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The Andalusian Government has decided not to wait for Pedro Sánchez and take measures even before the decree is known and activated with the state of alarm. The president of the Board, Juanma Moreno Bonilla, has decreed level 2 of the Territorial Emergency Plan, a scenario that has never been seen before in the history of the community, and this afternoon called the crisis cabinet of the Andalusian Administration.

The crisis cabinet will meet from 7:00 pm electronically and chaired by Moreno Bonilla and will be composed of the vice president, Juan Marín, and the advisers to the Presidency, Public Administration and Interior, Elías Bendodo; Health and Families, Jesúa Aguirre, and Finance, Industry and Energy, Juan Bravo. This body now assumes the functions that the Executive Committee for the Control, Monitoring and Evaluation of Special Situations had, which is automatically dissolved.

The activation of level 2 emergencies is a direct response to the postponement by Pedro Sánchez of the videoconference with the regional presidents that had been announced for this Saturday afternoon.

Bendodo explained that the Andalusian Government wanted "to wait for the measures announced yesterday by the Government of Spain and for the videoconference of autonomous presidents to be held, but the epidemic is advancing, contagions are increasing and it is necessary to act without delay."

Moreno Bonilla himself has harshly criticized Sánchez and on his Twitter account he has reproached the central executive for the "differences" between the partners of the PSOE and Unidas Podemos. "The situation requires urgency and determination," he said.

The activation of the Andalusian Territorial Emergency Plan entails the constitution of a Regional Advisory Committee, where the Andalusian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FAMP) and the General State Administration are present, which have been notified this afternoon to activate their representatives.

As explained by the vice president of the Board, Juan Marín, in an interview on the Ser network, collected by Europa Press, this crisis committee will be in charge of implementing orders and decrees to establish the confinement of cities and areas where the authority health transfers "worrying or alarming" data on the incidence of the coronavirus.

Marín has assured that "it is very likely" that the first confinement measures should be applied in coastal municipalities in the province of Malaga that register more than fifty inmates, but he has made it clear that "the possibility" that the confinement is not closed it extends "to the entire Andalusian territory according to the evolution of the data and always following instructions from the Ministry of Health".

After recalling that the situation in Andalusia continues to be "more positive or favorable than in other communities" despite accounting for 304 positives, the vice president of the Board thanked the "personal effort " of Andalusian public health professionals "for being in their jobs so that we are able to stop the spread of this virus, "as he recalled that many of those infected are doctors and nurses.

He has also insisted that, in addition to the reinforcements made in recent days, the Board is "in a position to hire up to 4,000 toilets if necessary", something that, he has detailed, "will be done progressively according to the evolution in each hospital and health center. "

Finally, Marín has trusted that the decision of the Government of the Nation to centralize purchases guarantees the supply of products necessary to attend this sanitary crisis. "We will have difficult times, but we will surely overcome it among all of us," concluded the Andalusian vice president.

Three deceased

Meanwhile, the coronavirus has already claimed its third victim in Andalusia. This is an 89-year-old man who was admitted to the Alto Guadalquivir Hospital in Jaén, who joins the two fatalities on Friday, also two men, aged 70 and 82, both hospitalized in Malaga. In all cases, the fatal victims had previous pathologies.

As for the number of infections, the latest count made public speaks of 35 new cases in the last hours, bringing the total number in the autonomous community to 304 .

By provinces, Malaga continues to accumulate the highest number of infected, almost half of the total, 146. Next, Jaén registers 34 infections, the same as Seville; Granada, 27; Córdoba, 23; Cádiz, 22; Almería, 14, and Huelva, four.

The new declared cases are pending confirmation from the National Center for Microbiology. Likewise, prevention protocols issued by the Ministry of Health have been activated to determine the possible direct contacts that these patients have had. For its part, the rest of the cases in Andalusia do not report changes since the last statement.

The Ministry of Health and Families has increased to 10 the laboratories authorized to receive samples of coronavirus. Thus, in Andalusia, those of the hospital complex of Jaén, Virgen Macarena, Hospital de Jerez, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Costa del Sol, Puerta del Mar, San Cecilio, Virgen de las Nieves, Reina Sofía and Virgen del Rocío are available.

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From February 25 to Friday March 13, Salud Responde has handled 30,548 queries about the coronavirus, 7,587 of which were attended yesterday. Together with them, the 061 coordinating centers have attended 9,192 queries for the same reason during this period, 1,573 of them during yesterday.

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