The coronavirus pandemic has left more than 475,000 cases and nearly 10,000 deaths worldwide during the last 24 hours and already exceeds the 118.5 million infections on the planet and reaches 2.63 million deaths, according to data from the Universidad Johns Hopkins, one of the main centers for monitoring the disease. The agency has indicated through its website that more than 67.1 million people have recovered to date of covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
U.S is the country most affected in total figures, with more than 29.2 million cases and 530,821 deaths, ahead of India, with 11.3 million infections and 158,306 deaths, and Brazil, with more than 11.2 million accumulated positives and 272,889 deaths, respectively. Mexico It is the third country with the most deaths from covid-19, with 193,152, although it appears as thirteenth in the number of infections.
In Spain, the continued incidence continues its downward trend and it stands at 132.25 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days.
Ana Maria Rodriguez
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Yesterday, the European Medicines Agency approved authorizing the single-dose vaccine from Janssen, a subsidiary of the United States Johnson & Johnson, already become the fourth vaccine available in the European Union.
Today, the BOE publishes this Friday the mandatory measures for the holiday of San José and Holy Week, which include the perimeter closure of all the autonomous communities, which is expressly opposed by Madrid, the ring is from 23 to 6 hours and meetings of a maximum of 6 people in open spaces.
The rules, agreed in the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System last Wednesday and that come into force at the time of their publication, are set for the period covered between March 17 and 21 in those communities where it is a holiday on March 19; and from March 26 to April 9, 2021 throughout the territory.
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10:52 – LAST MINUTE | The first case of the South African variant of covid-19 that has been detected in Andalusia has occurred in Granada in a patient from Equatorial Guinea, as announced this Friday the Minister of Health and Families, Jesús Aguirre.
The patient, a member of an NGO, has not been detected close contacts, according to the epidemiological study, as Aguirre explained at the beginning of his intervention at an informative breakfast organized by the newspaper ‘Córdoba’.
The affected person is already in home monitoring and is progressing favorably, after being diagnosed with covid-19 on February 25. The patient, of whom the counselor did not provide further information, suffers from pneumonia as a result of the contagion.
10:35 – GALICIA | The data of the covid-19 pandemic continues to decline in Galicia, which falls from the three thousand active cases (2,931, 161 less) and decreases the care pressure, with 73 patients in ICU (four less) and 257 in units of conventional hospitalization (14 less).
According to data from the Galician Health Service provided this morning, until 6:00 p.m. this Thursday the daily infections are 167, nine more than in the previous count.
10:35 – CATALONIA | Catalonia has registered 572,278 accumulated confirmed cases of coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic -530,112 with a PCR test or antigen test-, 1,452 more than in the count on Thursday, has informed the Ministry of Health of the Generalitat through their website.
The total number of deaths stands at 20,982, which is 26 more than those registered on Thursday: 13,244 in hospital or social health center, 4,550 in residence, 1.40 at home and 2,048 that are not classifiable due to lack of information.
10:06 — Several police unions have expressed concern about being vaccinated with a batch of the pharmaceutical AstraZeneca that has been recalled in Denmark and Austria after registering “serious cases of thrombi” in people who had received it.
José Pichel Isabel Morillo. Seville
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The Danish Directorate General for Health (SST) announced on Thursday the temporary suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine for 14 days, although the authorities said that it could not yet be concluded that there is a direct relationship between the vaccine and thrombi.
09:58 – The Ministry of Health of China has reported 19 cases of coronavirus in the last day, 9 of them with symptoms and 10 asymptomatic, all from abroad.
09:57 – The opposition leader of Kenya, Raila Odinga, has confirmed that he has tested positive for coronavirus after entering a hospital with “fatigue” and amid speculation about his health after not attending several official events in recent days.
09:37 — Russian authorities They have confirmed this Friday about 500 deaths from coronavirus during the last 24 hours, with which the country has exceeded the barrier of 91,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
The national operational center for the fight against the coronavirus has indicated that during the last day 9,794 cases and 486 deaths have been detected, which places the totals at 4,370,617 and 91,220, respectively.
08:51 – The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, has not ruled out this Friday that the Government may extend the state of alarm beyond its expiration on May 9, although it has made it clear that “the current objective” of its department is that the accumulated incidence falls to 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
???? DIRECT | Special @LasMananas_rne with @inigoalfonso from the Puerta de Hierro Hospital in Madrid.
The minister of @sanitygob, @CarolinaDarias: “We know that the incidence rises fast and that it costs a lot to go down”.
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– National Radio (@rne) March 12, 2021
“We have to see it, now what we are doing is lowering the incidence,” the minister replied after being asked about the extension of the state of alarm. In an interview with RNE, Darias insisted that, once “this figure is reached, we will seek to reach a” normal scenario “, estimated at 25.
????DIRECT | Special program from the Puerta de Hierro Hospital
????@CarolinaDarias, Minister of @sanitygob: “The Ministry and, in this case, the Spanish Medicines Agency permanently monitor since any vaccine is supplied”
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– The Mornings of RNE (@LasMananas_rne) March 12, 2021
08:37 — The German authorities have confirmed this Friday more than 250 deaths from coronavirus during the last day, with which the European country exceeds the threshold of 73,000 deaths, according to data collected by the Robert Koch Institute.
Isaac Risco
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The agency, the government entity in charge of the control of infectious diseases, has indicated that during the last 24 hours, 12,834 infections and 252 deaths have been confirmed, which places the totals at 2,545,781 and 73,062, respectively, since the start of the pandemic. .
08:00 — The Government has extended until March 30 the limitation of direct flights and passenger ships between UK and Spanish airports and ports and flights between Brazil and the Republic of South Africa and the Spanish aerodromes.
The order, collected this Friday at the State official newsletter (BOE), was approved in the Council of Ministers this Tuesday and extends the orders of December 22, 2020 and February 2, 2021, by which, respectively, the Executive established exceptional measures to limit the spread and contagion of the covid-19 variants.
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