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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