The report that the WHO has released in China this week on the origin of the coronavirus does not convince the United States, which this Saturday has explicitly cited the possible alterations that the content of that investigation may have suffered at the behest of Beijing. In the health field, the decline in infections coexists with concern about the spread of new variants. The French health authorities are concerned in particular by the case of a patient who has been reinfected with the South African strain and is in the ICU. From the hospital where he remains they stand out yes that it is an exceptional case
Italy has registered 13,532 new infections in the last 24 hours, an increase similar to the data in recent days, and 311 deaths. Infections in Italy are slightly lower than the almost 14,000 on Friday, but fewer tests have been done, about 290,000, a figure in which antigen tests are also taken into account. As for the situation in hospitals, the pressure is reduced slightly. Of the 401,413 people currently infected, 20,562 remain hospitalized, 269 fewer than the previous day and 2,062 require Intensive Care (-33).
The Italian Ministry of Health has recognized that 17.8% of coronavirus infections in the country are due to the so-called British variant a figure in line with that of the rest of Europe, although in some areas it exceeds 50 percent. Aragon has reported 302 cases of coronavirus corresponding to the results of 3,288 diagnostic tests, known this Friday, February 12 a day in which the percentage of positivity was 9.18% . The Transparency Portal of the regional Executive has published the final data for this Friday, with 226 infections in Zaragoza, 46 in Teruel, 25 in Huesca, and five cases in which it has not been possible to identify the province of origin.
The hospital beds occupied by Covid-19 cases in Aragon drop to 652, of which 90 are in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and 562 on the floor. A there are 1,357 beds available in the autonomous community, 67 in ICUs with a respiratory another eight without a respirator, and 1,282 in conventional hospitalization.After imposing almost total confinement in January the United Kingdom seems to have managed to stop the advance of the third wave of the pandemic and maintains a downward trend in deaths and infections, with 621 and 13,308 registered respectively in 24 hours according to data released this Saturday by the Ministry of Health.
According to these figures, between Friday and Saturday, there have been 1,741 hospital admissions, which closes a week in which there have been 25.9% fewer hospitalizations than in the preceding seven days. In the seven days until today, deaths have been reduced by 26.1% and infections by 27.3% compared to the previous seven days, official statistics indicate.
The number R or ratio of infections on Friday was below 1% for the first time since last July and now ranges between 0.7 and 0.9%. Prime Minister Boris Johnson today was optimistic about the possibility of detailing on February 22 a roadmap to deconfinement, with the priority of reopening schools on March 8. The Government also hopes to meet Monday its goal of having vaccinated the four main vulnerable groups of the population, some 15 million people. The Canary Islands Health Council has reported six deaths and 161 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, to which must be added 44 cases related to screening among migrants on the island of El Hierro.
The total accumulated cases in the Canary Islands is 38,145 with 6,827 active, of which 75 are admitted to the ICU and 297 remain hospitalized, the regional government has reported. Also in the last hours, there has been the death of six people in the Canary Islands: two women of 75 and 84 years and two men of 63 and 88 years in Gran Canaria; a 57-year-old man in Tenerife, and a 72-year-old woman in Lanzarote. All remained hospitalized, suffered from previous pathologies, and had experienced a clinical worsening. Also, five of the six deaths were associated with family outbreaks.
Cantabria has already completed the immunization process against Covid-19 after administering the two doses of the vaccine in their homes for the elderly, which continue to apply the protocols against the virus but are beginning to return to normal life.
This has been explained in statements to Cadena SER collected by Europa Press the president of the Federation of Dependency Companies (FED) of Cantabria, Rubén Otero, who has indicated that only a residual percentage remains to be vaccinated in the centers of older. He has said that it is about 2% of users and staff who have decided not to get vaccinated and another very small percentage who were not in the centers when the vaccines were administered or who were infected and have not been able to receive their dose.
Even though the majority of workers and residents are already immunized, for now, the protocols and all security measures against the virus are maintained, such as the use of PPE, visits by appointment, and the request that users leave the centers as little as possible. In this sense, Otero explained that, although the vaccine has been tested, it is new and questions such as how long its effect will last or what will happen if someone vaccinated becomes infected are still unknown. We are still afraid, he summarized. He recalled that according to experts group immunity will be achieved when 70% of the population is vaccinated, and the percentage currently is still very low 3.8% in Cantabria.
China declined to provide raw data on early COVID-19 cases to a team led by the World Health Organization investigating the origins of the pandemic, one of the team’s researchers said potentially complicating efforts to understand how the outbreak occurred. The team had requested raw patient data on the 174 COVID-19 cases that China had identified in the initial phase of the outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, as well as other cases but only provided a summary. said Dominic Dwyer, an Australian infectious disease expert who is a member of the team. Such raw data is known as line lists and is typically anonymized but contains details such as what questions were asked of individual patients, their responses, and how their responses were analyzed.
That is a standard practice for the investigation of an outbreak he told Reuters on Saturday through a video call from Sydney, where he is currently in quarantine. Gaining access to the raw data was especially important, he explained, as only half of the 174 cases were exposed to the Huanan market, the now-closed wholesale seafood hub in Wuhan where the virus was initially detected. That is why we have insisted on asking for that, he said. Why that doesn’t happen, I can’t comment. Whether it’s political or time-consuming or difficult But if there are other reasons why the data isn’t available, I don’t know. One would only speculate.
The Community of Madrid has notified 2,660 new diagnosed cases of coronavirus this Saturday, which represents a slight increase compared to the 2,555 reported on Friday, while deaths in hospitals have dropped from 54 to 44 and the downward trend continues of hospital pressure. Of the 2,660 new cases diagnosed, 2,131 correspond to the last twenty-four hours. According to the daily epidemiological report of the Ministry of Health, hospital pressure drops from 3,475 people admitted to the ward on Friday to 3,200 notified this Saturday, and those hospitalized in Intensive Care Units also decrease, from 690 to 682.
Extremadura has registered in the last 24 hours 87 confirmed positive cases of Covid-19 and 12 deaths, representing a total of 1,648 deaths since the start of the pandemic. In Extremadura hospitals, there are 262 people admitted, 53 of them in ICU while 459 discharges have been made which is equivalent to an accumulated 62,509 discharges. The Badajoz Health Area reported this Saturday four deaths two men aged 74 and 83 from Badajoz an 88-year-old woman from Talavera la Real and a 76-year-old man from Valencia del Mombuey. The Cáceres Health Area reported two deaths a 69-year-old man from Montánchez and a 90-year-old woman from La Cumbre.
The Don Benito-Villanueva de la Serena Health Area registered two deaths; a 65-year-old woman from Entrerríos and a 68-year-old man from Quintana de la Serena. The Mérida Health Area also reported two deaths an 82-year-old man from Mérida and a 64-year-old man from Almendralejo. The Llerena-Zafra Health Area registered the death of a 78-year-old man from Fuente del Maestre, while the Coria Health Area reported the death of a 91-year-old man from Moraleja. The Minister of Health of Peru, Pilar Mazzetti, has resigned in full political storm after the complaint that former president Martin Vizcarra had been vaccinated against Covid-19 months before the immunization campaign began in the country, according to the interim president Francisco Sagasti.
Minister Pilar Mazzetti presented her resignation last night Sagasti said in an interview with the RPP channel, confirming the advance on Friday night on public television and other Peruvian media. Sagasti indicated that Mazzetti’s successor, who will be sworn in this Saturday, will be the 76-year-old doctor Oscar Ugarte, who was already Minister of Health between 2008 and 2011, during Alan Garcia’s second term. Ugarte will be the fifth head of Health in Peru since the arrival of the coronavirus 11 months ago and will take office while the country faces the onslaught of the second wave of the pandemic, with a record of 14,333 patients with Covid-19 in its hospitals according to an official balance. Portugal has again registered a sharp decline in hospitalized patients this Saturday, with the hospital discharge record for 380 Covid patients on a day also marked by the start of vaccination of members of the security forces. The country which lived through a harsh January that brought it to the brink of sanitary collapse maintains the stabilization trend of the third wave of coronavirus which began to be seen this week.
149 deaths and 2,856 new cases have been reported in the last 24 hours, according to the latest bulletin from the Genera Directorate of Health which exposes especially favorable data regarding hospital pressure, which continues to fall. There are currently 4,850 people admitted to the country, 380 less than on Friday. Never have so many people been discharged in a single day since the start of the pandemic. The number of Covid patients in Intensive Care is also reduced, where 803 people are now treated, 43 less than the previous day. The United States has expressed its deep concerns about how the findings of the World Health Organization report on the origin of the coronavirus were communicated, according to the White House which calls on China to make the data available. in its possession since the days he detected the outbreak.
The White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said in a statement that the report must be independent and free from disruption by the Chinese government. The report, which was presented on Tuesday, attributes an animal origin to the pandemic that does not determine and assures that there is no evidence of transmission of the coronavirus in Wuhan before December 2019 but does not rule out that it had circulated before. More details about the report in this chronicle by Lucas de la Cal. The National Police on Friday raised 671 acts of sanction and detained six people within the device activated to monitor the perimeter closure of the cities of more than 50,000 inhabitants of the Valencian Community.
According to sources from the Government Delegation in the Valencian Community, the State Security Forces and Bodies (FFCCS) have resumed this Saturday morning the devices and surveillance “are developing normally. This Friday at 3:00 p.m. the perimeter closure of the cities was activated and between that time and 10:00 p.m., the National Police made 671 sanction proposals and arrested six people during a device in which there were 406 rejected vehicles. A man who passed the coronavirus last September and is now in the ICU due to reinfection with the South African strain worries the medical authorities in France since until now the vast majority of reinfections were mild.
The patient, who suffers from asthma and is therefore very sensitive to any additional respiratory problems, is in serious condition and connected to a respirator said a statement from the entity that groups Paris hospitals. What worries us is the severity of this second infection with a new variant of the virus Frederic Adnet, head of the Emergency Department at another Parisian hospital and an expert on the case told the BFMTV channel. Jean-Damien Ricard, professor of Intensive Medicine at the Colombes hospital, where the patient has been for three weeks, has tried to subtract alarmism since no matter how serious the patient’s condition, it is an exceptional situation the first that has been described.
Ricard indicated that there are several hypotheses to explain the severity of the case, from a possible immune deficiency of the patient to an “insufficient generation of antibodies after the first infection to the possibility that the new infection is of a more aggressive strain, in this case, the South African 501Y.V2, have more serious consequences. The Cantabrian Hospitality Business Association (AEHC) will present on Monday, February 15, its fifth complaint against the regional government for the restrictions imposed on the sector against the coronavirus, especially the closure of the interior of the establishments. The extension of this measure for another 14 days announced this week by the Ministry of Health “has been fatal” to the hoteliers, according to the president of the AEHC, Ángel Cuevas, in statements to RNE collected by Europa Press.
Cuevas insisted that this is a tremendously negative kick that hurts a lot” for the sector in Cantabria, while, he recalled, the Superior Court of Justice of the Basque Country has ruled this week in favor of the hoteliers, allowing the opening of establishments that had been closed due to being in risk areas. As a result of this judicial decision, the AEHC hopes that the Cantabrian Justice considers this time to make it more flexible before the lawsuit that it will present on Monday, although on the four previous occasions the Superior Court of Justice of Cantabria has agreed with the Government and the president of the hoteliers has already warned that the ruling of the Basque Country is not binding at all. The incidence of Covid-19 in Galician educational centers this Saturday maintains its sustained downward trend in recent days. In the latest balance offered by the regional authorities, there are 2,531 active cases in the educational community, 174 less than 24 hours ago.
The quarantined classrooms are also reduced, which are now 107 by 113 the previous day. And it is that all the areas go down inactive cases although two nurseries are kept closed in their entirety. In Navarra, 82 new positive cases of Covid-19 infection were detected on Friday according to data provided by the Navarra Institute of Public and Labor-Health (ISPLN), after conducting 2,492 tests in the health system (1,661 PCR tests and 831 antigen test). The positivity rate was 3.29%. 151 patients remain admitted to the centers of the regional hospital network, one more than on Friday. That day there were 10 new admissions related to this disease, one in the ICU. Likewise, no deaths were registered and one death from previous days was reported, that of a 97-year-old man. The total number of confirmed deaths from this cause in Navarra, therefore, stands at 1,079. The Covid-19 pandemic last year reduced the proportion of energy generated by burning coal, to the point that fossil fuels were partially eliminated from the mix of electricity generation and global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) from the energy sector decreased by around 7%.
This is explained in a study carried out by a team of economists based in Potsdam and Berlin Germany that analyzed the impact of Covid-19 on the energy system and the electricity demand. The work, led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK, for its acronym in German and published in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that the pandemic, although it has wreaked havoc on people’s lives and the economy, has also opened a window of opportunity for the current trend of reduction in the use of coal to be irreversible since emissions from the energy sector could fall faster than previously thought with the support of adequate policy measures climatic.
Coal has been more affected by the coronavirus crisis than other energy sources and the reason is simple says Christoph Bertram of PIK, who explains If electricity demand falls, coal plants generally shut down First. This is because the fuel-burning process constantly increases costs. Plant operators have to pay for every ton of coal. In contrast, renewable energy sources such as wind and solar plants once built, have significantly lower running costs and continue to perform even if demand is reduced.
In this way, global CO2 emissions associated with the energy sector fell 7% last year. Only in key markets such as the United States, Europe, and India monthly electricity demand decreased by as much as 20% compared to 2019 and monthly CO2 emissions decreased by as much as 50%. The presence of the coronavirus in wastewater has decreased in Madrid by 50% since January 20, as announced by the Minister of the Environment, Paloma Martín, in the presentation of a virtual map that will allow knowing the virus detection data every Tuesday in all the municipalities of the region and districts of the capital.
Through this new tool Madrid residents will be able to access data on the presence of the virus in the area they select from a web page, one more query element in which to see the evolution and trend of the presence of the virus in their place of residence or work among others, Martín has said. More details, in this information. The Minister of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency of the Generalitat, Bernat Sole, has ensured that all polling stations will be able to set up tables to vote during the day of 14F in Catalonia country can constitute all tables. press conference this Saturday about the Government’s device to guarantee that the day passes with total security in the face of Covid-19, it has encrypted 99.9% of the polling stations that have enough members to constitute themselves.
He added that from Tuesday to Friday, 29,687 people who constitute a polling station that add up to 82,251 between incumbents and substitutes have taken the antigen test offered by the Ministry of Health: and he has celebrated that only 0, 38% have tested positive for Covid-19 a figure below the positivity in Catalonia. The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Principality of Asturias has notified this Saturday of the death of eight people on Friday. They are three women aged 85, 92, and 97 and five men aged 64, 67 80, 86, and 88. Two of these people resided in a social health center for the elderly. 217 new cases of Covid-19 have been registered on Friday the 12th. The Health Service carried out a total of 4,807 tests on Friday and the positivity rate stood at 7.18 percent. according to the advanced data of the Regional Executive. The Valencian Community has registered 71 deaths from coronavirus and the new cases confirmed by PCR test or through antigen tests fall to 2,174 since then.
Thus the total number of positives stands at 362,823 people. By provinces 1,352 of the new cases have been registered in the province of Valencia 189,539 in total 642 in Alicante (136,339 in total), and 180 in Castellon 36,943 in total. Furthermore, the total number of unassigned cases in the entire Valencian Community amounts to two. More details, in this information from Cristobal Toledo. A study carried out by the employers association of the care centers for people, Caps, maintains that 79% of the residences have received the double dose of the Pfizer vaccine, and 93% have not produced cases of coronavirus and they are sprout-free after completion of the processing in 7% of the residences where the two doses have been inoculated has an outbreak occurred, and the effects of these are far below what happened in previous waves of coronavirus.
For this reason, when a year is about to be completed since the confinement in residences begins, the Business Circle of Attention to People asks the state and regional authorities to adopt the reality of residential centers and demands that they develop humanized protocols that prevent the cognitive and physical decline caused by isolation. Efe reports. The mayor of Madrid, Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida, has pointed out that the sanitary measures approved by the Community of Madrid have surprised the parties of the left, who had prepared a battery of criticism and have found that the Regional government guarantees health without giving up economic activity.
In statements offered to the media during an event, Almeida explained that the trend of the pandemic indicates that the number of infections is decreasing and that it is “beating the third. For this reason, it has defended the decision of the Community of Madrid to maintain the curfew at 10 p.m. and the closure of the hotel business at 9 p.m. until next Thursday, when, in principle, this schedule will be delayed. We go to scenarios in which the infections are minor, and based on that scenario is what the decision has been made he explained. Thus, he pointed out that, should this change in restrictions take effect the region will once again set an example that health can be guaranteed by maintaining and increasing economic activity. Europa Press.
Castilla y Leon adds 663 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, a week below a thousand, which places the global figure to date at 206,434 while registering 30 new fatalities of the 26 in hospitals and four in residential centers as well as a total of 25,185 medical discharges of which 252 new, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Health and collected by Europa Press. Andalusia registers this Saturday, February 13, 3,695 people hospitalized for coronavirus 168 less than the day before and 960 less in a week of which 698 are in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 12 less than on Friday and what it means lowering the threshold of 700 twelve days.
This is detailed by the Junta de Andalucía in its daily part of the pandemic, data that brings the region closer to the peak of hospitalized in the second wave of November 10 (3,478) with a difference of 217 although they are still far from the peak of 30 March 2020 (2,708) with 987 difference. Also, the 3,695 hospitalized this Saturday are 1,285 people from the peak of the third wave on February 2 (4,980). The Ministry of Health has added 5 new deaths to the official list of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, which amounts to 660 people this Saturday when 143 new infections have been counted.
As reported by the Government in its daily balance there are 301 patients with coronavirus admitted to the Balearic hospitals 29 less than on Friday of the 97 are in intensive care (the same as the day before) and 204 are treated in the plant. The positivity rate of the 3,177 diagnostic tests carried out in the last 24 hours has been 4.5% and to date, there are 4,814 patients with coronavirus treated by the Health Service. Efe reports. The rate of coronavirus infections has risen in the Basque Country in recent hours to 5.5%, after three consecutive days of declines and even falling below 5% for the first time in two months. The Department of Health of the Basque Government has reported the evolution of the pandemic with data from this past Friday, the day in which 11,236 diagnostic tests were carried out, almost 4,000 less than on Thursday, in which 613 people tested positive.
Even though the number of infections detected has dropped by 30 compared to the day before due to this decrease in the tests carried out, the positivity rate has gone from 4.7% on Thursday to 5.5% this Friday. Efe reports. The Community of Madrid has published this Saturday in the Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid (BOCM) the decree of the regional president Isabel Diaz Ayuso, which will delay the curfew at 11:00 p.m. from 00:00 on Thursday 18th of February. The BOCM for this Saturday also includes the order from the Ministry of Health that establishes, from that date the closure of the hotel business at 11:00 p.m. not being able to admit new customers from 10:00 p.m.
On the contrary, participation in social family or recreational gatherings in homes and spaces for private use continues to be limited to people who belong to the same nucleus or coexistence group with certain exceptions until 00.00 hours on March 1, 2021. According to the decree the limitation of the permanence of groups of people in private spaces must be maintained since the reduction of contacts and social interaction is one of the measures that is proving to be the most effective to contain the spread of Covid- 19. Europa Press. La Rioja has notified this Saturday three deaths from coronavirus in a day in which, on the other hand, the healthcare pressure continues to decrease with fifteen fewer patients admitted to 143. For its part, active cases rise slightly from 1,131 to 1,139.
According to the data provided today by the Government of La Rioja, the deceased are two men and one woman. All three had risk factors. Also, the deceased woman resided in a nursing home. Thus since the start of the pandemic 698 people have died in La Rioja from coronavirus. Of this number, 297 belonged to nursing homes. Report Europa Press. Cantabria has registered 83 new cases of coronavirus this Friday which is 23 more than the previous day, but it continues to reduce hospital occupancy by Covid patients for another day, and for the second day in a row it has not added more deaths from the virus.
Thus, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Health, there are currently 133 hospitalized for Covid (eight less than yesterday) although the number of admitted to the Intensive Care Unit has risen by one and stands at 24. With these figures, hospital occupancy has decreased by five-tenths to 9%, while ICU occupancy has grown by eight and reaches 20.5%. Report Europa Press. A total of 377 people remain admitted to one of the Canary Islands hospitals after being infected with coronavirus, of which 76 are in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). According to the latest data published by the Ministry of Health, in addition to the patients in the ICU, there are another 301 who are admitted to the hospital ward.
Regarding the total of active cases in the Canary Islands, there are 6,701, of which 6,324 are home isolation. The island of La Gomera does not have any active cases and has been free of coronavirus for several weeks. Report Europa Press. Galicia continues with the decline of the third wave of coronavirus with fewer active cases (-1,047) and fewer infections (-142) than the previous day according to the latest updated data, which shows that the drop in critical units is slower, with ten fewer admitted, up to 218 patients. According to the last part of the Galician Health Service, with data collected until 6:00 p.m. on Friday, Galicia registers 14,847 active cases and 506 new infections, while the deceased now total 2,080, after the last 24 reported deaths.
The PCRs carried out are 8,203, compared to 9,739 from the previous count, and 29% less (-4,000) than on Wednesday. Also, 11,651 serological tests have been carried out, 619 fewer. Efe reports. Catalonia has registered 533,338 accumulated confirmed cases of coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic, 2,258 more than in the count on Friday, the Ministry of Health of the Generalitat has reported through its website. The total number of deaths stands at 20,133, which is 55 more than those registered on Friday 12,581 in a hospital or social health center, 4,533 in residence, 1,117 at home, and 1,902 that are not classifiable due to lack of information.
As for the patients currently admitted, the figure stands at 2,222, which is 167 less than in the last count. Report Europa Press. In February 2020, on the threshold of the declaration of a state of alarm, Spanish prisons housed a total of 58,901 inmates. A year later there are 55,152, with which the prison population has decreased by 3,749 inmates during the year of the pandemic, that is, 6 percent. And if the hardest months of the first wave are taken into account, coinciding with home confinement, the number of prisoners decreased by 2,842 between March and June 2020 alone. Read the complete information. The Official State Gazette (BOE) collects this Saturday the extension until March 2 of the entry restrictions to Spain by air and sea from the United Kingdom and, by air, from Brazil and South Africa to limit the spread and contagion for the coronavirus.
In the case of the United Kingdom, only flights or disembarkation of passenger ships to Spain that are occupied by Spanish or Andorran citizens, as well as residents in both countries, may be made. The measure will take effect from 6:00 p.m. on February 16 to 6:00 p.m. on March 2. On the other hand, from the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Republic of South Africa, only flights to Spain that are occupied by Spanish or Andorran citizens, as well as residents in both countries or passengers in international transit to a non-Schengen country with a stopover less than 24 hours without leaving the transit area of the Spanish airport.
The extension of restrictions on flights from Brazil and South Africa will come into effect from 09:00 on February 17 to 18:00 on March 2, 2021. Europa Press reports. The University of Oxford has launched a study to assess the safety and immune response of the vaccine against the coronavirus that has developed with AstraZeneca in children for the first time, said Saturday. The new mid-stage trial will determine whether the vaccine is effective in people ages 6 to 17, according to an emailed statement from the university. About 300 volunteers will be enrolled and the first vaccinations are expected this month, Oxford said. More details, in this information. Navarra registered 85 new positive cases of coronavirus yesterday, 11 less than those detected the previous day, according to provisional data from the Government of Navarra.
Yesterday a total of 2,492 tests were carried out, between PCR and antigen tests, which gives a positivity rate of 3.4%. The Autonomous Community chains seven consecutive days below 5% positivity. Throughout the week, Navarra has detected 139 cases on Monday (4.8%), 89 on Tuesday (2.9%), 97 on Wednesday (3.4%), 96 on Thursday (4.1%), and 85 this Friday. Report Europa Press. The Severo Ochoa Hospital in Leganés is leading a clinical trial that investigates the efficacy of vitamin D3 administered orally in high doses to coronavirus patients affected by bilateral pneumonia.
The study focuses on adults at risk, although it covers other ages, and is in its third phase since its launch in June 2020, the center has reported in a press release. The objective of this trial is to demonstrate the efficacy of high-dose administration of cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) to patients with bilateral pneumonia caused by the coronavirus and who present with respiratory failure and very low levels of this vitamin. Cholecalciferol is administered as a complement to the treatment that these patients receive during their admission to the hospital, regardless of whether they are on the ward or in the ICU, they have specified from the center.
The Ertzaintza has imposed a total of 94 sanctions on 25 people who participated in a bottle with an institute in the Astrabudua neighborhood of the Biscayan town of Erandio, as reported by the Security Department of the Basque Government. The events occurred after eleven o’clock yesterday night, Friday when Ertzaintza patrols located the bottle. The agents located a group of 25 people who have imposed a total of 94 sanctions for non-compliance with anticovid health regulations. Report Europa Press. This Saturday marks a year since the first death in Spain of a coronavirus patient, a Valencian who traveled to Nepal. It was a patient with pneumonia of unknown origin who died at the Arnau de Vilanova Hospital in Valencia on February 13, although confirmation did not arrive until March 3.
This relationship was detected after the change in the criteria for defining cases that the Ministry of Health carried out on February 27 which called for a second analysis of deaths from pneumonia of unknown origin. The hospital had kept some samples and, after this change in the case definition a necropsy was performed which was positive. The first case of coronavirus confirmed in Spain by the National Center for Microbiology was on January 31: a German tourist who traveled to La Gomera and who was admitted and isolated in the Virgen de Guadalupe Hospital with four compatriots. Europa Press. A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has studied the effectiveness of different types of masks due to a large number of studies and recommendations, often contradictory, on which are the ones that protect better and for longer.
The study, published in the journal PLoS ONE, analyzed the N95, KN95, or FFP2, surgical and fabric, and found that to achieve the best protection against COVID-19 the fit is as important, or more important than the material of its done. The researchers conducted a series of different fit tests and found that when a high-performance mask, such as an N95, KN95, or FFP2 mask, doesn’t fit properly, it doesn’t perform better than fabric. Minor differences in facial features such as the amount of fat under the skin also showed significant differences in how well they fit.
The study suggests that the fit check routine used in many healthcare settings has high failure rates, as minor leaks can be difficult or impossible for the user to detect. While the sample size was small, the researchers hope their findings will help develop new fit tests that are quick and reliable, in the event of future public health emergencies. Report Europa Press. The British strain of the coronavirus has appeared in more than one in four tests analyzed in Denmark in recent days, according to a study by the Danish Institute of Health (SSI). Variant B.1.1.7 has been detected in 28.5% of the samples sequenced up to this Friday, according to preliminary figures from the SSI. A week earlier, the proportion was a provisional 20.3% and only 2.1% at the beginning of this year.
The British variant of the virus, which has been noted to be more contagious, was first detected in Denmark in samples taken on November 14. Report Europa Press. The Junta de Andalucía has agreed to reestablish departures and visits in nursing homes for the elderly as of today provided that at least seven days have passed since the second dose of vaccination against the coronavirus.
This is reflected in an order of the Ministry of Health and Families published this Friday in an extraordinary edition of the Official Gazette of the Junta de Andalucía (BOJA), consulted by Europa Press, after what was agreed last Wednesday at a meeting of the Alerts Council of High Impact Public Health, known as the committee of experts that advises the Board on the measures to adopt in the face of the pandemic, which was held in Córdoba chaired by the head of the Andalusian Executive, Juanma Moreno. The Junta de Andalucía prohibits from this midnight the sale of spirits with an alcohol content greater than 21 degrees from 6:00 p.m. in municipalities with an alert level 4 degree 1 -with a cumulative incidence rate of more than 500 cases of coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days but less than 1,000-, within the framework of the measures to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Report Europa Press. Mexico registered 1,323 new deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours, for a total of 172,557 fatalities, the Ministry of Health reported this Friday.
Also, 10,388 new infections were added for a total of 1,978,954 confirmed cases. With these figures, Mexico ranks thirteenth in the world in the number of infections and third with the most deaths from the pandemic, behind the United States and Brazil, according to the US Johns Hopkins University. Since the beginning of the pandemic in Mexico, 5,051,401 million patients have been studied, with a positivity of 34%, informed the director of Health PromotionThe United States reached 27,483,187 confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus this Friday and 480,567 deaths from the covid-19 disease, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University. This balance at 20.00 local time (01.00 GMT on Saturday is 5,527 more deaths than on Thursday and 99,548 new infections. The high number of deaths has its explanation in that Ohio has added about 4,000 accumulated cases. California is now the state hardest hit by the pandemic with 46,192 deaths, followed by New York (45,597), Texas (40,901), Florida (28,565) Pennsylvania (22,948), New Jersey (22,393), and Illinois (22,027). Panama added 23 new deaths from covid-19 and 910 cases this Friday, to reach a cumulative of 5,595 deaths and 330,985 confirmed infections in 11 months of the pandemic, reported the Ministry of Health (Minsa).
In the last 24 hours, 11,625 tests were administered that yielded a positivity of 7.8%, which represents a significant decrease in recent weeks highlighted the Minsa, which also noted the reduction in active cases, which total 18,756. the first case of contagion was detected, on March 9, 2020, the total number of tests carried out in Panama totaled 1,782,418. The American biotechnology company Moderna announced on Friday that it has asked the world’s health authorities for permission to increase the capacity of its vials of covid-19 vaccines by 50% and thus speed up ongoing immunization campaigns.
To optimize resources and opportunities to deliver more doses faster to each market, Moderna offered to fill its vials with up to 15 doses of vaccine, compared to the previous 10 the company said in a statement sent to AFP. The United States Drug Agency (FDA) has already approved the 40% increase in the contents of the bottles, according to The New York Times newspaper, which cited sources inside the case. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended this Friday to reopen schools in the country with mandatory use of masks and strict rules of social distancing between students and teachers.
The CDC guidance also underscores the need to adhere to high standards for facility cleanliness, personal hygiene, and contact tracing in the event of COVID-19 positives. This roadmap, according to the CDC, will pave the way for 55 million students in the nation’s public schools to return to class with maximum safety levels our goal is to get children back to school. School should be one of the last places to be closed and the first to pen,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told a news conference.
However, he recalled that the guide to reopen schools issued this Friday by the centers he directs is a recommendation, not an obligation. Enjoying five nights and six days in a hotel in Cuba is now more than ever within the reach of any pocket with only one downside: the guest cannot leave the room. The confinement packages are the answer to the collapse of tourism on the island due to the covid-19 pandemic. Some hotels in the Caribbean country are reluctant to remain empty: six establishments in Havana, one in Varadero and five more in other regions have welcomed clients of all nationalities who have taken advantage of one of the new offers since last weekend.
With a minimum price of 250 dollars and a maximum of about 600, the confinement package includes transportation and accommodation with full board in establishments between three and five stars, in addition to medical attention and the number of PCR tests necessary for the sixth day the client can be released if the covid-19 infection is ruled out.
