in the community indigenous.

The general director of Epidemiology, José Luis Alomía, has specified that 5,437 new cases and 947 additional deaths have been registered, with Mexico City with more than 44,000 accumulated cases, and the State of Mexico with just over 31,075, as the most affected entities.

07.41 Beijing registers 13 of the 19 new cases of coronavirus in China

The Chinese National Health Commission reported today that the outbreak in Beijing added 13 new cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus on Wednesday (they were 7 on the eve) of the total of 19 that were registered in the whole country (12 the day previous).

All the positives diagnosed in the Chinese capital were caused by local contagion, as well as one more infection in the northeast province of Hebei, bringing the total of contagions to 14, the health authorities detailed in their report today.

On the other hand, the contagions from abroad, the so-called "imported" cases, were 5, and were detected in the provinces of Gansú (center-north, 3), Canton (southeast, 1) and Shaanxi (center, 1)

07.25 Madrid will allow starting this Thursday to pay simple bus tickets with cash again

The Madrid Regional Transport Consortium is going to issue a resolution so that, starting this Thursday, the cash can be used again to buy single tickets on buses on the Community of Madrid's public transport network.

In any case, as explained by sources from the Ministry of Transport to Europa Press, it maintains the recommendation that preferential use be made of other means: use of transport tickets already loaded (transport passes, Multi cards, 10-trip tickets) or payment by electronic means in vehicles where that possibility exists.

07.12 The Congress will approve today the decree of 'new normality' with the doubt of the vote of the Popular Party

The decree of the 'new normality' will receive the majority support of Congress this Thursday thanks to the votes in favor of the government partners, PSOE and United Podemos, and those of their allies in the extensions of the state of alarm, especially Cs and PNV, while the unknown about the PP's position persists.

His decision is expected to be a "yes" because it is what the leader of the popular, Pablo Casado, has pointed to, both on Tuesday and on Wednesday.

First, he stated that his party was "willing" to support the new normal decree if the Executive accepted some of its proposals to reinforce the health system, many of them included in what it has called "the Cajal Pact", in tribute to the doctor and researcher Santiago Ramón y Cajal.

Later, in Congress, in the control session to the Government, he said that the PP "can" give its "ok" to the compendium of measures of that decree, without specifying more. Decree that, although it is already in force, must pass the process of validation or repeal of the full Congress, which is what will take place this Thursday.

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