[NEWS] Spain suffers a slight rebound in the coronavirus figures with 95 deaths in 24 hours, 40% in Catalonia

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The coronavirus has already claimed 27,888 lives in Spain. The number of infections is 232,555.

 

 

 

 

 

Spain suffers a slight rebound in the coronavirus figures: 95 deaths and 416 new cases in the last 24 hours, according to data provided by the Ministry of Health. 40 of the deaths have been reported by Catalonia, one of the major outbreaks of the pandemic along with Madrid.

The number of positive cases detected by PCR tests since the pandemic began amounts to 232,555, with 27,888 deaths.

The new figures are above what was observed yesterday, but according to the assessment of Fernando Simón, director of the Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, "within what is expected in the ups and downs that we usually see in the final periods of the epidemic "

"Of these 416 we know that only 172 have started symptoms in the last seven days. There are some communities that still do not provide this individualized information that allows us to assess this data. Only three autonomous communities are lacking to establish the appropriate mechanisms to the daily transmission of the data of each of the patients. But in any case, the data indicates a very favorable evolution, as I already told you: only 172 for 16 autonomous communities and autonomous cities for which we have data in the last seven days " Simon explains.

"The number of deceased is 95, in the line of the last days, the fourth consecutive day below 100 cases. We had already had below 100 and then it went up a little. We have been with this trend for four days now. Being deceased and therefore a hard fact, it is in a much better evolution than what we observed the previous weeks ", emphasizes Simón.

Simón stressed that of the 95 deceased, almost 40% correspond only to an autonomous community and specifically to a single province (it refers to Catalonia and specifically to Barcelona). "25%, a little more, corresponds to a single autonomous community as well," says Simón about Madrid.

"These are data that vary, as more is known, errors are corrected. Now in the review and update of the patient files that the CCAA do, some cases are being detected that at the time had not been confirmed but had been given as confirmed, these are situations that happen with some frequency in the analysis of surveillance data and there may be some variability that until now is being well explained by the autonomous communities, "he stressed.

Regarding the number of hospitalizations, there has also been a small increase in the number: 193, which gives a total sum of 124,616 since the crisis began. ICU admissions in the last 24 hours have been 31, for a total of 11,445.

The director of the CCAES has explained why this little dance in the death toll: the data indicates 95 in the last 24 hours, but if the total presented today and yesterday's is subtracted, the result is 110. "It is due to two things , one that I just mentioned: problems of revision of files, of data, that in some case there has been a patient who had not been confirmed, did not have a diagnostic test and has been verified later. And in other cases, in the process update with the new notification mechanism there had been a small computer problem with the dates, that has been corrected and there may have been some small discrepancy between the data from yesterday and today, but discussing it with the autonomous communities the correct data is 95 deceased. "

Edited May 21, 2020 by YaKuZa--BoSs
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