Experts warn, data warn: Spain is looking into the fifth wave.

After a plateau period in the

coronavirus

figures

, the autonomous communities report worrying increases in infections.

Madrid

reported more than 2,000 cases yesterday, a figure that had not been reached since February.

Controls are intensified to prevent mobility for Easter.

The data of the coronavirus in Spain

    * Source: Ministry of Health

    Total figures: 3,255,324 confirmed coronavirus cases with diagnostic test of active infection;

    There have been 75,010 deaths with a positive test as of March 26

  • 501,013 in

    Andalusia

    (9,147 dead)

  • 110,163 in

    Aragon

    (3,372 dead)

  • 46,670 in

    Asturias

    (1,878 dead)

  • 57,315 in the

    Balearic Islands

    (777 dead)

  • 46,004 in the

    Canary Islands

    (663 dead)

  • 25,813 in

    Cantabria

    (541 dead)

  • 174,891 in

    Castilla-La Mancha

    (5,737 dead)

  • 211,261 in

    Castilla y León

    (6,608 dead)

  • 529,904 in

    Catalonia

    (13,120 dead)

  • 5,023 in

    Ceuta

    (93 dead)

  • 385,049 in the

    Valencian Community

    (7,076 dead)

  • 70,654 in

    Extremadura

    (1,755 dead)

  • 115,836 in

    Galicia

    (2,314 dead)

  • 618,160 in

    Madrid

    (14,496 dead)

  • 7,726 in

    Melilla

    (78 dead)

  • 108,198 in

    Murcia

    (1,553 dead)

  • 53,517 in

    Navarra

    (1,117 dead)

  • 160,437 in the

    Basque Country

    (3,942 dead)

  • 27,690 in

    La Rioja

    (743 dead)

8.27 In a "critical" situation, France intensifies controls to prevent the spread of the coronavirus

Faced with a "critical" epidemic situation, French authorities on Saturday stepped up controls to enforce the travel ban, while increasing demand for much stricter restrictions and an expansion of the vaccination campaign.

Since midnight on Friday, three departments (

Rhone

,

Aube

and

Nièvre

) have been subject to restrictive measures already in force in another 16, including

Paris

and its region: travel of more than 10 km without justification is prohibited, it is prohibited to leave the territory without a compelling reason, stores closed and classes in the middle of high school.

Reports Afp.

3.00 Colombia adds 8,254 cases of Covid-19 the day it has applied the most vaccines

Colombia added 8,254 of covid-19 this Saturday, the highest figure in recent weeks, with which it reached 2,375,591 infections just on the day that it has applied the most vaccines, 119,924, and with which it reaches 1,596,288 people immunized.

Of the total number of vaccines applied, 148,108 correspond to second doses, and the regions that top the list of applications are Bogotá (322,193), Antioquia (199,456), Valle del Cauca (148,908), Atlántico (81,949), Cundinamarca (113,315), Bolívar (73,787), Santander (72,163) and Tolima (50,403).

The country also registered 145 deaths, 123 corresponding to previous days, which brings to 62,790 the fatalities left by the pandemic, while there are still 43,330 active cases, equivalent to 1.82%, and 2,261,373 patients appear as recovered, that is, 95.19%.

1.30 The United States adds another 761 deaths from covid-19 and touches 549,000

The United States reached 30,215,544 confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and 548,813 deaths from the covid-19 disease this Saturday, according to the independent count from

Johns Hopkins University.

This balance at 20.00 local time (00.00 GMT on Sunday) is 761 more deaths than on Friday and 64,266 new infections.

California is now the worst-hit state by the pandemic with 58,800 deaths, followed by New York (49,928), Texas (48,039), Florida (33,142), Pennsylvania (24,960), New Jersey (24,382) and Illinois (23,498).

Other states with a large death toll are Georgia (18,926), Ohio (18,525), Massachusetts (17,086), Michigan (17,047), or Arizona (16,912).

00.40 The Chilean Congress willing to postpone the April elections due to covid-19

The Chilean Congress showed this Saturday its willingness to process the postponement of the elections scheduled for April 10 and 11, after learning that experts recommended to the Government to postpone them due to the serious advance of the pandemic, with more than 16 million people confined in the country.

The president of the Senate and second authority of the State, the militant Christian Democrat Yasna Provoste, declared that she was "at the disposal of the experts' recommendations" and called on the Executive to "act quickly to implement" the measures.

Similarly, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Diego Paulsen, pointed out that the chamber is willing to legislate "initiatives that allow citizens to vote safely."

00.02 Mañueco asks the Government for more doses to vaccinate Castilla y León in three months

The president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, has assured this Saturday that the regional administration has sufficient capacity to be able to vaccinate the entire population within a period of three months, for which he has demanded that the Government of Spain distribute more doses.

Fernández Mañueco has participated in the closing of the XV Provincial Congress of the PP in Valladolid, where he has detailed that yesterday about 22,000 people were vaccinated in Castilla y León, which represents a figure close to 1 percent of the population.

22.30 Brazil registers another 3,438 deaths from coronavirus and exceeds 310,000

Brazil registered 3,438 new deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths caused by the pandemic to 310,550, according to data released this Saturday by the Ministry of Health.

In the same period, 85,948 infections were detected, which brings the accumulated in just over a year of pandemic to 12,490,362 cases, says the official bulletin.

These data confirm that Brazil, the second country most affected by the health crisis after the United States, faces a new and virulent wave that, according to some specialists, may accelerate even more in the coming weeks, due to circulation throughout the territory. national of new much more aggressive variants.

Information from the Ministry of Health indicates that 1,300,185 patients are under observation, a growing number that reflects the collapse in which the hospitals of almost all the largest cities in the country have plunged.

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