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Since this Wednesday, all the communities have registered incidences of coronavirus at high risk -between 150 and 250 cases- or extreme risk -above 250 cases-, while the national average stands at 644.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days, 22 points more than the previous day.

The Ministry of Health has notified 30,587 new cases this Thursday, of which 17,611 have been diagnosed in the last 24 hours, in which 18 deaths have been reported.

The data of the coronavirus in Spain

Total figures

: 4,219,723 confirmed coronavirus cases with a diagnostic test for active infection;

There have been 81,166 deaths with a positive test as of July 21.

  • 669,852 in Andalusia (10,132 deaths)

  • 139,985 in Aragon (3,563 dead)

  • 62,901 in Asturias (1,984 dead)

  • 72,924 in the Balearic Islands (848 dead)

  • 71,558 in the Canary Islands (808 dead)

  • 36,878 in Cantabria (572 dead)

  • 203,648 in Castilla-La Mancha (6,020 dead)

  • 265,345 in Castilla y León (6,946 dead)

  • 785,624 in Catalonia (14,769 dead)

  • 6,151 in Ceuta (117 dead)

  • 439,991 in the Valencian Community (7,433 dead)

  • 83,906 in Extremadura (1,813 dead)

  • 146,053 in Galicia (2,430 dead)

  • 778,350 in Madrid (15,505 dead)

  • 9,503 in Melilla (97 dead)

  • 120,889 in Murcia (1,609 dead)

  • 72,098 in Navarra (4,558 dead)

  • 220,000 in the Basque Country (4,558 dead)

  • 34,067 in La Rioja (778 dead)

7.05 The complete guideline from Pfizer and AstraZenca, as effective against the Delta variant as against the original

Two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer or AstraZeneca are almost as effective against the highly transmissible Delta coronavirus variant as against the previously dominant Alpha variant, according to a study published Wednesday in the

New England Journal of Medicine.

The researchers say that the vaccines are highly effective against the Delta variant, now the dominant one worldwide, although the study reiterated that one injection of the vaccines is not enough for high protection.

The study confirms the main findings given by

Public Health England

in May on the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca, based on real-world data.

Wednesday's study claims that two doses of the Pfizer injection were 88% effective in preventing symptomatic disease from the Delta variant, compared to 93.7% against the Alpha variant, generally the same as reported. previously.


Two injections of the AstraZeneca vaccine were 67% effective against the Delta variant, versus 60% originally reported, and 74.5% effective against the Alpha variant, compared to an original estimate of 66% effectiveness.




"Only modest differences in vaccine effectiveness were seen with the Delta variant compared to the Alpha variant after receiving two doses of vaccine," the Public Health England researchers wrote in the study.

7.05 More than 80 Catalan residences present active cases of covid

A total of 81 homes for the elderly, disabled and mental health register active cases of coronavirus among residents, the Ministry of Social Rights of the Generalitat reported this Wednesday in a statement, of which 61 are geriatric, 17 disabled and three of mental health.

Among the residents there are 356 confirmed cases, 0.6% of the total, of which 256 live in geriatric residences, 65 in centers for the disabled and three in mental health centers, among other cases.

With regard to professionals, in the last 14 days, 449 coronavirus positives have been detected, 1% of the workforce.

The vast majority of people affected by Covid-19 are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms, but 28 residents and eight workers are admitted to hospitals: in the last week, there have been 21 hospitalizations and no deaths.

96% of the people who live in residential centers are vaccinated in the first dose and 94% have the complete regimen, while among the workers 89% have received the first dose and 88% the complete regimen.

07.00 Madrid will review fines of the state of alarm in process, but not firm them

The Madrid City Council will review the fines imposed under the protection of the first state of alarm whose processing is in progress, but in principle it will not do the same with respect to the sanctions that have acquired firmness since "the same is indicated" by the Constitutional Court ruling that canceled the confinement of the first alarm state.

It has been explained by the municipal spokesperson and delegate of Security and Emergencies, Inmaculada Sanz, in the plenary session this Wednesday, where an urgent motion from Vox has been approved with the support of the PP and Cs that asked, among other aspects, "to suspend the initiation of disciplinary proceedings "for violating that first state of alarm (from March 14 to June 21, 2020).

The Consistory, Sanz has indicated, had already made this decision, and now wants to "calmly study that sentence" to examine exactly what it implies.

However, after a "first approach" to the ruling, the City Council understands that it has the review of the sanctioning procedures "that are in progress" and in which, as a consequence of the nullity of the applied rule, "there is a reduction of the penalty or sanction or an exclusion, exemption or limitation of liability ".

07.00 The delta variant accounts for more than 80% of infections in Madrid

The delta variant already has a "clearly majority" presence in the Community of Madrid, where it reaches 88.1 percent of the new infections detected, as assured this Wednesday by the Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero.

According to the weekly epidemiological report published by Escudero's portfolio, the age group most affected by these variants is 15 to 44 years, with 75.4% of cases.

In fact, infections continue to increase as 5,066 cases were reported this Wednesday, of which 4,094 correspond to the last 24 hours.

There are five deaths in hospitals, where hospital pressure continues to rise.

These data also exceed the previous Wednesday, July 14, when the positives were 3,818 and hospitalized patients were well below, with 395 in the ward and 109 in the ICU, and no deaths a week ago.

The cumulative incidence indicator also shows an upward trend, standing today at 561.09 cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants, when a week ago it was 295.33 cases.

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