“If that was the case, we would be in a very different situation from the one we know today”, said the minister of Health.

there is no second wave of the pandemic Covid-19 in Spain, despite a new surge in infections in that country, said a senior official with the ministry of Health on Thursday. No less than 1229 new cases have been registered in the day, bringing their total number of infections to 285 430, according to ministry data.

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According to this count, an average of more than 1900 new cases per day were detected during the last seven days, a figure that has more than tripled in two weeks, which has prompted some regions to strengthen security measures. But if new outbreaks of the virus have been detected, the coordinator of the emergencies of the Health ministry, Fernando Simon, sees no sign of a second wave of the pandemic.

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“I don’t know if there will be a new wave in the future. It does not seem to me that this is the case. If this was the case, we would be in a very different situation from the one we currently know it”, he said during a press conference.

The tourism sector is largely affected

“there is no exact definition, here or elsewhere. What we could define as a second wave would be when we have a transmission community, with widespread and uncontrolled (…) At the present time, this is not the situation in Spain”, he added.

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The recent increase in the number of infections in Spain has prompted the United Kingdom to order the quarantine of all passengers arriving in this country, while other european States, including France and Germany, have advised against going in some Spanish regions.

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This affects heavily the key sector of tourism, which represents approximately 12% of the Spanish GDP. Spain has been one of the countries most affected by the pandemic Covid-19 and has recorded 28 443 dead at the date of Thursday.