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The Ministry of Health has updated the 'Strategy for the early detection, surveillance and control of

' and among the new changes it is collected that the contacts of people who have tested positive for

who carry out activities considered essential (health personnel, social health, personnel of the State security forces and bodies or personnel of educational centers) will not have to quarantine if they have a negative PCR.

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The data of the coronavirus in Spain

* Source: Ministry of Health

Total figures: 554,143 cases of coronavirus diagnosed by PCR;

29,699 dead with positive test on September 10

• 156,026 in

  Madrid

  (8,817 dead)

• 121,054 in

  Catalonia

  (5,773 dead)

• 38,884 in

  Andalusia

  (1,566 dead)

• 35,413 in

  the Basque Country

  (1,587 dead)

• 33,514 in

  Castilla y León

  (3,052 dead)

• 29,288 in

  Aragon

  (1,212 dead)

• 29,907 in the

  Valencian Community

  (1,501 dead)

• 28,433 in

  Castilla-La Mancha

  (3,052 dead)

• 16,937 in

  Galicia

  (670 dead)

• 11,582 in

  Navarra

  (540 dead)

• 10,412 in the

  Balearic Islands

  (253 dead)

• 9,861 in the

  Canary Islands

  (189 dead)

• 10,026 in

  Murcia

  (167 dead)

• 6,472 in

  La Rioja

  (381 dead)

• 6,421 in

  Extremadura

  (538 dead)

• 5,221 in

  Cantabria

  (227 dead)

• 3,781 in

  Asturias

  (338 dead)

• 549 in

  Melilla

  (3 dead)

• 362 in

  Ceuta

  (7 dead)

08.58.

Illa does not rule out that in Madrid more special measures are taken

The Minister of Health,

, has positively valued the measures taken by the Government of the Community of Madrid against the

in this second wave, but does not rule out that more restrictive measures are taken if the situation does not improve.

"We are in an unstable scenario, in Spain and in the world. In Spain we had the first outbreaks in Catalonia and Aragon, linked to temporary workers. And there a work has been done that has allowed it to be controlled. Subsequently it has been displaced to other autonomous communities, as is the case of Madrid. Madrid has some special characteristics, but I believe that Madrid is doing well. The important thing now is that decisions are taken very close to the ground. If more specific measures must be taken, that is what must be done " , has stated.

08.49.

Illa insists that there will be a vaccine against the coronavirus in December

"Spain has agreed with the European partners on a common strategy on the

vaccine

. It means opting to have a minimum of 7 vaccines because it is not known which ones will be effective. The

mishap

means that the process works, but we have six other vaccines and if all goes well, we will have a vaccine by the end of the year, "said the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa in an interview in La 1." In Europe we have decided not to go for a vaccine, but to opt for 7 vaccines to see which of them it is more effective. It is the correct strategy, "he added.

Even so, he has warned that "although we will begin to have doses at the end of this year and the beginning of the next one, the process of vaccinating the population will take a while in which we will have to continue adopting the measures for a few months yet."

Asked about the collapse of the Primary Care Centers due to the pandemic, the minister has denied said collapse: "What there is is a very significant increase in PCR diagnostic tests. There is no collapse in primary care, what there is it's a very relevant effort. "

08.39.

British GDP rises 6.6% in July

The UK's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose 6.6% in July compared to the previous month, but the country's economy is 11.7% below the level it was in February, before the lockdown by the

, reported the National Office of Statistics (ONS).

These data have been released after the United Kingdom officially entered recession last month with two consecutive quarters of economic contraction.

According to the information released this Friday by the ONS, the construction sector registered an increase of 17.6%, while the services sector -considered the economic lung of the United Kingdom- rose 6.1%, while the industrial sector rose 5.2%.

08.26.

About 22% of coronavirus patients have encephalopathies

21.9% of patients with

infection

have encephalopathies and a third of them have mild or moderate confusional syndrome, according to the National

Registry

of the Spanish Neurology Society (SEN) that will be presented at the I National Congress

that will be held virtually from September 13 to 19.

As reported by the SEN, the registry revealed that encephalopathies, encephalitis and cerebrovascular problems are some of the most common neurological pathologies among patients with active

infection

.

Of the 232 cases with neurological symptoms collected in this Registry, 21.9% were encephalopathy / encephalitis.

35.3% of these cases came from Madrid, followed by Catalonia (13.7%) and the Basque Country (9.8%), three of the communities that have had the most cases.

58.8% of the patients were men, with a mean age of 69.1 years.

08.12.

Israel decrees confinement for 14 days after confirming 4,000 new cases of coronavirus

The group that coordinates the fight against the

in Israel has agreed during the night of this Thursday a confinement of the whole country, which will extend 14 days, after the health authorities have confirmed more than 4,000 new cases of

in the last 24 hours.

The closure will begin next Friday - the day that Rosh Hashanah or Jewish New Year begins - and will end on October 1.

The population will only be able to move within a radius of 500 meters from their home and all businesses will be closed, including restaurants.

08.11.

Tomás Guitarte, deputy of Teruel Existe, positive for coronavirus

Tomás Guitarte, the deputy of the Teruel Existe electoral group, has not attended the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies this week and has been forced to cast his vote electronically because he was awaiting the result of a PCR test, which has finally confirmed its positive for

.

Guitarte could no longer participate in the Board of Spokespersons on Tuesday because he was isolated in a preventive manner, having been in contact with a positive for coronavirus, as reported by the constituency of voters in a statement.

07.18.

A second positive in the same school in Rafelbunyol (Valencia) raises the concern of parents

The management of the Germanells Public School of Rafelbunyol, in the province of Valencia, reported this Thursday late in the afternoon a second case of positive for

among its students, after which it already forced to confine a score of students from a classroom Primary, as EL MUNDO has learned.

This second case has occurred in a nursery classroom and, according to the center, it would be a 5-year-old student from the same family unit as the previous one, which was confirmed on Monday.

Therefore, the search would lead directly to the same family, who decided to take the two little ones on the first day of school after a weekend in which they would have been in direct contact with other infected.

06.41.

The number of coronavirus infections in Germany continues to rise

The number of confirmed

cases

in Germany has risen by 1,484 to 256,850, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases show.

The death toll also increased by one to 9,342.

06.21.

WHO Warns AstraZeneca Setback Shows Vaccine Path Won't Be Easy

The interruption of the trials for the

vaccine

by the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is a sign that the path to a solution to the pandemic "will not be direct and fast," stressed the chief scientist of the World Organization of Health (WHO).

The Geneva-based agency's chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan, of India, declared at a press conference that halting trials at AstraZeneca when adverse side effects were found in a patient "is a normal safety procedure" and "a reminder of that clinical research has ups and downs. "

The expert pointed out that in this case the side effects have been quite serious, so the usual measure of subjecting the tests to the scrutiny of the AstraZeneca board, which conducted these tests with the support of the British University of Oxford, has been followed.

06.17.

People working in essential activities will not have to quarantine if they have a negative PCR

Contacts of people who have tested positive for

who carry out activities considered essential (health personnel, social health personnel, personnel of the State security forces and bodies or personnel of educational centers) will not have to quarantine if they have a negative PCR.

This is clear in the update of the

, published by the Ministry of Health and which indicates that these people should not quarantine as long as they have maintained the recommended measures in each case to prevent transmission, and after an assessment by the occupational risk prevention service if appropriate, they will be able to continue with their work activity after obtaining a negative PCR result, recommending close self-monitoring of the appearance of symptoms, an observance maximum of the infection prevention measures and establishing an active follow-up.

06.11.

China chains 26 days without local infections of coronavirus and registers 15 "imported" cases

The National Health Commission of China has reported that the Asian country registered 15 new positives of the

diagnosed to travelers from abroad, an absence of local infections that extends the streak without infections of this type to 26 consecutive days.

The 15 "imported" cases were detected in Shanghai (east, 8), and in the provinces of Guangzhou (southeast, 4), Liaoning (northeast, 1), Sichuan (center, 1) and Shaanxi (center, 1).

As for the asymptomatic infected, China added to that statistic 22 new positives in this latest report, all of them "imported" as well, which places the total number of people under observation in these circumstances at 311.

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