Coronavirus March, the key month to lift the restrictions against Covid
Spain data adds 30,615 cases and 288 deaths with Covid and the incidence drops 65 points to 919
In a month, coronavirus
infections
in Spain have dropped from more than 145,000 daily cases to just over 30,000 registered this Friday, in a sixth wave that has contributed
53% of the cases of the total pandemic
.
These data lead some experts to venture that in
March
the favorable situation prior to December could be recovered and the
lifting of the Covid-19 restrictions could be considered
.
Precisely, the director of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned against thinking that the coronavirus pandemic is coming to an end.
In
Canada
, health restrictions have raised the
population against the Government and the
Ottawa
Police
have acknowledged that they have used
"a chemical irritant to stop the aggressive behavior"
of the
protesters.
Incidence 470 accumulated by CCAA.
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20.10
Hong Kong becomes another Wuhan in its worst wave of Covid
Hong Kong is Wuhan in January 2020. It's New York in March 2020. It's Lima in May 2020. It's Sao Paulo in April 2021. It's Bangkok in September 2021. It's like
déjà vu
.
Collapsed hospitals, patients prostrated on stretchers in car parks and others isolated in tents.
The images that arrive seem to be from the archive, from those times when the Covid was getting worse.
But they are from Hong Kong in February 2022.
Lucas de la Cal tells it.
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19.50
Ottawa Police use "chemical irritant" to clear anti-vaccine demonstration
The Ottawa
Police
have acknowledged
that he has used
"a chemical irritant to stop the aggressive behavior"
of the
demonstrators in the area of the Parliament
, and the local chain CBC affirmed that
it could be pepper spray
.
The agents managed to disperse a large area of Wellington Street, where Parliament is located, on Saturday and pushed the protesters towards the perpendicular O'Connor Street, which leads to the south of the city, according to CBC.
The police advanced truck by truck, in some cases breaking the windows of the vehicles and pushing the demonstrators, who shouted:
"Shame!"
, according to
The New York Times
.
Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau
on Monday invoked the Emergencies Act, which gives the government extraordinary powers to end the protests, which began on January 29 and had spread across several border crossings with the United States.
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19.15
March, the key month to lift the restrictions against Covid
With this abrupt drop in the covid figures, some experts venture to predict that, in two weeks, at the beginning of March,
we could recover the favorable situation
prior to the month of December
: a cumulative incidence of close to 100 cases.
"This decline is taking place in the same way that it occurs in other countries," explains Jesús Molina Cabrillana, spokesperson for the Spanish Society of Preventive Medicine, Public Health and Hygiene (Sempsph).
This would be good news, since "
maintaining this incidence for a few weeks and lowering it even more at the gates of a new season, could be the opportunity to abandon certain measures
", underlines Molina.
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18.22
The left waves the flag of public health in Andalusia in full landing of the sixth wave
The left has taken to the streets this Saturday to denounce
the shortcomings of public health
with demonstrations in all the provincial capitals led by the UGT and CCOO unions and by various user organizations, but actively supported by all the parties of the left , which come together in a shared strategy, reports
Teresa López Pavón.
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17.45
Infections and hospitalized by Covid drop in Madrid, which registers 12 deaths
The
Community of Madrid has reported
2,514 new infections
this Saturday
, compared to 3,062 yesterday (548 fewer), and
half of the deaths, which are 12
compared to 25 on Friday, while those admitted to the plant fall to 1,114 and those patients in ICU to 194 (five less).
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17.04
Catalonia registers 5,176 covid cases and 48 deaths in the last 24 hours
Catalonia
has registered until this Saturday 2,370,306 accumulated confirmed cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic,
5,176 more
than in the count on Friday, reports the Ministry of Health of the Generalitat through its website.
In the last 24 hours,
48 deaths
have been registered and the total number of deaths is 26,459: 16,722 in hospital or health center, 4,732 in residence, 1,348 at home and 3,657 that are not classifiable due to lack of information.
As for the
patients
currently admitted, there are 1,812 people hospitalized, 109 less than in the last count.
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16.55
Catalonia records 1,475 positive covid in education in the last 24 hours
Catalan schools
have recorded 1,475 new Covid-19 positives this Saturday
compared
to
Friday's count, for a cumulative 441,090 since the start of the school year: 384,534 students, 56,413 teachers and internal staff, and 143 among external staff .
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16.30
The Canary Islands do not register deaths with Covid for the first time since December
The Canary Islands
have provisionally registered
1,209 new cases
of
Covid-19
in the last 24 hours, so the total accumulated cases in the Islands since the start of the pandemic is already 277,612 with 16,860 active, of which 53 are hospitalized. in ICU and
376 remain hospitalized
.
Likewise, in the last few hours
no death has been reported in the Canary Islands linked to the coronavirus
, something that had not happened since last December 12.
Since then, the Islands have registered deaths with COVID-19 daily.
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15.17
The omicron 2 variant of Covid continues to rise: it is more contagious, but also more lethal?
There is no empirical evidence for increased virulence of the
omicron
variant BA.2 , although a recent study in hamsters suggested that it might cause more severe disease.
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15.05
Malaga registers a decrease of 70 hospitalized for covid in a week
The hospital pressure as a result of the
coronavirus
pandemic is relaxing in the province of
Malaga
, which registers a decrease in the
number of hospitalized people of 70 people
in a week, going from 290 hospitalized last Saturday to 220 this day.
This drop has also been noted in the
Intensive Care Units
(ICU), which this week have gone from 28 to 20, eight fewer people, according to data provided by the Ministry of Health and Families of the Andalusian Government.
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14.28
The Balearic Islands notify 524 new infections and one deceased due to Covid
The Epidemiology Service of the Balearic Government has notified the Ministry of Health this Saturday of a total of
524 new cases of Covid-19
in the Community compared to the previous day, as well as one
more death
due to the virus.
According to data published by the Ministry of Health, the total balance of cases in the archipelago stands at 250,657 infections since the pandemic began and 1,210 deaths.
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13.42
Aguirre links that the incidence drops to the end of the masks in the classrooms
The Minister of Health and Families of the Junta de Andalucía, Jesús Aguirre (PP), has reported this Saturday that
the drop in the incidence
in the school age group
is "a very important variable" for it to be withdrawn within the classrooms of the schools
, something that "will be done, but also, it will be done in a cohesive way in all the autonomous communities".
This has been highlighted by the counselor in statements to the press in Córdoba, since he has pointed out that the one who has the capacity to remove it is the Ministry of Health and "they will be the ones who will take the measure with the support, we want, of all the Autonomous Communities", reports Europe Press.
Aguirre explained that last week in the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System this debate was opened to follow the recommendation of the Spanish Society of Pediatrics to remove the mask indoors at the school level, and the Government and the
autonomous communities opted for " be a little cautious"
and "wait for the incidence to go down even more, for the evolution of this sixth wave to begin to bottom out and then take the measure of a little opening up on this issue of children".
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13.14
Djokovic returns in Dubai against the young Italian Musetti, after being expelled from the Australian open
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic will kick off his 2022 season in Dubai early next week against Italian youngster Lorenzo Musetti,
a month after being kicked out of Melbourne
failing to defend his Australian Open title, reports Afp.
It will be
Djokovic's first official match since the Davis Cup in December in Madrid,
since in Melbourne he could only train but not play,
as he was not vaccinated against the coronavirus
.
His visa was finally annulled after 15 days of an unprecedented controversy in relation to health protocols.
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11.45
Andalusia falls by 63 hospitalized to 1,078 and four patients in the ICU to 134
Andalusia has dropped this Saturday, February 19, to 63 patients hospitalized for coronavirus compared to the day before and registers a total of 1,078, 392 less in a week and
the lowest figure since December 29
(994), while ICU admissions they have fallen by four to 134, which represents a drop of 38 in the week-on-week comparison and the lowest figure since December 24 (137).
This has been reported by the Minister of Health and Families of the Andalusian Government, Jesús Aguirre, at an event in Córdoba, where he highlighted that hospital pressure is falling "at a good speed, especially at the ICU level," reports Europa Press.
The number of hospitalized falls by 63 this Saturday after having done so in 72 on Friday, 65 on Thursday, 66 on Wednesday, 12 on Tuesday, 114 on Monday (48 hours) and 68 last Saturday, when there were 1,470 hospitalized.
In the case of patients in the ICU, they drop by four this Saturday after having done it in three on Friday, ten on Thursday and another ten on Wednesday, rise by four on Tuesday, fall by 15 on Monday (48 hours) and seven on Saturday past, when there were 172 people in intensive care units.
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10.36
Income from covid and the risk of regrowth continue to decline in Catalonia
People admitted to Catalan hospitals for covid continue to drop and have gone from 1,921 yesterday to 1,812 this Saturday, and the risk of a resurgence has also gone from 976 points to 915, a figure that is still very high, since the "high risk" threshold is 100 points.
The speed of spread of the virus (Rt) rises slightly again, the same as yesterday, and stands at 0.66, one hundredth more than yesterday, that is, every hundred infected infect an average of 66 people, reports efe de the data updated this Saturday by the Department of Health.
Of the 1,812 admitted, 109 less than yesterday, there are 278 in the ICU, ten less than the day before.
On the other hand, the number of people who have died since the start of the pandemic in Catalonia is 26,459, 48 of them in the last few hours.
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10.31
Cantabria adds two more deaths while the sixth wave continues to subside
Cantabria has added two new deaths from Covid-19 (the total amounts to 767) while
the number of infections, incidence and hospitalizations continue to decline,
maintaining the downward trend in the community, which is at a medium risk level .
Cantabria registered 277 cases of Covid on Friday, 46 less than the previous day;
105 hospitalized, which is five less than the previous day, keeping the number of those admitted to the Intensive Care Units (ICU) at 13, according to Europa Press from the latest Health data, closed last midnight.
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10.15
New reduction in covid cases in Navarra, below 260
Navarra has registered this Friday a new reduction in the number of new cases of covid-19, which stood at 259, according to Efe of the provisional data provided by the Provincial Government.
On Thursday, 278 cases were registered in Navarra, on Wednesday 351, on Tuesday 335 and on Monday 414.
The areas with the most cases were
Txantrea
(14),
Rochapea (
12),
Mendillorri
(11),
Ermitagaña
(10) and
Berriozar
(9).
This Friday 130 people remained hospitalized for the coronavirus, sixteen of them in the ICU.
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10.05
Rome hotels are empty due to the covid-19 crisis
The hotels in Rome, from the luxury establishments of the mythical Via Veneto to the modest pensions of Trastevere, have suffered and continue to suffer the consequences of the
covid-19 pandemic crisis.
According to a study by the Unindustria union and the Rome Chamber of Commerce, presented in early February, the number of tourists in the Italian capital fell from 19.5 million in 2019 --of which 9.2 million were foreigners-- to 4.1 million in 2020 (1.6 million were foreigners).
In 2021 that figure fell even further, to 2.8 million, of which one million were foreigners.
Officially, of the approximately 1,200 hotels in Rome, 410 are currently closed and the rest
are working at 30% of their capacity
, the head of tourism for the Rome city council, Alessandro Onorato, warned in an interview with the newspaper
Corriere della Sera
in February . collect Afp.
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08.32
Hong Kong will test all its residents
Hong Kong authorities, facing their
worst Covid-19 outbreak in two years
, have announced that all
of the city's 7.5 million residents
will undergo mandatory testing and the appointment of the next head of government will be postponed. Executive, reports Afp.
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08.29
Ottawa: Police intervene to clear streets of anti-sanitary protesters
Canadian police launched a major operation this Friday to clear the streets of downtown Ottawa,
paralyzed for three weeks by a movement of opponents of health measures
, forcing the
Canadian Parliament to remain exceptionally closed
.
The police, deployed en masse in the streets of the federal capital,
made a hundred arrests
, reports Afp.
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08.27
Johnson has responded to the police questionnaire on the "partygate"
El primer ministro británico Boris Johnson ha entregado su respuesta al cuestionario policial sobre las fiestas en Downing Street que podrían haber vulnerado las regulaciones sanitarias impuestas por la pandemia, dijo su oficina el viernes, informa Afp.
La policía investiga las acusaciones de que Johnson habría acudido a encuentros que se saltaron el confinamiento y las normas de distanciamiento social, tras las revelaciones de algunos medios que han dejado al primer ministro luchando por su supervivencia política.
La semana pasada, Scotland Yard señaló que enviarían "cuestionarios formales a más de 50 personas" para preguntar sobre sus actividades en las fechas de al menos 12 encuentros en Downing Street entre 2020 y 2021.
El documento "tiene estatuto formal legal y debe ser respondido sinceramente" en un margen de siete días, indicó. Aquí la información completa
El primer ministro, que presentó su respuesta a tiempo, se arriesga a una multa salvo que pueda ofrecer razones creíbles por las que acudió a esos eventos a pesar de las restricciones vigentes por el coronavirus.
Johnson ya se disculpó en el Parlamento por una serie de encuentros identificados en un informe redactado por una alta funcionaria, pero se mostró dispuesto a seguir en el cargo.
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08.26
El G-20 promete 60.000 millones de dólares para la recuperación poscovid
Los ministros de Finanza y gobernadores de bancos centrales del G-20 se comprometieron este viernes en Yakarta a destinar 60.000 millones de dólares (unos 52.800 millones de euros) para apoyar a los países más necesitados en la recuperación postcovid, informa Efe.
En un comunicado conjunto tras dos días de reunión, los ministros y gobernadores declararon que tratarán de aumentar el compromiso hasta los 100.000 millones de dólares (unos 888.300 millones de euros) para acelerar la salida de la crisis por la pandemia.
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08.15
Tedros advierte contra la "narrativa" de que la pandemia de Covid está llegando a su fin
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned this Friday against the "dangerous narrative" that the pandemic is coming to an end due to the high vaccination rate in some countries and the lesser severity of the omicron variant.
"The pandemic has not passed when there are 70,000 people dying a week from a disease that is treatable, when 83% of the population of Africa has not yet received a single vaccine," he said at the Security Conference that started in Munich, in southern Germany, reports Efe.
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