The last 24 hours of the pandemic in Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom – Executive Digest

Spain

The Spanish Ministry of Health recorded an accumulated total of 7,039 new cases from Covid-19, of which 3,349 correspond to the last 24 hours, the highest number recorded for weeks, which brings the total number of infections in the country to 370,867.

The communities most affected by the increase in new cases are Madrid, with 1,020 cases, followed by the Basque Country with 547 and Aragon with 352.

The new data also shows the existence of 16 more deaths since Wednesday, another record number.

Spain is one of the countries most affected in the world by the pandemic. With 47 million inhabitants, the country still has 28,813 deaths by covid-19, which is equivalent to 110 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, a rate that places the country on the podium of the 27 European countries with the highest rate of contagion, and the 10th worldwide.

Italy

Italy today saw a further increase in the number of covid-19 infections, with 845 new patients detected in the last 24 hours, the highest number in the last 10 days, the Italian Ministry of Health announced.

According to the same source, six deaths were recorded between Wednesday and today, a slight decrease compared to the seven deaths from the previous day.

The country led by Giuseppe Conte has registered 256,118 infected people since the first local cases were detected on 21 February in the northern region of Lombardy. The total number of deaths is 35,418.

883 covid-19 patients are hospitalized across Italy, 17 more than the previous day, 58 of whom are in intensive care. The greatest increases occurred in the regions of Veneto (159), Lazio (115) and Tuscany (59).

UK

The UK has recorded six more deaths and 1,182 covid-19 infections in the past 24 hours, the British Ministry of Health announced today.

As of Tuesday, 16 deaths and 812 infections had been reported.

The cumulative official balance of deaths of people who tested positive increased to 41,403 deaths, and the number of infections diagnosed since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic is 322,280 cases.

On Monday the British government launched an appeal to identify more volunteers to participate in trials with vaccines against the new coronavirus, despite the fact that more than 100,000 people have already signed up.

The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed about 789,103 deaths and infected 22,473,382 people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report made by the French agency AFP.

In Portugal, 1,788 of the 54,992 people confirmed as infected died, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate-General for Health.

The disease is spread by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.

After Europe succeeded China as the center of the pandemic in February, the American continent is now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.

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