EFE
LThe Minister of Universal Health and Public Health, Ana Barcel, has provided the data for the last 24 hours related to the coronavirus. Between Valencia, Castelln and Alicante have been diagnosed 55 new infections and a total of 13 new deceased. There have been 263 new discharges, so there are 558 patients admitted throughout the Community, 98 of them in the Intensive Care Units. Since the pandemic began, 1,315 people have died in Valencia.
During the video conference press conference, Barcel confirmed that 558 patients are still hospitalized (14 fewer than yesterday): 53 in Castelln (11 in the ICU), 152 in Alicante (43 in the ICU) and 353 in Valencia (44 in the ICU). Barcel says that a qualitative leap has been made in the number of tests. A total of 187,144 since the start of the pandemic, of which PCR is 130,333 and rapid tests 56,811.
On the other hand, the President of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, has announced the signing of a new agreement with the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the CSIC and Global Omnium to make available to the public health system “a tool that will allow us to detect early the presence of coronavirus in wastewater. “
We have signed a collaboration agreement between the Generalitat, @ScienceGob, @CSIC and @GlobalOmnium to make available to the public health system a tool that will allow us to detect early the presence of # COVID19 in wastewater @ximopuigpic.twitter.com/3kqLnhFtB3
? Generalitat (@generalitat) May 7, 2020
Puig assured that they have already started working on this new alliance. “This project is already underway and is yet another instrument in the fight against the pandemic. Having general, objective and daily data supposes a substantial advance to verify the functionality of the de-escalation “
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