By Cathy Elelman • Published: 16 Apr 2020 • 14:28
INCREASE: There have been another 12 confirmed Covid-19 cases in Almeria since Wednesday. CREDIT: mattthewafflecat on Pixabay
FOR the third consecutive day there have been no coronavirus-related deaths in Almeria. The number of Covid-19 fatalities in the province as of today, Thursday, remains at 38. But there have been another 12 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the total up to 428. Press reported that this significant increase in new infections could be down to the increase in rapid testing being carried out in recent days in all the province’s residences. There is also a variation in the figure for recoveries today. Yesterday the Junta de Andalucia reported that 100 people in Almeria had recovered from the virus, but today the regional administration has lowered that number to 90. The explanation given by the Junta’s Health and Families department is that “the small fluctuation in the absolute number of figure depends on different factors related to the collection of the same, which is carried out day by day, case by case, and the improvement in the quality of the same.” To date, 181 of the province’s coronavirus patients have had to be hospitalised and 35 have received treatment in intensive care.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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