The most affected regions are Catalonia (north-east) and the Aragon neighbor, the latter being the most worrying, with the highest rate of cases in the country.
The health authorities in spain have recognized this Monday that they were unable to control “perfectly” the contagion of the new coronavirus, while Spain recorded in two weeks, the highest increase of cases detected among the large countries of western Europe.
The number of dead has increased significantly, with 65 deaths recorded in the course of the last seven days, of which more than half in Aragon, a region in the north-east of the country, according to the balance sheet of the ministry of health published on Monday.
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Spain has a communal transmission (that is to say that we can’t go back to the origin of the case) “that is not perfectly controlled but that fades progressively”, has valued this Monday the epidemiologist-in-chief of the Health ministry, Fernando Simon.
The number of holders of the new coronavirus diagnosed has increased by nearly 60% during the last seven days in the country, according to a calculation by AFP from official data.
the Country most hit in Europe
The average is higher at 90 per 100 000 inhabitants in the past two weeks, while the figure is 27 in France, 17 in the United Kingdom, 13 in Germany and 7 in Italy, the country of Europe where the pandemic was first declared.
The most affected regions are Catalonia (north-east) and the Aragon neighbor, this last region being the most worrying, with the highest rate of cases in the country, which was 240 per 100 000 inhabitants.
However, Catalonia “is already in a phase of control” while the number of cases in Aragon “stabilizes in a great part of the territory,” assured Dr. Simon.
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These upsurges of contagion have led these two regions to order sub-partials. Catalonia has launched a campaign of intense testing in some of the most affected areas. The Aragon, to him, is preparing to send the police check if the people controlled positive compliance with the quarantine imposed.
Spain had lived containment is strict from mid-march to 21 June, but the government dismisses the possibility of re-establish this state of exception. The country remains one of the most hit by the pandemic in Europe with a total of 322 980 cases and 28 576 deaths on Monday.
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