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Coronavirus: Spain exceeds two million infections and the incidence rises to 321
The coronavirus data in Spain does not exactly invite hope.
Health has reported 25,456 new cases of Covid on Friday and 199 deaths since Thursday.
The cumulative incidence (number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants) continues to skyrocket and has risen from 321 on Thursday to 350 yesterday.
There are 10 regions (compared to eight the day before) with a cumulative incidence of more than 300 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and five of them (four on Thursday) exceed the rate of 400 infections.
The Balearic Islands, Extremadura and Madrid are above 500.
The autonomous communities announce new restrictions on mobility and non-essential economic activity due to the escalation of cases after the Christmas period.
Specifically this Friday the Community of Madrid, Andalusia, Extremadura, the Balearic Islands and Galicia have joined the steps of other autonomies such as Catalonia or Castilla y León.
The data of the coronavirus in Spain
276,669 in
Andalusia
(5,251 dead)
82,696 in
Aragon
(2,683 dead)
28,196 in
Asturias
(1,376 dead)
39,586 in the
Balearic Islands
(482 dead)
28,827 in the
Canary Islands
(447 dead)
18,905 in
Cantabria
(402 dead)
107,656 in
Castilla-La Mancha
(4,117 dead)
138,681 in
Castilla y León
(5,143 dead)
386,595 in
Catalonia
(8,828 dead)
3,225 in
Ceuta
(62 dead)
164,156 in the
Valencian Community
(3,163 dead)
43,028 in
Extremadura
(1,111 dead)
65,479 in
Galicia
(1,420 dead)
421,295 in
Madrid
(11,971 dead)
4,728 in
Melilla
(44 dead)
63,380 in
Murcia
(769 dead)
43,542 in
Navarra
(973 dead)
114,390 in the
Basque Country
(3,038 dead)
19,326 in
La Rioja
(594 dead)
* Source: Ministry of Health
Total figures: 2,050,360 confirmed coronavirus cases with a diagnostic test for active infection;
51,874 deaths with a positive test as of January 8
9.15.
Germany registers 1,083 deaths from Covid, close to Friday's record
Germany registered 24,694 new infections and 1,083 deaths in the last 24 hours, one of the highest figures for the pandemic, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the leading epidemiological center, reported this Saturday.
The most populated country in the EU thus remains close to the maximum values, somewhat below the 33,777 new cases reported on December 18 and the record of deaths set this Friday, with 1,188 fatalities.
In this way, Germany accumulates 1,891,581 infections, of which 39,878 have ended in death.
Around 1,511,800 people have overcome the disease.
The cumulative incidence in the last seven days stood for the country as a whole at 153.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, far from the 197.6 reached on December 22.
8.30.
The US reached a new record of infections and Europe accelerates with vaccines
The United States registered a new mark of
Covid-19
infections on
Friday
with
more than 290,000 in 24 hours
, while Europe stepped on the accelerator to its vaccination programs by doubling its orders to the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer-BioNTech.
The Johns Hopkins University, a reference center on the matter, reported that the record of infections in one day in the United States was added to the mark of daily deaths registered on Thursday with 3,998 deaths.
The number of hospitalized patients is also unprecedented with more than 131,000 people across the country.
Given the criticism raised by the slowness of vaccination campaigns on the continent, the European Union is preparing the next authorization for a third vaccine, that of AstraZeneca / Oxford, after those of Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA), under great pressure, said on Friday that it will make a decision on the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine at the end of January.
At the same time, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced an agreement with Pfizer / BioNTech to double its pre-purchase contract, from 300 million to 600 million doses.
8.20 More than 88.8 million cases of Covid in the world
The number of
Covid-19 cases
in the world now exceeds 88.86 million, according to the count of John Hopkins University, which brings
the number of deaths
to more than
1.9
.
The total number of infected is 88,860,500, with the US leading with 21,862,773, followed by India with 10,413,417, Brazil with 8,013,708, Russia with 3,321,163 and the United Kingdom with 2,966,244.
Regarding Latin America, the eleventh place on the list is occupied by Colombia, with 1,755,568 cases, the twelfth Argentina with 1,703,352 and the thirteenth Mexico with 1,507,931.
Spain appears in ninth place with 2,050,360 infected.
8.15.
China tightens restrictions as Chinese New Year approaches
China on Saturday tightened restrictions in two cities south of Beijing, which were already in quarantine, in hopes of curbing
the most serious Covid-19 outbreak in six months in the country
, where the new
coronavirus
appeared
a year ago. year.
Given the approach of the Chinese New Year, which is celebrated on February 12 and moves millions of people, the city of Shijiazhuang suspended the subway until further notice to "contribute to the prevention and control of the epidemic," the authorities reported. .
And the people of Xingtai are prohibited from leaving home for a week.
A total of 18 million inhabitants of the Hebei province, in the municipalities of Shijiazhuang and Xingtai, with large rural areas, were already prohibited from leaving the area except out of dire necessity.
Hebei has reported more than 300 infections in the last week, including nearly 200 asymptomatic.
8.00.
Prison in Singapore for a woman who contracted Covid for hiding a contact
Oh Bee Hiok, 65, concealed from the Health Ministry that he had met multiple times with his friend Lim Kiang Hong, 71, before he was diagnosed with the disease on February 26, 2020, for fear that they thought she might have an extramarital affair with him, the city-state newspaper The Straits Times reported.
For hiding this information, a Singaporean court sentenced the woman to prison, after the Ministry of Health discovered, through their parking tickets and other evidence, that she had been in contact with her friend several days a week, taking advantage of her husband's absence to go play badminton.
The friend of the accused also contracted Covid-19 a month later, although not because of having been in contact with the woman, but that did not prevent the judge from imposing a prison sentence, despite having been the argument of the defense so that the sentence was limited to a fine.
"While I can understand Ms. Oh's motives and her desire to keep her meetings with Mr. Lim a secret, I agree that these are selfish and self-serving reasons, to the detriment of the pressing need for the public interest to control the pandemic. "reasoned the judge.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the city-state, with 5.6 million inhabitants, has registered 29 deaths and 58,813 confirmed cases.
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