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It is the “second wave”, the second wave, according to many experts. Spain ranks fourth in the daily world ranking for the highest number of new coronavirus infections registered in 24 hours, according to WHO data updated to September 10. The top three positions are still held by India, the United States and Brazil. So Madrid follows him closely. Things are not going well on the Sars-CoV-2 containment front in Spain. From mid-July onwards, the curve for new cases indicates almost continuous growth. There are now around 10,000 new confirmed cases per day, figures not far from those of March and April. However, as in Italy, we are not currently witnessing the suffering of the health system: the vast majority are asymptomatic and there are 1,131 patients in intensive care in total. In April, at the most difficult moment, they reached 10,000.
Today, however, Catalonia reports 1,215 new cases. Many. In several provinces, write today The country, labs don’t have enough staff or reagents to respond quickly enough to this second wave of the virus. During two weeks between the end of August and the beginning of September, there was a significant bottleneck, especially in the Community of Madrid, where there was up to 10 days of delay in the communication of the results of the molecular swabs, but similar problems were also found . in Aragon, Catalonia, La Rioja, Andalusia and Castilla y León. A large union of primary health care physicians, Amyts, announced an indefinite strike in late September over the “unsustainable amount of work” needed to deal with the current pandemic.
Spain is the first European country with 500,000 cases since the beginning of the epidemic
A few days ago, Spain became the first state in the European Union to reach the threshold of half a million cases since the beginning of the epidemic. The last two weeks of swabs speak of 260 infections per 100,000 inhabitants, double that of France (which is also not in good shape): the 14-day notification rate of new cases of COVID-19 should be taken with caution. ; It is calculated by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (Ecdc) based on data collected by the agency’s Epidemic Intelligence in various ways. Therefore, the data can be clearly influenced by local testing strategy, laboratory capacity, and the effectiveness of surveillance systems – but it is a signal and must be taken into account.
We must also worry about the positivity rate, that is, the number of swabs positive for Sars-CoV-2 compared to the number of swabs performed: around 10% of Spaniards tested for coronavirus are positive, an extremely higher number that of Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom. The World Health Organization estimates that to keep the epidemic under control, this proportion must be less than 5%. This also indicates that the tests are carried out in places with high contagion ”, justified this Thursday Fernando Simón.
Today, the director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón, ensures that the most recent data indicate that the incidence of transmission of the new coronavirus is “stabilized or decreasing” in half of the Spanish provinces: “It seems that in Spain, the rate of infections is decreasing, although there is still a significant transmission, ”he said at the conference. Simon Then he pointed out that all of Europe is in a “growing phase” of infections and that Spain is, along with Germany, the country with “lowest” mortality rate in Europe.
Coronavirus in Spain: we think about tourist corridors for the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands
And then there are the fears of tourism. “We will negotiate the opening of tourist corridors, at least for the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands. We do not want more restrictions on the borders. The pandemic has attacked one of the most European freedoms: freedom of movement.” ‘Corriere della Sera‘the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, Arancha González Laya. “Europe, I think, has been very effective in coordinating the management of its external borders, with containment measures that are reformed every 15 days. But it has been much less efficient in managing borders within the European Union.”
Each country has taken the measures it considered most appropriate, without coordination. That is why we seek harmonization and a more rational reading of the data with Italy, France and Germany: not only how many infections in a day, but also how many tests have been carried out, how many shelters, in which regions. It makes no sense to quarantine an entire nation. We are learning “.
Even Donald Trump spoke yesterday of Spain: “We continue to advance in our battle against the Chinese virus”, as defined by the magnate SarS-CoV-2. “Deaths are down 20% compared to last week, they are falling very fast. This contrasts with what happens in the countries of the European Union, which have recently registered strong increases in cases. They have big peaks there – he continued – We hope to be behind their peaks. We will see, but we are doing very well, throughout our country. In the last 5 weeks, cases have doubled in France, they have risen more than 300% in Spain: I spoke with the Spanish leaders and they are having a hard time. ”
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The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, aThey warn that the adoption of more “specific” measures and restrictions in Madrid (the most affected city) is not excluded if the situation does not improve with the return of mail. But he also asserted that “no one is capable of giving lessons and, with all due respect, Trump certainly cannot.” Homes for the elderly in Aragon recently caused 61 coronavirus outbreaks, all of which are still active. In Galicia, many schools delay the start of the new school year for a week.
