• Measures Restrictions against the coronavirus: the new measures of each community

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Spain

has added another 42,885 cases of

coronavirus

and 400 new deaths from

Covid-19

this Friday

.

The cumulative incidence remains uncontrolled: 828 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days.

The autonomous communities tighten their restrictions in the face of the unstoppable advance of the virus.

From Monday,

Madrid

advances the curfew at 10 pm and at 9 pm the closure of the hotel industry and other non-essential establishments.

Meetings are also limited to a maximum of four people.

The data of the coronavirus in Spain

    * Source: Ministry of Health

    Total figures: 2,499,560 confirmed coronavirus cases with a diagnostic test for active infection;

    There have been 55,441 deaths with a positive test as of January 22

  • 348,842 in

    Andalusia

    (5,770 dead)

  • 91,963 in

    Aragon

    (2,824 dead)

  • 32,402 in

    Asturias

    (1,445 dead)

  • 47,984 in the

    Balearic Islands

    (544 dead)

  • 32,971 in the

    Canary Islands

    (494 dead)

  • 21,127 in

    Cantabria

    (436 dead)

  • 134,196 in

    Castilla-La Mancha

    (4,288 dead)

  • 167,444 in

    Castilla y León

    (5,440 dead)

  • 461,871 in

    Catalonia

    (9,236 dead)

  • 3,658 in

    Ceuta

    (67 dead)

  • 245,280 in the

    Valencian Community

    (4,016 dead)

  • 58,917 in

    Extremadura

    (1,291 dead)

  • 82,542 in

    Galicia

    (1,580 dead)

  • 483,391 in

    Madrid

    (12,266 dead)

  • 5,496 in

    Melilla

    (49 dead)

  • 86,468 in

    Murcia

    (883 dead)

  • 46,481 in

    Navarra

    (995 dead)

  • 125,361 in the

    Basque Country

    (3,199 dead)

  • 23,166 in

    La Rioja

    (618 dead)

8.42 Necessary Healthcare calls for a concentration this Sunday at the Isabel Zendal Hospital

The

Sanitarios Necessary Madrid

platform

has convened a rally next Sunday, at 11.30 am, at the

Nurse Isabel Zendal Emergency Hospital

to "demand a brake on the dismantling of the staff and resources of the hospitals in the Madrid public network."

According to the announcement of the platform, "this situation, which had already been produced by the policy carried out in previous legislatures, also by the

PP

, is worsening due to the forced transfer that

Public Health

workers are suffering

to this hospital in Valdebebas and for the transfer of economic resources to provide its infrastructure. "

In his opinion, "the catastrophic management being carried out by the

Community of Madrid

is a plunder of public coffers and an outrage on the basic rights of the population", since "its economy prevails over the health of citizens."

Report Europa Press.

8.17 Loss of smell is the best sign to detect COVID-19, according to a study

Two international studies confirm that in the majority of patients with respiratory infections that lose their sense of smell it is due to the

coronavirus

.

The disease also often causes loss of taste and other senses in the mouth.

The study, published in the scientific journal

Chemical Senses

, shows that the mean loss of the sense of smell was 79.7 on a scale of 0 to 100, indicating a large to complete sensory loss.

Furthermore, studies show that loss of smell is most likely the best predictor of

coronavirus

among patients with symptoms of respiratory diseases.

In addition to the loss of the sense of smell, the sense of taste was also significantly reduced, up to 69 on a scale of 0 to 100, as did the remaining sense of sensitivity in the mouth, this time to 37.3 in a scale from 0 to 100. Europa Press reports.

8.05 The president of Murcia appoints a family doctor as Minister of Health

The family doctor

Juan José Pedreño Planes

has been appointed by the President of the

Government of Murcia

,

Fernando López Miras

, new Minister of Health in replacement of

Manuel Villegas

, who resigned after learning that he had been vaccinated against the coronavirus along with management positions and hundreds of officials from your department.

The decree of appointment appears published this Saturday in the

Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia (BORM)

, along with the dismissal of Villegas.

Pedreño Planes, who currently works in a primary care center in Murcia, was director of health area III, corresponding to the

Guadalentín Valley

region

, and during his tenure he was responsible for the start of the expansion and remodeling of

the Rafael Méndez

de

Lorca

hospital

.

The Government of

Fernando López Miras

has made this appointment public through its publication, after midnight, in the Official Gazette of the Region.

Efe reports.

7.55 Zimbabwe's third minister dies from coronavirus in a week

Zimbabwe's

Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Development

,

Joel Matiza

, died of the coronavirus this Friday, becoming the third African government minister to lose his life due to the disease in the last week.

This has been confirmed by the authorities through a statement collected by the local newspaper

The Herald

, in which they have highlighted Matiza's work at the head of the Transportation portfolio, especially "the promotion of road rehabilitation using local resources" and "trusting local businesses".

However, he is the fourth Zimbabwean minister to die since the start of the health crisis.

The other two ministers who died this week are Foreign Affairs Minister

Sibusiso Moyo

and Manicaland Minister of State for Provincial Affairs

Ellen Gwaradzimba

.

Report Europa Press.

7.50 Serious allergic reactions to Moderna's vaccine are "rare," according to US authorities.

Cases of severe allergic reaction to Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine are "rare," and were limited to just ten of the more than 4 million who received the first doses in the United States, health authorities declared Friday.

None of these ten cases resulted in the death of the inoculated person.

"According to these preliminary checks, anaphylactic shocks (severe allergic reaction, ndlr) after the injection of Moderna's vaccine against covid-19 are a rare event," the Centers for Prevention and Control said in a note. Diseases (CDC).

The main federal public health agency in the United States studied, during the period between December 21, 2020 and January 10, 108 cases reported as allergic reactions over 4,041,396 first injected doses.

7.47 Cloth masks remain effective against coronavirus, according to WHO

Cloth masks remain effective, even against new variants of the coronavirus, because the mode of transmission is the same, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday, which does not plan to change its recommendations.

"All people under 60 years of age who do not have particular health problems can use non-surgical cloth masks," said Maria Van Kerkhove, head of pandemic management at WHO.

"In areas where the virus circulates, you have to wear the mask when people are crowded together and it is impossible for them to be at least one meter apart from each other, and also in rooms with little or bad ventilation" He added at a press conference.

Germany and Austria have just imposed medical masks (surgical or FFP2) in shops and transport.

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