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Again, the number of coronavirus infections returns to the level of last week. The figures published by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday recorded a significant increase with 263 new cases , 99 more than on the previous day when 164. were reported. Most of these positives are concentrated in Aragon, with 81; Catalonia, with 66; and Andalusia, with 26 .

The case of Asturias is striking , since it had been 15 days without registering any contagion. Today, however, it has notified five, thus breaking with this trend.

The number of deaths in the last hours continues along the same lines as the previous days and three new deaths have been reported (the same as on Monday), so that there are already 28,409 people who have lost their lives to the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic. This data excludes deaths from residences and those who had symptoms compatible with Covid-19 but did not undergo a diagnostic test. With death date in the last week, the official count reports eight deceased.

The community that has concentrated the most deaths this past week is Castilla y León, which has reported three; and Andalusia, Castilla La Mancha, Catalonia, Madrid and the Basque Country, one. The rest of the regions have not recorded any deaths.

Regarding hospitalizations , 165 people have been admitted in the last seven days (146 the previous day). Of these, eleven patients have entered the ICU in the last week (the same as on Friday) and five in the last 24 hours. Thus, the total admissions in this hospital unit increases to 11,721.

At the European level , Spain remains in third position by number of infections (256,619), only behind Russia (739,947) and the United Kingdom (290,133). Italy and Turkey continue in fourth and fifth position, with 243,230 and 214,001 infections, respectively. The country with the highest number of deaths is still the United Kingdom (44,830), followed by Italy (34,967) and France (30,029).

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