Coronavirus in Spain today, live news | The Council of Ministers today approves the state of alarm requested by nine communities and Melilla

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has convened a council of ministers for this Sunday in which

will be

for the containment of the

in this second wave.

The worsening of the situation has meant that nine autonomous communities and the autonomous city of Melilla have demanded that the central government approve this exceptional figure in order to give a homogeneous response to the escalation and to provide legal cover for the night confinement.

The Communities that have requested it have been

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

and the city of

, none governed by the PP.

In this summary we tell the last minute about Covid-19 in all of Spain.

We also have other specific ones for Andalusia, Catalonia and the Canary Islands.

The data of the coronavirus in Spain

* Source: Ministry of Health

Total figures: 1,046,132 confirmed coronavirus cases with a diagnostic test for active infection;

34,752 deaths with positive test as of October 23

• 292,754 in

  Madrid

  (10,211 dead)

• 192,035 in

  Catalonia

  (5,960 dead)

• 106,298 in

  Andalusia

  (2,270 dead)

• 69,989 in

  Castilla y León

  (3,446 dead)

• 57,628 in

  the Basque Country

  (2,032 dead)

• 57,347 in

  Castilla-La Mancha

  (3,338 dead)

• 53,831 in the

  Valencian Community

  (1,719 dead)

• 48,283 in

  Aragon

  (1,566 dead)

• 29,254 in

  Murcia

  (283 dead)

• 28,711 in

  Galicia

  (859 dead)

• 28,009 in

  Navarra

  (668 dead)

• 16,876 in the

  Balearic Islands

  (352 dead)

• 16,547 in the

  Canary Islands

  (267 dead)

• 16,077 in

  Extremadura

  (676 dead)

• 11,300 in

  La Rioja

  (442 dead)

• 9,432 in

  Asturias

  (391 dead)

• 8,500 in

  Cantabria

  (248 dead)

• 2,094 in

  Melilla

  (11 dead)

• 1,167 in

  Ceuta

  (13 dead)

8.40.

Council of ministers for the new decree of state of alarm

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has convened an extraordinary Council of Ministers for this Sunday at 10:00 am to study the terms of a new Royal Decree on a state of alarm.

The state of alarm is covered by the requests of nine autonomous communities that, in addition, are also applying their own measures to stop this second wave of the coronavirus.

No community of the PP has so far requested it, so that the Government has the requests of the Basque Country, Asturias, Extremadura, Navarra, Catalonia, La Rioja, Castilla-La Mancha, Cantabria and the Valencian Community, together with the autonomous city de Melilla, in addition to the support of Ciudadanos, which would guarantee an eventual extension in Congress for another 15 days.

Catalonia

, with more than 6,000 new infected;

, with 3,378 positives;

, with 2,015 cases;

the

, which has registered 1,690;

, with 1,212 cases and

, with 687 infections, are some of the autonomous communities that have recorded the

.

Some regions do not give this information on weekends.

8.10 China registers 15 new imported cases of Covid-19 and will test the entire population of Kasgar

China has detected this Sunday 15 new cases of imported coronavirus on its mainland, while the

will

a diagnostic test after having detected an asymptomatic case.

Of the new imported cases, five were detected in Shanghai, three in Liaoining and Guangdong, two in Shanxi province and one in Tianjin city.

According to the local newspaper 'China Daily', the health authorities have detected the positive of

in a routine screening test in the city of Kasgar, in the autonomous province of Xinjiang, so all the city ​​dwellers should take a test.

7.40.

The chief of staff of the vice president of the USA tests positive

The chief of staff of the Vice President of the United States Mike Pence has tested positive for covid-19 this Saturday.

becomes the last to date to include his name on the list of collaborators of the Donald Trump administration who have been infected with coronavirus.

Short is in quarantine.

The same spokesman, Devin O'Malley, has specified that Pence and his wife have tested negative.

.

2.40 (winter time).

Mexico adds 431 deaths and 6,025 new infections of covid-19

The Mexican Ministry of Health reported this Saturday that the country accumulates 88,743 deaths and 886,800 confirmed infections of Covid-19 after adding 431 new deaths and 6,025 cases in the last 24 hours.

At a press conference, the director of Epidemiology of Mexico, José Luis Alomía, declared that since the arrival of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in February, diagnostic tests have been carried out on 2.3 million people.

He also explained that 664,739 people have already recovered from the disease.

The country records a hospital occupancy of 32% of general care beds and 26% of beds with assisted ventilation ventilators.

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said this Saturday that "the light is already seen at the end of the tunnel" of the pandemic, despite the fact that health authorities warned this week of the risk of outbreaks.

2.51.

The US exceeds 8.5 million cases of covid-19 and 224,700 deaths

The United States reached this Saturday the figure of 8,568,625 confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and 224,751 deaths from the Covid-19 disease, according to the independent count from

This balance at 8:00 p.m. local time is 88,973 more infections than on Friday and 906 more deaths.

The barrier of 8.5 million infections was surpassed in the United States a day after the country registered a new daily record of infections, with more than 85,000 new cases recorded on Friday.

The new spike in cases in the United States is particularly affecting the Midwest and the states across the Rocky Mountains.

Although New York is no longer the state with the highest number of infections, it does continue to be the hardest hit in terms of deaths in the United States, with 33,418.

In New York City alone, 23,963 people have died.

New York is followed in number of deaths by Texas (17,774), California (17,319), Florida (16,417) and New Jersey (16,281).

Other states with a large death toll are Massachusetts (9,830), Illinois (9,751), Pennsylvania (8,636), Georgia (7,766) or Michigan (7,484).

1.44.

The president of Mexico sees "light at the end of the tunnel" despite risk of outbreaks

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said this Saturday that "the light is already seen at the end of the tunnel" of the Covid-19 pandemic, despite the fact that health authorities warned this week of the risk of outbreaks.

"We are coming out of both the health crisis and the economic crisis. It is already warned that we are going to leave the tunnel we entered, the light is already visible at the exit of the tunnel," he said during the general assembly of the Mexican Insurance Institute Social (IMSS).

With more than 880,000 confirmed infections and 88,000 deaths, the president assured that "the worst" of the health crisis is over because "the saturation of hospitals was avoided," unlike what happened, he said, in Europe and New York.

In addition, seven months after the arrival of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in Mexico, he affirmed that specialist doctors have gained "experience" and already "better serve the sick.

1.17.

Argentina adds 11,968 new positives and 275 deaths in the last 24 hours

Argentina detected 11,968 new Covid-19 infections this Saturday, so the total number of infections totals 1,081,336, while the fatalities are already 28,613, after there have been 275 deaths in the last 24 hours.

Likewise, the number of intensive care beds occupied by Covid-19 patients reached a new record, and there have already been several this week, when it was confirmed that there are 4,850 people hospitalized.

According to the evening report from the Ministry of Health, the province of Buenos Aires remains the district with the most confirmed cases so far (525,150, of which 3,030 were registered this Saturday), followed by the country's capital, with 143,545 confirmed infections, 464 of them announced this Saturday.

00.58.

Brazil registers 26,979 new cases and 432 deaths from covid in 24 hours

Brazil, one of the countries most affected in the world by the new coronavirus pandemic along with the United States and India, advances to 5.4 million confirmed cases and is close to 157,000 deaths related to Covid-19, as disclosed this Saturday the Ministry of Health.

In its latest daily epidemiological bulletin, the Government officially reported that 26,979 new confirmed cases and 432 deaths were registered in the country in the last 24 hours, figures that confirm a trend, albeit slow, of reduction in deaths and infections.

After the confirmation of the first contagion, on February 26, and the first death, on March 12, both in Sao Paulo, the country now has 5,380,635 confirmed cases and totals 156,903 deaths.

00.39.

Bars and restaurants empty at midnight in Madrid's 'curfew'

As if a few minutes could separate two realities.

What

and groups of people drinking glasses in hand, midnight came with the sound of blinds and the

on their way to their homes.

The Madrid 'curfew' arrived with police patrols through the center of the capital and parsimony in the withdrawal.

"Now what you want is to go have a few drinks, but we have to go home," acknowledged Ana, who was leaving the Café Comercial at 11:55 p.m. with four friends.

"Whoever says at 12 o'clock to get home, says at last that we had to finish dinner," he explains while waiting for a taxi to Hermosilla Street.

And meanwhile, Municipal Police and National Police begin to deploy troops.

"You have to have a lot of left hand, it is very difficult for people to comply when you change the rules every week," says an agent in a clear Plaza Dos de Mayo.

"The problem is the homes, how do we control them if people do not open us?", Says a municipal policeman who points out that on Friday night "calls did not stop coming in from the entire center until 5 in the morning". informs

00.33.

Colombia exceeds one million cases of Covid-19

Colombia this Saturday surpassed the threshold of one million cases of Covid-19 registered in the country since the beginning of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health reported.

According to the entity's report, in the last 24 hours 8,769 new infections were reported, bringing the total to 1,007,711 since the first case was detected on March 6, from Italy.

00.14.

Catalan hospitals maintain their usual activity "in a generalized way"

The director of the Servei Català de la Salut (CatSalut), Adrià Comella, has ensured that the hospitals in Catalonia have not had to deprogram "in a generalized way" the usual healthcare activity due to the increase in the indicators of the coronavirus pandemic.

The director of the CatSalut healthcare area, Xènia Acebes, has specified that some center has indeed postponed "in a timely manner" any surgical intervention due to the infection of health personnel, as she has declared to journalists together with Comella.

Comella explained that they cannot guarantee the continuity of this activity because they are unaware of the possible expansion of the pandemic in the second wave: "What we can guarantee is that we are well above the figures."

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