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Latest news on Covid in Spain, vaccination and the situation of the coronavirus pandemic in the world.


  • 16:05 October 5th , 2021 Vaccination without an appointment arrives on Thursday and Friday at the Complutense University

    The Community of Madrid will vaccinate against Covid-19 without prior appointment during the next Thursday and Friday at the campus of the Complutense University of Madrid, within the initiative put into march by the regional government to extend immunization among the population.

    Specifically, the coronavirus vaccine can be received from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the La Almudena Sports Complex and at the Complex Deportivo de Somosaguas, as reported by the university center in a statement.

    This initiative, which is carried out in collaboration with the Red Cross, started in mid-September on the university campuses of the region with the aim of bringing vaccination to more people.


  • 15:30 October 5, 2021 EMA will study “in the next few days” if he initiates a review of the antiviral molnupiravir

    The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will study “in the next few days” if you initiate a continuous review of the investigational antiviral drug molnupiravir, which could halve the risk of hospitalization or death in at-risk, non-hospitalized adult patients with mild to moderate Covid-19.

    “In the next few days we will study the possibility of starting a continuous review for this compound. And, of course, the idea is to understand if the data supports said continuous review, “said Marco Cavaleri, head of Strategy for Biological Health Threats and Vaccines at the EMA at a press conference this Tuesday.

    In a phase 3 trial, this drug from the companies MSD and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by approximately 50 percent. 7.3 percent of patients receiving molnupiravir were hospitalized or died until on day 29 post-treatment (28/385), compared to 14.1% of placebo-treated patients (53/377).


  • 15:08 October 5, 2021

    Andalusia proposes to “match” the third dose of the Covid vaccine to people over 65 with the campaign of the flu

    The Junta de Andalucía will defend this Tuesday, within the Public Health Commission, a proposal to “pace” the campaign of flu vaccination, which will begin in this autonomous community on October 14, with the inoculation of a third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna to people over 65 years of age who have two doses given.

    This has been advanced by the Minister of Health and Families, Jesús Aguirre, to questions from journalists at the press conference after the usual weekly meeting of the Governing Council, and after the Agency European Medicines Agency (EMA), has approved, “when deemed necessary by the In various countries, apply a third dose “of the Covid vaccine” to people over 18 years of age if necessary, “as stated by the counselor himself.

    Aguirre has explained that in The meeting called for this Tuesday afternoon of the Public Health Commission, Andalusia will present a proposal that “it hopes will be approved and effective as of tomorrow”, to vaccinate people with the “third dose of Pfizer or Moderna” “over 65 years” of age, “and match” that vaccination with the flu vaccination.

  • 15:05 October 5, 2021 Living with Covid would subtract 4.5 trillion from GDP over the next five years, according to the IMF

    The world economy will suffer an adverse impact of 5.3 trillion dollars (4.5 trillion euros) over the next five years if an “endemic scenario” is confirmed, where much of the world remains unvaccinated and economies adapt to “living with Covid”, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

    In a speech delivered at Bocconi University before the IMF’s annual meeting begins next week, the institution’s managing director, Bulgarian Kristalina Georgieva, has warned that the global recovery continues to be “hampered” by the pandemic and its impact, anticipating that the entity will slightly moderate its growth forecasts, which will be announced in seven days.

    “In July, we project u n global growth of 6% in 2021. Now we expect growth to moderate slightly this year, “he anticipated.

    In this sense, Georgieva has pointed out as the most immediate obstacle to recovery from the “large vaccination gap”, which results in too many countries having little access to vaccines, while economies remain deeply divided on their response capacity, as well as their scope for support recovery and your ability to invest for the future.


  • 14:56 October 5, 2021 More Madrid asks the Community to eliminate the obligation atority of the use of masks in school playgrounds

    The Parliamentary Group of More Madrid has registered an initiative by which it asks the Community of Madrid to Eliminate the mandatory use of masks in schoolyards, as well as the adoption of a rigorous plan to reduce ratios that allows the elimination of masks in classrooms to be proposed for the next year.

    On In particular, it is a Proposition No of Law (NLP), which has been advanced today by the spokesperson for Más Madrid, Mónica García, with which they also ask to urge the Community to send a recommendation to educational centers to go, in a progressive, allowing access of parents to the centers in deliveries, collections and complementary activities, especially in the infant cycle, with the aim of recovering the essential involvement of families ias in schools.


  • 14:51 5 of October, 2021 83% of Andalusians between 12 and 19 years of age have the complete vaccination schedule and 87.4% have at least one dose

    Andalusia has administered until this Monday, October 4, a total of 12,843,974 doses of the Covid vaccine -9,813 more in 24 hours-, and a total of 6,685,708 Andalusians have the complete vaccination schedule -7,408 more- , while 6,842,591 already have at least one dose, so that 83% of Andalusians between 12 and 19 years of age have the complete vaccination schedule and 87.4% have at least one dose.

    As indicated by the coronavirus part of the Junta de Andalucía, with These figures, the region has 78.9% of the population with the complete vaccination schedule and 89.67% of those over 12 years of age, while 80.8% of the population and 91.8% of the elderly age 12 has received the first dose.

  • 14:49 October 5, 2021 Andalusia continues to decrease the incidence to 40.9 points and adds 13 deaths and 218 infections in 24 hours

    Andalusia registers this Tuesday, October 5, a total of 218 coronavirus infections, lower than the 199 of the Tuesday and at 311 a week ago, according to data consulted by Europa Press in the Andalusian Institute of Statistics and Cartography (IECA), which recorded 13 deaths, ten more than those of the previous day and five more than those of last Tuesday.

    For its part, the cumulative incidence stands at 40.9 per 100,000 inhabitants and continues at a low risk level per c oronavirus, so that it drops 1.8 points in 24 hours and 14 points in a week

    The 218 positives are registered after the 199 on Monday and Sunday, the 246 on Saturday, the 318 on the Friday, Thursday 351, Wednesday 321 and last Tuesday 311.


  • 14:28 October 5, 2021 Galicia plans to keep the mask “out of prudence” in schools, even outdoors, but will analyze it

    The Minister of Health of the Xunta de Galicia, Julio García Comesaña, has been clear in favor of prevailing and l criterion of “prudence” in the use of the mask in the school environment. Thus, for the moment no changes are foreseen, not even in outdoor spaces such as recess (where outside of schools it is allowed to remove the mask), although it has clarified that this issue will be addressed with the Ministry of Education.

    In response to questions from the media, the head of the sanitary portfolio, Julio García Comesaña, has indicated that, in general, in those areas where there were capacities of 50 percent, it goes to 75 and in those that already had 75 percent capacity, it increased to 90 percent, something that was also linked to the educational field.

    Regarding the use of masks in schoolchildren, Comesaña has answered that “it must be analyzed with Education”, since it is a question that has arisen recently. “We have to analyze all the particular situations and we have to decide,” he pointed out.


  • 14:24 October 5, 2021 Castilla y León adds 60 Covid-19 infections and one deceased in hospital

    Castilla y León has notified this Tuesday 60 new positives of Covid (41 more than in the previous day and eleven less than last week), to add 305,043 since the beginning of the pandemic, with one deceased, bringing the figure to 6,172, and eight new medical discharges, 33,298 in total, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Health.

    In total, 305,043 positive Covid-19 have already been diagnosed in the Community, including those reinfected, in the different types of tests, after adding 60 more new cases in the last day. Of this total, 298,556 positives have been confirmed in PCR and antigen tests.


  • 14:21 October 5, 2021

    The CSIF Prisons Córdoba union has requested the management of the Alcolea Penitentiary Center to adopt different measures, such as mass screening, in the face of the Covid coronavirus outbreak -19 detected in jail with eight cases already officially confirmed, which has caused “the closure of module 1”, and “due to the suspicion that there could be more contag ios, since the inmates living there carry out activities and work throughout the establishment. “

    In a statement, the union echoes “the enormous concern among the staff” over this fact and claims “immediate action to gain its control”.

    CSIF requests that a massive screening be carried out “as soon as possible”, of both inmates and prison professionals, and that maintain the schedule set for the pandemic until full sanitary normality is restored, among others.

    Also, they consider it “necessary to continue to insist on vaccination , appealing to responsibility, solidarity and public health reasons. “

    that the staff of the Alcolea Penitentiary Center provides “an essential and exemplary public service” and highlights “the professionalism of these workers in cases like this and like those that occurred in the last year and a half since the first state of alarm was decreed.”

  • 14:15 October 5, 2021 Galicia expands capacity to 90% and hospitality meetings to 10 people indoors and 20 outdoors

    Galicia will expand from this Saturday, October 9, the indoor capacity, as well as the meetings in hospitality premises to 10 people inside and 20 on the terrace – they are now at eight and 15, respectively – while there will be no change in terms of nightlife.

    This was announced this Tuesday by the Minister of Health, Julio García Comesaña, at the conference press to report on what was agreed by the clinical committee in its meeting this past Monday, who highlighted that Galicia is in “controlled risk” and enters levels of “new normal”.

    For this reason, Comesaña has valued that the situation allows “greater openness and de-escalation” with the expansion of capacity from 75 to 90 percent, with some exceptions.

    Specifically, shops, academies, places of worship, congresses, places of worship and sports facilities will pass from 75 to 90 percent of capacity from this Saturday and the maximum number of groups of people as in gyms are eliminated.

    Regarding musical and artistic shows indoors, they increase in seated public from 75 to 90 percent; while in standing assistants 50% will be allowed.

  • 13:22 October 5, 2021 La Rioja falls below 100 active cases, with stability in hospital pressure with 10 admitted

    La Rioja falls once again from the 100 active cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, with 9 less than yesterday, until it was 94. A day in which no deaths have been registered, while hospital pressure remains stable, with 10 people admitted to community health centers.

    Thus, up to now, in La Rioja a total of 823 people have died from the disease, 324 of them residents of senior centers in the autonomous community.

    Regarding the healthcare pressure, the San Pedro de Logroño Hospital has 4 people admitted to the ward (same as yesterday), with zero admissions and 0 discharges. On the other hand, in the ICU there are 4 Covid patients (the same ones that do 24 hours).

    Currently, and given the evolution of the virus in the In the region, the Riojan Government has 43 ICU beds at the San Pedro Hospital. Thus, adding to those admitted for non-COVID pathologies (14 today, two less than yesterday), the Riojan ICU has 18 patients and is at 41.86 (about five points less than on Monday).


  • 13:21 October 5, 2021 Euskadi registers 92 new positives and the incidence rate per 100,000 inhabitants stands at 62 cases

    Euskadi registered 92 new infections of covid-19 this past Monday, which is 25 more than the previous day, and the rate of positives has dropped to 1.7%, two tenths less than Sunday.

    The cumulative incidence in 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants drops to 62.05 cases. In the ICUs of Basque hospitals there are 34 patients, five less than the day before, and no new admission to the ward must be registered, where 57 patients remain admitted, the same as on Sunday.

    According to the latest data provided by the Basque Department of Health, during the day this past Monday, 5,327 diagnostic tests were carried out (3,129 PCR and 2,198 antigen tests), 1,725 ​​more than those carried out on Sunday, with a result of 92 new infected, compared to 67 the previous day.


  • 13:00 October 5, 2021

    Murcia registers 41 positive cases of Covid-19 in a day with two deaths

    The Region of Murcia has registered 41 new positive cases for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, in a day with two deaths from this cause. They are a man and a woman of 72 and 97 years old, from health area VII (Murcia Este). Thus, the number of reported deaths rises to 1,738.

    Of the 41 new cases, eleven correspond to the municipality of Murcia; seven to Cartagena; three to San Javier; two to Torre Pacheco; two to Totana; two to Calasparra; two to Caravaca de Cruz; two to Yecla; two to San Pedro del Pinatar; two to Molina de Segura. The rest are distributed by the other municipalities.

    The number of admissions reaches 50 people hospitalized in total (eight fewer), and nine in ICUs (five fewer). A total of 140,930 cases (41 more) and 637 people affected (51 fewer) have been confirmed since the beginning of the pandemic.


  • 13:00 October 5, 2021 The outbreak in two nursing homes in Seville accumulates 26 infected elderly people and seven employees

    Outbreaks of Coronavirus Covid-19 recently declared in the Beato Juan Grande and Hábitat Geriátrico centers for the elderly, in Seville capital, show 22 elderly people and five positive workers in the first case and four residents and two employees in the second, as reported to AND uropa Press sources from the Ministry of Health and Families.

    Thus, the evolution of such outbreaks compared to last week reflects three more cases in the Beato Juan Grande nursing home, which last Wednesday counted 24 residents infected and currently has 22 elderly and five infected workers; and six fewer cases in the Geriatric Habitat center, which last week counted ten elderly and two infected employees and this Tuesday four residents and two employees in such a situation.


  • 12:59 October 5, 2021 Galicia increases capacity to 90% from Saturday

    rate in Galicia, which on Monday entered a new normal, becoming the second autonomy in this situation after Asturias, they will increase from next Saturday, October 9, from 75 to 90% in general terms, and the idea is that in 15 days, an epidemiological cycle, these can be one hundred percent.

    The head of Health, Julio García Comesaña, in a conference held this Tuesday, welcomed the “greater openness” made possible by good epidemiological data and which will allow indoor activities (commerce, academies, places of worship, culture) can go from a cap of 75 to 90%, apart from eliminating the limit of groups for carrying out activities, for example in gyms.

    As soon as to artistic and musical shows, inside, it will be possible for 90% of the seated public, while standing, something so far not allowed, the possibility is 50%. Already abroad, the increase is from 75 to 90% seated and from 33 to 66% standing, eliminating the limit of 5,000 attendees.

  • 11:23 October 5th, 2021 The Basque Country will deactivate the Health Emergency and the LABI will dissolve after relaxing the restrictions

    The Basque Autonomous Community will deactivate the Health Emergency and the Euskadi Civil Protection (LABI) will be dissolved after the last meeting that will be held this Tuesday afternoon by its Advisory Council, chaired by the Lehendakari, Iñigo Urku Llu, which makes decisions on the measures to be established at all times based on the epidemiological situation of covid-19, as reported to Europa Press by sources from the Basque Government.

    The institutional table is It will meet at 4.30 p.m. in Lehendakaritza and is expected to resolve the deactivation of most of the restrictive measures for this week. It will be the Lehendakari who announces, at 5:00 p.m., the end of the Sanitary Emergency.

    Urkullu will appear publicly accompanied by the experts who have been part of the Scientific-Technical Commission of LABI, who has analyzed and proposed the measures to be adopted to contain the infections, as well as by the members of the Advisory Committee, which had the final word on the restrictions to be imposed.

  • 10:21 October 5, 2021 Aragon reports 67 new cases and no deaths in the last 24 hours

    The General Directorate of Public Health of the Government of Aragon has notified 67 new cases of coronavirus in the autonomous community, no deaths and 161 epidemiological discharges, results corresponding to this Monday, October 4.

    This is how it is collected in the provisional data of the web ‘ https://datacovid.salud.aragon.es/covid/ ‘. By provinces, 45 infections have been recorded in Zaragoza and 119 recovered; in Huesca, 12 positives and 25 discharges; and in Teruel, ten cases and 16 people recovered.

    The basic health areas with the most positives this day have been Alagón, Cella and Fraga, with four cases each; Teruel Centro, Monzón Urbana, Fuentes de Ebro, Delicias Sur and Utebo, with three.


  • 10:21 October 5, 2021 The Government proposes to raise the salary of public employees by 2% by 2022

    Cantabria continues at level 1 due to coronavirus in a day in which the number of hospitalized patients has been reduced, including those admitted to Intensive Care Units, and the rest of the indicators continue to decline.

    The exception is the new cases, since 30 have been detected, six more than on Sunday, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health corresponding to this Monday, October 4.

    Specifically, hospitalized patients have dropped to 19, two less, and there is also a admitted less to the ICU, so now there are three. In this way, the pressure in the plant is cut by one tenth and stands at 1.6% and 0.9% in the ICU, up to 2.9%.

    Most of those hospitalized are in Valdecilla –10, including the three from the ICU – and there are also six admitted to Sierrallana and three to the Laredo Hospital.


  • 08:26 October 5, 2021 The third dose plans on the next government and community appointments

    The Public Health Commission meets this Tuesday the day after q The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has given the go-ahead to administer booster doses of Pfizer to the general population over 18 years of age and an additional dose to the immunosuppressed.

    The vaccination campaign in Spain continues its course seeking to catch up with the furthest behind and puncturing third doses to residents of senior centers and people with compromised immune systems, such as transplants and cancer patients.

    The A key issue now is the decision taken by the Ministry and the autonomous communities after the announcement of the European Medicines Agency, which on Monday endorsed the use of a booster dose of Pfizer in the general population over 18 years six months after complete the guideline.

    “This dose can be considered”, has defended the EMA, which leaves the decision in the hands of your health authorities.

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