At the start of Holy Week, Spain adds 75,010 dead and a total of 3.255.324 contagions since the beginning of the pandemic Covid-19, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The accumulated incidence in 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants has increased four points, to 138.
To try to control the increase in infections, the regions will remain closed perimeter until next April 9. In addition, the Ministry of Health has recommended to the CCAA close the interior in the restoration when they are at a high or very high alert level, that is, with an incidence greater than 150 and other high indicators such as hospital occupancy. From Health they explain that this recommendation is due to the importance of transmission in closed places, where the number of people who are related are at high risk of transmission
Regarding vaccination, the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, he assured on Sunday about the rhythm of the campaign in Spain that he hopes that “In the next two weeks, those over 80 have been covered”.
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The Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification (Aenor) has certified Doctors of the World for its protocols against Covid-19, thus becoming the first Spanish NGO with this distinction. The Aenor certificate is an external endorsement of the effectiveness of the measures applied by the organization and, in parallel, supports that they comply with the guidelines set by the Ministry of Health in terms of prevention and hygiene on Covid-19. The seal is valid for one year, although it must undergo follow-up reviews every three months. Specifically, Doctors of the World has implemented a complete plan of security measures to prevent the spread of the virus, protecting both the hired staff and the volunteer staff and, above all, the people it serves.
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The Venezuelan Government has expressed this Sunday its rejection of Facebook’s decision to suspend the account of President Nicolás Maduro for 30 days for failing to comply with the rules on the dissemination of information about the coronavirus after the publication of a video in which he defended the “miraculous antiviral “carvativir. Maduro highlighted the efficacy of this drug, an oral solution derived from thyme that would neutralize the coronavirus without side effects, a claim without scientific support. In addition, Maduro assures that Carvativir can be used preventively and therapeutically.
When the news was known, the president announced that he would transmit his usual and daily press conference on the situation of the coronavirus in the country through another account of the social network, where he explained that “Facebook, in a totalitarian and abusive way, censored without notice and without protest, “picks up the national television network.
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The Community of Madrid extends the mobility restrictions due to the coronavirus on Monday with the perimeter closure of 7 municipalities and 5 basic health areas, while rising in Morata de Tajuña. From 00:00 on this Monday and until 00:00 on Monday, April 12, the towns of Paracuellos de Jarama, Villanueva de la Cañada, Navas del Rey, Santos de la Humosa, Torrejón de Velasco and Chapineria are perimeter. In addition, the restrictions are maintained in Navacerrada until 00:00 on Monday. The basic health areas of Valle de la Oliva, in Majadahonda, will also continue to be closed until this date; Nuñez Morgado and Virgen de Begoña, in Madrid, to which Vicálvaro-Artilleros and Valdebernardo, in the Vicálvaro district of the capital, will join.
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A total of 19 municipalities in the Basque Country are confined and with limitations in the hospitality industry as of today, Monday, March 29, having exceeded the cumulative incidence rate of 400 cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants. The director of Public Health and Additions of the Basque Government, Itziar Larizgoitia, published this past Saturday a resolution with the list of Basque towns that have been subjected to the new restrictive measures due to the worrying epidemiological evolution they are experiencing. There are a total of 19 municipalities, nine of them from Gipuzkoa, five from Bizkaia and another five from Álava. Eight localities have more than 5,000 inhabitants and their cumulative incidence rate of positive cases for coronavirus in the last 14 days equals or exceeds the figure of 400 per 100,000 inhabitants: Beasain, Elorrio, Ermua, Lazkao, Muskiz, Ondarroa, Ordizia, Urretxu .
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The Ministry of Health of China has confirmed this Monday 33 new infections of coronavirus, as well as two suspected cases of the disease, detected in the last 24 hours. Of the 15 new imported cases that have shown symptoms, eight have been reported in Guangdong, three in Inner Mongolia and two in Sichuan, while Shanghai and Hunan have reported one case respectively. Also in the last 24 hours, ten hospital discharges have been issued to patients who have managed to overcome the disease. Since the pandemic broke out, 5,277 imported cases of coronavirus have been detected in China, of which 5,108 have recovered, and 169 remain hospitalized.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has threatened this Sunday to take on the fight against the coronavirus in the country by imposing federal control over measures to curb the rate of infections, which could open the door to a legal dispute with the states, with whom It has not been “happy” for its lack of application of restrictions. After reversing the strict blockade that was initially ordered for Easter after the criticism, the Chancellor has denounced that the 16 leaders of the federal states have not complied with the established commitments, and it is they who have direct authority to impose restrictions. In an interview with the German television channel ARD Merkel has warned that “we cannot continue like this”, for which she has considered that they are at “a turning point” and has not stopped analyzing the situation yet.
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The Brazilian Ministry of Health has confirmed in the last 24 hours 44,326 positives for coronavirus, placing the infections detected at 12,534,688 since the health crisis derived from the pandemic began. In this time, on the other hand, 312,206 people have died as a result of the disease, a figure reached after adding the 1,656 patients who died in the last day. In contrast, 10,912,941 Brazilians have managed to overcome Covid-19, while 1,309,541 cases are still active today.
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Mexico has confirmed the arrival of another million AstraZeneca vaccines from the United States while health authorities have confirmed 194 deaths from the coronavirus in the last 24 hours. Since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, Mexico has added 201,623 fatalities out of the 2,420,746 estimated cases that have been detected so far. On the other hand, there are 34,495 active cases estimated, compared to 1,761,786 patients who have recovered from the virus.
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The Australian city of Brisbane will enter a rapid three-day lockdown after four new cases of locally acquired coronavirus were recorded on Sunday, the state government announced on Monday. The state is concerned about community transmission in the Queensland capital after the British variant was detected in a cluster of cases – now numbering seven infections – that emerged earlier this month. “It is the British strain, highly infectious”, has detailed the prime minister of the state of Queensland, Annastacia Palaszczuk. In two of the cases, it is not clear where the patients were infected, added the state’s Health Minister, Jeannette Young.
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Argentina received the first shipment of 218,000 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine this Sunday through the international COVAX mechanism. This first shipment begins the COVAX distribution process, with which Argentina is expected to receive a total of 9 million doses, and which will serve to continue vaccinating the priority groups established by the Government within the immunization plan. “Today is an important day because the arrival of doses begins through the Covax mechanism, a global initiative that seeks to generate equity in the distribution of vaccine doses,” has detailed the Secretary of Access to Health, Sandra Tirado .
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The Colombian Ministry of Health has detected in the last 24 hours another 7,139 cases of coronavirus, a figure with which the country already stands at 2,382,730 infections since the pandemic broke out. The latest update of the epidemiological situation in the country also shows that 165 people have died in the last day, while 6,387 hospital discharges have been issued. In total, Covid-19 has left 62,955 fatalities in the Latin American nation, compared to 2,267,760 patients who have managed to overcome the disease.
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