• Outbreaks: Daily infections have multiplied by eight during July: from 388 to more than 3,000
  • Covid-19 Spain, the European country with the highest excess mortality during the pandemic

290,000 new cases in 24 hours. It is the latest figure in the coronavirus pandemic that has been spreading throughout the planet for months. The data, recorded by the WHO for the day on Friday, shows how slow and complicated the global recovery will be. The evolution in Spain is also worrying, where daily infections have multiplied by eight throughout July and where the highest excess mortality due to Covid-19 is verified .

Coronavirus data in Spain

    * Source: Ministry of Health

    Total figures: 288,522 cases of coronavirus diagnosed by PCR; 28,445 dead with positive test as of July 31

  • 79,324 in Catalonia (5,686 deaths)
  • 76,145 in Madrid (8,453 dead)
  • 20,310 in Castilla y León (2,798 dead)
  • 18,743 in Castilla-La Mancha (3,032 dead)
  • 16,149 in the Basque Country (1,566 dead)
  • 15,107 in Andalusia (1,435 dead)
  • 13,318 in the Valencian Community (1,436 dead)
  • 12,685 Aragon (915 dead)
  • 9,717 in Galicia (619 dead)
  • 6,666 in Navarra (529 dead)
  • 4,200 in La Rioja (366 dead)
  • 3,373 in Extremadura (520 dead)
  • 2,631 in the Canary Islands (162 dead)
  • 2,545 in the Balearic Islands (224 dead)
  • 2,516 in Asturias (334 dead)
  • 2,469 in Cantabria (217 dead)
  • 2,326 in Murcia (148 dead)
  • 166 in Ceuta (4 dead)
  • 132 in Melilla (2 dead)

8.10. WHO recorded a new record for coronavirus cases worldwide on Friday

The World Health Organization (WHO) has registered a new record of coronavirus cases worldwide on Friday, exceeding 290,000 positives in the last 24 hours . Specifically, the agency has reported that 292,527 new infections have been added globally, bringing the number of positives worldwide to 17,106,007.

Likewise, during the last day, the WHO has counted 6,812 more deaths , so that a total of 668,910 people have died worldwide due to the pandemic.

At the forefront is the American continent with more than 9.1 million cases, 170,000 new positives today, and 351,121 deaths. Behind him is Europe, which has totaled 3,333,300 cases and more than 210,000 deaths.

7.45. China reduces its number of daily coronavirus infections

The Chinese Ministry of Health has lowered its balance of new coronavirus cases on Saturday and has confirmed only 45 new positives, compared to 127 the previous day , although most are locally transmitted and have been detected in the Xinjiang region.

According to Chinese health authorities, Xinjiang, home to the Uighur Muslim minority, has registered 31 new Covid-19 infections, after local authorities decided to close its capital Urumqi two weeks ago, following a spike in infections.

The rest of the local transmission positives, eight, have been detected in Liaoning. For its part, in the last 24 hours, China has verified six imported cases, four of them in Shanghai and two in Guangdong. As of Friday, the Chinese Ministry of Health has confirmed 2,069 imported cases, while the global estimate for the Asian country now stands at 84,337 infected people.

7.20. State of emergency in the Japanese region of Okinawa due to an increase in coronavirus cases

The Japanese region of Okinawa has declared a state of emergency after confirming an "explosive spread" of the new coronavirus . The authorities have invited the population to confine themselves for two weeks.

"We are witnessing an explosive spread of infections. We declare a state of emergency" until August 15, the region's governor Denny Tamaki told reporters on Friday, adding that hospitals were overwhelmed by this increase in infections. .

The person in charge asked the inhabitants to avoid non-essential exits . Although such measures are not mandatory in Japan, the majority of the population respects them.

Most of the Covid-19 cases detected on this southern island of the archipelago have occurred in US military bases . On Friday, 71 cases were registered in the Okinawa region, out of a total of 395. Of all of them, 248 have been detected at these facilities.

7.10. Australia exceeds 200 deaths with coronavirus since start of pandemic

Australian authorities announced this Saturday four new deaths with COVID-19, bringing the death toll to this disease to 201 across the nation since the start of the pandemic.

The oceanic country, which successfully managed the first wave of infections, has faced an increase in cases since the beginning of July, concentrated mostly in the southern state of Victoria, which has imposed a second quarantine in the cities of Melbourne and Mitchell.

7. 00. The daily contagions of coronavirus in Spain have multiplied by eight during July

The month of July ends with another strong increase in the number of infections. The updated report from the Ministry of Health reveals 1,525 new infected people who were tested yesterday. On the other hand, the real data of new positives (which includes the PCR performed in previous days, but whose diagnosis was disclosed in the last 24 hours), is 3,092. Thus, there are already 288,522 Covid-19 infections since the start of the pandemic.

The alarming increase in outbreaks throughout July has caused daily infections to have multiplied by eight throughout the month. All the details, in this information from Alicia Cruz.

2:55 Mexico surpasses the United Kingdom and is already the third country with the most deaths due to COVID-19

Mexico overtook the United Kingdom on Friday by accumulating 4 6,688 deaths from Covid-19 and became the third country with the highest number of deaths from the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, second only to the United States and Brazil.

The Mexican health authorities reported an increase in the last 24 hours of 688 deaths and 8,458 new infections, the largest increase recorded to date in the country, which has already accumulated 424,637 patients since the start of the pandemic. It is the sixth nation with the most cases.

2:40 Argentina registers 102 new deaths and 5,929 more infections by COVID-19

The Argentine authorities registered 102 new deaths from Covid-19 this Friday, which made the total number of deaths in their country rise to 3,543, while the contagions add up to 191,302 after the 5,929 cases detected in the last 24 hours.

The daily afternoon report of the Argentine Ministry of Health indicates that the province of Buenos Aires, to which the municipalities bordering the capital belong, continues to be well above the rest of the jurisdictions in terms of the number of infections and deaths, as it reported 3,911 positives and 65 deaths during the day.

2:24 The US exceeds 153,100 deaths and 4.5 million infections by COVID-19

The United States reached this Friday the figure of 4,550,247 confirmed cases of CovidD-19 and 153,138 deaths , according to the independent count of Johns Hopkins University.

This balance at 20:00 local time (00:00 GMT on Saturday) is 63,175 more infections than on Thursday and 1,344 new deaths.

Despite the fact that New York is no longer the state with the highest number of infections, it continues to be the hardest hit in terms of deaths in the United States with 32,689, more than in France or Spain.

In New York City alone, 23,531 people have died.

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