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With the Government of the Community of

on the warpath, the Minister of Health,

goes to Congress to defend the need for a state of alarm in part of the region to bend the curve of the pandemic, a measure that he will comply with this Friday one week.

Meanwhile, in the Madrid Assembly, the president and vice president of Madrid,

and

will report on their management and the work of the COVID-19 Group, respectively.

For its part, the epidemic situation in

continues to worsen while waiting for the closure of bars and restaurants to come into force for 15 days tomorrow, Friday, and the new capacity restrictions in shopping centers, shops, gyms, theaters and cinemas that it has approved the Catalan government to try to contain this "explosion" of

infections

.

Most EU countries are tightening social restrictions in the face of the second wave of the pandemic, which has forced

to activate an early warning system, and in

the authorities are preparing a curfew in the country's main cities , including Paris.

In addition,

gives way, after weeks of record daily infections, and undergoes a "partial confinement", with closures of the hotel industry and the prohibition of the night sale of alcohol and drugs, renouncing its strategy of leaving in the hands of the social common sense managing the pandemic with what he called "smart confinement."

You can also follow the last hour of Andalusia and the Canary Islands in the fight against the coronavirus.

The data of the coronavirus in Spain

* Source: Ministry of Health

Total figures: 908,056 cases of coronavirus diagnosed by PCR;

33,413 dead with positive test as of October 14

• 270,745 in

  Madrid

  (9,837 killed)

• 163,274 in

  Catalonia

  (5,890 dead)

• 81,773 in

  Andalusia

  (2,053 dead)

• 58,811 in

  Castilla y León

  (3,280 dead)

• 50,492 in

  the Basque Country

  (1,973 dead)

• 50,780 in

  Castilla-La Mancha

  (3,277 dead)

• 46,842 in the

  Valencian Community

  (1,663 dead)

• 41,298 in

  Aragon

  (1,495 dead)

• 25,011 in

  Galicia

  (800 dead)

• 24,682 in

  Murcia

  (253 dead)

• 23,259 in

  Navarra

  (627 dead)

• 15,568 in the

  Balearic Islands

  (321 dead)

• 15,303 in the

  Canary Islands

  (250 dead)

• 13,227 in

  Extremadura

  (637 dead)

• 9,851 in

  La Rioja

  (435 dead)

• 7,478 in

  Cantabria

  (240 dead)

• 7,312 in

  Asturias

  (361 dead)

• 1,466 in

  Melilla

  (9 dead)

• 884 in

  Ceuta

  (12 dead)

7.00 A group of 80 scientists warn in 'The Lancet' that group immunity is a "dangerous fallacy"

Public health strategies that rely on group immunity to combat the COVID-19 pandemic are a "dangerous fallacy", warns a group of 80 international scientists in an open letter published this Wednesday in the journal "The Lancet".

Allowing the virus to spread among sectors of the population with fewer risk factors, while protecting the most vulnerable people, is a route that "is not supported by scientific evidence," the researchers warn.

"The evidence is very clear: controlling community infections of COVID-19 is the best way to protect our societies and economies, until effective vaccines and therapeutic methods arrive in the coming months", consider the signatories of the text.

6.30 Germany registers more than 6,600 infections, the daily maximum in the entire pandemic

German health authorities reported 6,638 new cases of Sars-CoV-2 today, the highest daily in that country since the start of the pandemic, and a total of 33 fatalities in 24 hours.

The figure is a clear increase compared to the 5,132 new infections, with 40 deaths, registered on Wednesday, according to data provided by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), competent in the matter.

The count of verified infections in Germany since the start of the pandemic rises to 341,223, with 9,710 fatalities with or from COVID-19 and 284,600 patients recovered, according to RKI data.

Until today, the daily maximum was about 6,300 new newspapers at the end of March.

By then the number of weekly tests was below half a million;

by mid-August it had risen to 1.1 million and now it stands at 1.5 million.

The data of new infections since the beginning of October point to a clear acceleration.

On Wednesday of last week 4,059 infections were reported, which exceeded 4,000 for the first time since mid-April.

On Wednesday the 5,000 had already passed, with the aforementioned 5,132 new cases.

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