There are only three days left until the

state of alarm

for the

coronavirus

ends

and, although the evolution of the

coronavirus

continues to decline, there are many questions that are in the air about future

restrictions

, the legal framework that will protect them and, above all, , the ability to act of the autonomous communities that will be limited as the measures must be submitted to the endorsement of the courts.

The data of the coronavirus in Spain

* Source: Ministry of Health

Total figures: 3,551,262 confirmed coronavirus cases with diagnostic test for active infection;

there have been 78,566 deaths with a positive test as of May 5

  • 556,194 in

    Andalusia

    (9,681 dead)

  • 119,698 in

    Aragon

    (3,454 dead)

  • 51,047 in

    Asturias

    (1,946 dead)

  • 59,515 in the

    Balearic Islands

    (824 dead)

  • 53,332 in the

    Canary Islands

    (735 dead)

  • 29,212 in

    Cantabria

    (558 dead)

  • 186,828 in

    Castilla-La Mancha

    (5,880 dead)

  • 224,396 in

    Castilla y León

    (6,776 dead)

  • 589,156 in

    Catalonia

    (14,271 dead)

  • 5,768 in

    Ceuta

    (108 dead)

  • 391,270 in the

    Valencian Community

    (7,322 dead)

  • 74,321 in

    Extremadura

    (1,793 dead)

  • 122,812 in

    Galicia

    (2,378 dead)

  • 688,562 in

    Madrid

    (15,041 dead)

  • 8,772 in

    Melilla

    (92 dead)

  • 111,090 in

    Murcia

    (1,590 dead)

  • 60,487 in

    Navarra

    (1,165 dead)

  • 188,890 in the

    Basque Country

    (4,191 dead)

  • 29,912 in

    La Rioja

    (761 dead)

7.37 India records a record of almost 4,000 deaths from coronavirus and 412,000 new cases in 24 hours

Figures from the Ministry of Health I

n

dia reported 3,980 deaths from

coronavirus

, bringing the national total to 230,168, and 412,262 new cases, bringing infections in

India

since the pandemic began 21.1 million.

Reports Afp.

7.21 US supports suspending patents against Covid-19 and shares of pharmaceutical companies plummet

The

United States

Government

has communicated to the

World Trade Organization (WTO)

that it supports the temporary lifting of the protection of intellectual property for patents for

vaccines

against

Covid-19.

This was expressed yesterday by the US trade representative

Katherine Tai

-a position that would be the equivalent of that of Secretary of State for Foreign Trade in Spain-,

in an ad that has not been to the liking of big American pharmaceuticals.

To date, three companies in that country have produced

vaccines

against

Covid-19

:

Pfizer

(in collaboration with the German

BioNTech

),

Moderna

, and

Johnson & Johnson

.

A fourth US laboratory,

Novavax

, is well advanced on a fourth vaccine.

The stocks of those companies, with the exception of

Pfizer

, plummeted on the stock market as soon as the proposal was announced.

Moderna

fell 10%,

Novavax

, about 9%, and

BioNTech

6%.

In theory, the lifting of intellectual property rights

it would allow developing countries to make their own vaccines.

The idea has taken hold in the

United States

in the past two weeks as the second

coronavirus

outbreak

in

India

claimed tens of thousands of lives in that country, although the actual figures could be up to 10 times higher than the official ones.

[Read Pablo Pardo's analysis on the lifting of patents against the coronavirus in the US]

7.18 Data Support Success of Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccination Campaign Against Coronavirus in Israel

A swift and ambitious vaccination strategy has positioned

Israel

as the world's laboratory.

With more than half of the adult population already immunized with the two doses (58%), the reduction in the circulation of the

coronavirus

and the evolution of deconfinement in the Hebrew state offer valuable lessons for the rest of the countries.

This Thursday,

The Lancet

magazine

publishes the first observational study - with data collected throughout the country - on the real efficacy of vaccination.

Their results confirm the high rates of effectiveness of the

vaccine

from

Pfizer-BionTech

: above 95% thus preventing new infections, hospitalizations and deaths.

The results also show that the effectiveness of complete vaccination (14 days after the second dose) was similar in blocking symptomatic (97%) and asymptomatic (91.5%) infections.

The authors also emphasize that the figures are very similar in all age groups (vaccinated from 16 years).

"These data are enormously relevant because, although some challenges still have to be overcome, they offer real hope that vaccination will finally allow us to bring the pandemic under control," says

Sharon Alroy-Preis

, a member of

Israel's

Ministry of Health

and lead author of the article. .

[Read Amado Herrero's full information on the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus in Israel]

7.15 Workers at ERTE fell to 638,283 in April, 36,621 less than in March


The number of workers in temporary employment regulation files (

ERTE

) stood at 638,283 people as of April 29, which is 36,621 fewer workers than in March in the revised series and 105,345 fewer depending on the notification date, according to informed this Wednesday the

Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations

, which has indicated that, due to technical problems, it has not been possible to incorporate the data from April 30, although they will be updated as soon as possible.



The Department headed by

José Luis Escrivá

has explained that the

ERTE

application dates

and that of its effects may be different because there is a "certain disparity" between the date of notification and the date on which it takes effect. Thus, it may happen that a company communicates to

Social Security

an

ERTE

for its workforce in the month of January, even if it takes effect on an earlier date, for example in December.



In any case, the Ministry has highlighted that the numbers of workers in

ERTE

continued to decline for the second consecutive month since the peak of the third wave of the

coronavirus

pandemic

, when this tool covered almost 980,000 workers. Report Europa Press


07.12 The health collapse due to the coronavirus threatens childhood in India: thousands of children are exposed to violence and isolation

In a fight against time to save lives in the face of the severe health collapse caused by the

coronavirus

pandemic

,

India

now faces the vulnerable situation of thousands of children who are exposed to violence, neglect and isolation.

With devastating numbers of infections and deaths, many minors see their childhood in danger as their social guarantees fade.

In an interview with Europa Press, the spokesperson

for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

in

India

,

Joana Pérez Martorell

, denounces a sharp increase in the number of calls by minors to established telephone lines to request help .

"Children are being affected by violence and tension in families. We see more vulnerable children and even orphans because their basic care, such as routine vaccinations or basic health access has been affected," he laments before underlining the importance to "maintain basic services for children."

For Pérez, one of the main problems is the lack of information, also in relation to maternity, breastfeeding, vaccination and the

coronavirus

. "There is little information and we must talk about the basic practices of the pandemic and promote the vaccine. (...) We continue to bet on breastfeeding," he specified.



With the help of the

World Health Organization (WHO)

, he says, UNICEF is creating new "lines of work" that include seriously affected children in a country that registers more than 300,000 cases a day and almost 4,000 deaths.



According to data from the organization, the first wave of the pandemic caused drastic cuts in the availability and use of essential public health services in the south of

Asia

, which cost the lives of some 228,000 children and 11,000 mothers.

07.00.

They discover that the coronavirus can remain in the nose for at least 6 months, which explains the loss of smell

The loss of odor in cases of patients infected by the

coronavirus is

not due "to an edema at the level of the olfactory cleft", as previously believed, but to an infection of sensory neurons that "cause persistent inflammation" of the olfactory nervous system, according to a study released this Wednesday by the

Pasteur Institute

.

The research, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine

,

shows that the

coronavirus

can infect the cells of the olfactory mucosa and remain there for at least six months

,

which would explain its persistence in patients who have already overcome the infection. They found that the

coronavirus

became infected and replicated in olfactory neurons, immune cells, and other types of cells in the olfactory lining, causing inflammation and cell death.

The study found "an infection of sensory neurons" among the patients and increased immune cells in the sensory organ. Furthermore, research shows that classic RT-PCR tests performed with a long nasopharyngeal swab can be negative even though the virus persists deep within the nostrils, in the olfactory mucosa. This discovery shows that a coronavirus diagnosis by nasal brushing can be considered as an adjunct to the nasopharyngeal swab in patients with loss of smell.

The

coronavirus

infection

of the olfactory neurons of the nasal olfactory mucosa "could constitute a gateway to the brain and explain why certain patients develop various clinical, psychological (anxiety disorders, depression) or neurological (cognitive impairment) manifestations. susceptibility to developing a neurodegenerative disease), which should be the subject of further studies, "says the

Pasteur Institute.

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