- Contagios: The map of Covid-19 outbreaks in Spain
The World Health Organization (WHO) has every hope placed on the three coronavirus vaccines that are already in the "crucial" phase of the trials. They warn that there is no group immunity and that until there is no vaccine there will not be, so the body does not doubt that the processes must be accelerated so that there is a vaccine as soon as possible. And it is that the fear of a second wave of early coronavirus begins to increase throughout the world, especially in Spain where infections continue to increase and where new outbreaks continue to occur .
Coronavirus data in Spain
- * Source: Ministry of Health
- 73,944 in Madrid (8,450 dead)
- 72,919 in Catalonia (5,680 dead)
- 20,017 in Castilla y León (2,796 dead)
- 18,539 in Castilla-La Mancha (3,032 dead)
- 15,086 in the Basque Country (1,566 dead)
- 14,328 in Andalusia (1,436 dead)
- 12,442 in the Valencian Community (1,433 dead)
- 9,584 in Galicia (619 dead)
- 9,772 in Aragon (915 dead)
- 6,244 in Navarra (529 dead)
- 4,169 in La Rioja (366 dead)
- 3,302 in Extremadura (519 dead)
- 2,454 in Asturias (334 dead)
- 2,578 in the Canary Islands (162 dead)
- 2,419 in Cantabria (217 dead)
- 2,343 in the Balearic Islands (224 dead)
- 1,988 in Murcia (148 dead)
- 164 in Ceuta (4 dead)
- 129 in Melilla (2 dead)
Total figures: 272,421 cases of coronavirus diagnosed by PCR; 28,432 dead with positive test as of July 24
08.34. Catalonia closes discotheques and nightclubs from today to stop coronavirus outbreaks
The Catalan government has ordered the closure of all discotheques, dance halls and parties in the region (northeast of Spain) to try to fight the numerous outbreaks of the new coronavirus . The order takes effect this Saturday and will apply for two weeks. The prohibition also extends to any "musical activity with dance floors or enabled spaces" outside those establishments. Almost half of the new cases have been detected in Catalonia, where the authorities asked the almost four million residents of the Barcelona metropolitan area a week ago to stay home except in case of need.
08.20. Austria will request the result of a coronavirus test carried out three days before to enter the country
People who want to enter Austria from countries where the coronavirus pandemic is in a critical situation must provide the negative result of a Covid-19 diagnostic test carried out three days before, according to new regulations issued by the Ministry of Health that will take effect this Monday. The regulations imply that the validity time of the test in question has been shortened, since the Austrian authorities approved the entry into the country with a diagnostic test that was previously four days old.
08.19. A night party in Prague leaves 109 coronavirus infections
A party in a nightclub in Prague has left up to 109 coronavirus infections and 270 people are being quarantined, when cases are increasing throughout the Czech Republic . The Prague health officer, Zdenka Jagrova, has stated that the party was organized last Thursday, although she hopes that more cases related to this meeting can be confirmed. "It is a group of young people who got together and as they all have many activities and many contacts, the number of cases of the disease has increased to 109 to date," she said, according to the Czech news agency CTK.
08.18. The FDA authorizes the first test to detect asymptomatic cases of coronavirus
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the first coronavirus test to detect positive asymptomatic cases. "Today's authorization eliminates the need for a provider to consider risk factors such as exposure or spread across the community when prescribing this test," the agency said in a statement. Also, it has considered that this test could help hospitals, businesses and schools, among others.
07.33. Vietnam detects its first local spread of coronavirus in 99 days
Vietnam has confirmed its first case of local coronavirus infection in 99 days and has quarantined at least 50 people who were in direct contact with the patient, a 57-year-old man residing in Danang, in the center of the country. As confirmed by the Vietnamese Ministry of Health, the patient, who suffered the first symptoms of pneumonia on July 17, becomes the number 416 case of coronavirus in Vietnam after the positive result of the five tests he has undergone.
It is the first community contagion in the country since April 16; all the cases detected since then corresponded to Vietnamese repatriated from other countries or expert foreign workers, all of them quarantined in military units since their arrival in the country.
07.27. Three coronavirus vaccines enter the crucial phase of trials, which will take 6 months
Three potential coronavirus vaccines are in the decisive phase in which their preliminary results will have to be confirmed, which may take up to six months, according to the head of the scientific area of the World Health Organization (WHO), Soumya. Swaminathan. "Phase 3 is complex and takes time. A lot of people participate, an important follow-up is needed, but since the world is in a hurry for the pandemic, it is possible that if responses are obtained within six months, one will be satisfied," he said.
Experimental or "candidate" vaccines that pass phase 2 go to phase 3, "which is the most important because it is the one that gives the answer about whether or not the vaccine protects against the disease," Swaminathan explained. Tens of thousands of volunteers participate in this last stage and three vaccines are in it: the one developed by the American company Moderna , another that is a collaboration of the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, and the one produced by Cansino Biologics from China and that it is being tested in Brazil, the second country in the world with the most cases of coronavirus .
07.05. South Korea posts new record for imported coronavirus infections
South Korea has recorded 86 new coronavirus infections in travelers arriving in the country, most of them from Iraq and Russia , which is the highest number of imported infections recorded to date. Along with new infections spread within South Korea, the number of daily infections rose to 113, the highest number in three months, according to the Korea Center for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).
Local cases have gradually increased in recent days due to outbreaks detected in the Seoul metropolitan area, in a nursing home, in churches and on a military base, highlighting the difficulties in containing the virus in South Korea. South despite being considered one of the countries that has best managed the pandemic.
07.03. China adds 34 new coronavirus infections after detecting outbreaks in two cities
The Chinese National Health Commission has reported 34 new cases of coronavirus detected on Friday, of which 20 were registered in the northwestern province of Xinjiang and 9 in Liaoning province , which are both experiencing outbreaks. Consequently, their respective provincial capitals, Urumqi and Dalian, have put in place preventive measures such as confinements, closing of markets, suspension of transport and massive analysis campaigns to prevent the spread of the virus. On the other hand, the Asian country registered five new "imported" cases, two in the southern province of Guangzhou, two in the eastern city of Shanghai and one in the northern province of Inner Mongolia.
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