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This is the rolling coronavirus story for Saturday 16 January 2021
The 18 municipalities in the province with the tightest restrictions
Google translation:
Almería is the province with the most municipalities pending to be confined
There are 18 municipalities in Almería that can be confined if the Government allows it
Juanma Moreno made it clear this Friday that Andalusia is going through its worst moments of the pandemic and decided, together with the Andalusian committee of experts, to take more restrictive measures throughout the autonomous community to contain the advance of a virus whose contagious capacity has multiplied since that the British strain was detected in Andalusia.
The announcement of the Andalusian president arrived loaded with restrictions to all the provinces, since they are closed on the perimeter from this very night and it is only possible to enter or leave them with just cause, but in up to 91 Andalusian municipalities the measures become even tougher and arrive accompanied by a word that reminds us of the months of March and April: confinement.
And it is that, as Moreno assured, he will ask the Government of Spain, led by Pedro Sánchez, to allow decreeing home confinement in the 91 Andalusian municipalities that currently have a contagion rate higher than 1,000 positives per 100,000 inhabitants and in which not only the perimeter closure has been decreed, as is the case in those that exceed the incidence rate of 500, but also the closure of all non-essential businesses and hotels has been established.
Here, Almería is the one with the worst stop in all of Andalusia as it has a total of 18 municipalities that are currently pending whether the Government of Spain allows their home confinement. For their part, there are five in Cádiz; 12 in Córdoba; 16 in Granada; there are five in Huelva; 14 in the province of Jaén; 14 in Malaga and 7 in Seville.
Almeria
Albox, Alhama de A., Antas, Arboleas, Carboneras, Cóbdar, Chirivel, Fiñana, Gádor, Los Gallardos, María, Mojácar, Oria, Partaloa, Sorbas, Taberno, Vélez-Blanco and Vélez-Rubio.
Cadiz
Castellar de la Frontera, La Línea de la Concepción, San José del V., San Roque and Trebujena.
Cordova
Añora, Belalcázar, Benamejí, Dos Torres, El Carpio, El Guijo, Fuente La Lancha, La Granjuela, Peñarroya-Puebl., Pozoblanco, Rute and Valsequillo.
Pomegranate
Alamedilla, Algarinejo, Beas de Granada, Benalúa de las V., Calicasas, Capileira, Cogollos de la V., Fornes, Huélago, Moclín, Montillana, Padul, Pórtugos, Sorvilán, Torre-Cardela and Ventas de Huelma.
Huelva
Castaño del R., Enfinasola, Isla Cristina, Villalba del Alcor and Villanueva de las C.
Jaen
Arroyo del O., Baeza, Baños de la E., Campillo del A., Castellar, Cazalilla, Guarromán, Hornos, Jódar, Los Villares, Navas de San Juan, Orcera, Torredelcampo and Villatorres.
Malaga
Alameda, Alfarnatejo, Algatocín, Alahurín El Grande, Almargen, Ardales, Benamocarra, Carajima, Coín, El Borge, Igualeja, Monda, Salares and Teba.
Seville
Algámitas, El Garrobo, El Palmar de Troya, Gilena, Las Cabezas de S.J., La Puebla de C. and Pruna.
Municipalities in the province that will have to close their boundaries tonight (35 in total)
Google translation:
The Board closes 35 municipalities in Almería that exceed the rate of 500 cases
Juanma Moreno has announced the perimeter closure of the towns on red alert
The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, announced today that tougher measures are coming to all the Andalusian provinces and even more restrictive to those municipalities that exceed the rate of 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, which will be closed perimeter during the next 15 days, from next Sunday, January 17.
After this announcement, as collected by the covid portal of the Junta de Andalucía in its last update this morning, there are a total of 35, 18 that are over 1,000 and 17 over 500, the municipalities in Almería those that exceed the rate of 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and where in addition to closing all hospitality establishments and shops at 6:00 p.m., as will happen throughout Andalusia during the next two weeks, its 'borders' will also be closed, since You can only enter or leave them with a cause included in the decree of the state of alarm as justified.
Adra, with 715.8
Laujar de Andarax, 846.4
Huecija, 625
Almeria capital, 574.2
Nijar, 714.2
Viator, 662
Benahadux, 775.9
Pechina, 966.1
Huércal de Almería, 526.9
Macael, 802.6
Olula del Rio, 547.5
Purposes, 721.5
Purchena, 679.9
Armuña del Almanzora, 662.3
Garrucha, 673
Vera, 838.8
Caves of Almanzora, 980
Chirivel, 3,467.7
Maria, 3,392
Gádor, with 2,390.4
Vélez Rubio, with 2,242, 6.
Fiñana, 1,955.9
Albox, 1,846.7
Partaloa, 1,801.8
Carboneras, 1,649.2
Alhama de Almería, 1,373.2
Antas, 1,382.8
Los Gallardos, 1,324.3
Velez-Blanco, 1,313.0
Tavern, 1,297.3
Sorbas, 1,256.3
Oria, 1,245.0
Cobdar, 1,169.6
Mojacar, 1,093.2
Arboleas, 1,000.9
More measures in Andalusia
And it is that today, the Andalusian Government has decided to close the perimeter of each of the eight provinces, so that there will be no mobility between them except for justifiable reasons, while it has also decided to reduce the number of people who will be able to meet, while all hospitality establishments and commercial businesses will have to close at 18.00.
This was announced by the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, in a public appearance, at 8:30 p.m., after the meeting of the committee of experts that advises his Government on the coronavirus pandemic. These new measures will be published tomorrow Saturday in the Official Gazette of the Junta de Andalucía (BOJA) and will come into force at midnight from Saturday to Sunday.
When will the tightening happen?
Google translation:
What day do the new restrictions come into force for Andalusia?
Before they have to be published in the BOJA
Just a week ago, after the celebration of the Christmas holidays, the Andalusian Government approved a series of measures that, initially, were to be in force until midnight from Sunday 24 to Monday 25 of this month, something that will not occur.
The rapid evolution of the coronavirus pandemic, the significant increase in the number of infections and growing hospital pressure have forced the Junta de Andalucía to modify these new measures that came into force this Monday, January 11
It was this Friday when the Advisory Committee for High Impact Public Health Alerts of Andalusia met again to analyze the current epidemiological situation and adopt new restrictions, these of a tougher nature as they had already announced that they would be responsible for the Government regional.
But when do these new measures take effect? They must first be published in the Official Gazette of the Board (BOJA) this Saturday and it will be at midnight from Saturday to Sunday when they become effective.
The Andalusian president already announced before the meeting of the so-called expert committee that, from now on, it will meet weekly to assess the "intense" evolution of the pandemic.
New restrictions
The measures approved this Friday by the Junta de Andalucía are the following:
-The perimeter closure of the autonomous community is maintained.
- Hospitality and commerce, open only until 6 pm in general.
- You can only leave or enter the eight Andalusian provinces for just cause.
- Perimeter closure of all municipalities with a 14-day cumulative incidence rate of more than 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. There are 219 municipalities that will be published in the BOJA.
- Closing of shops, hotels and leisure if the rate is higher than 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. There are 91 municipalities, and if the Government authorizes it, home confinement would be ordered.
- Meetings of up to four people among non-partners, including in bars and restaurants.
- Advance the curfew at 8:00 p.m. if authorized by the Government of Spain. If not, it will still be at 22 hours. And it will end at 6 in the morning.
Stats for the last 24 hours - 674 new cases and 1 more death
Google translation:
Absolute record of the coronavirus: 674 positives and another deceased
Hospitalized patients continue to rise and are now 172, of which 51 are in the ICU
The week in which the pandemic has broken all records of positives in the province is on its way to closing with figures that are increasingly higher than the previous day and today Almería sees the virus arrive again in a wave with 674 new positives and one more deceased in the last 24 hours.
This is collected by the part of the Ministry of Health and Families of the Junta de Andalucía this Saturday, January 16, the first after the measures announced by Juanma Moreno that will close 35 municipalities in the province, in which the province, after Surpassing a new record already adds 26,524 positives detected since March by PCR and antigen tests.
In the same way, with today's deceased, there are already 323 people from Almería who have lost their lives after being infected with coronavirus in a day in which hospitalized patients grow again, which this Saturday stood in Almería 172 admitted to the three hospitals, from those of which 51 are in Intensive Care given their severity, which places the province with the highest hospital pressure registered so far. And it is that in the last 24 hours, when 134 patients have recovered, another 18 covid patients in the province have needed to be admitted, two of them in the ICU.
Andalusia
For its part, Europa Press collects, Andalusia adds 6,297 cases of Covid-19 coronavirus this Saturday, January 16, the second consecutive day with more than 6,000 positives and the third highest number of the pandemic, according to data from the Ministry of Health and Families, which it counts 25 deaths, ten less than Friday and 36 less than seven days.
The 6,297 infections this day represent the third highest number of cases in 24 hours since the start of the pandemic, only surpassed by the 6,664 positives on Friday and the 6,882 registered on Wednesday of this week. On Thursday, there were 5,723 positives, on Tuesday 2,508 and on Monday 4,896.
Malaga leads the contagions again and adds for the fourth consecutive day more than a thousand, with 1,334, followed by Seville with 1,213, Cádiz with 835, Almería with 674, Granada with 669, Córdoba with 573, Jaén with 522 and Huelva with 477.
Regarding deaths, Cádiz is with ten the most registered, followed by Malaga with seven, Jaén with three, Seville with two, Almería, Córdoba and Huelva with one. In Granada no person has died on this day.
This is the rolling coronavirus story for Friday 15 January 2021
Stats for the last 24 hours - 601 more cases and 1 more death
Google translation:
The contagions unstoppable: more than 600 cases in the last 24 hours
Almería adds a new death
Contagions in the province are skyrocketing in what is being the worst week of the pandemic for Almería. Andalusia as a whole is not better and this Friday it registers 6,664 cases of coronavirus, the second highest number of the pandemic, and 43 deaths, one of them in Almeria.
Figures that arrive within hours of knowing the new restrictions that will be applied in Andalusia given the high number of infections registered in recent days. The president of the Board, Juanma Moreno, will announce them this afternoon after the meeting of the so-called committee of experts.
Data from the Andalusian Institute of Statistics and Cartography (IECA) this Friday reveal that the province adds 601 new infections in the last 24 hours.
It is the second worst figure that the province has registered since the beginning of the pandemic, after the 655 cases of this Monday, January 12.
By provinces, Malaga leads the contagions again and adds more than a thousand for the third consecutive day, with 1,339, followed by Cádiz with 1,235 and Seville with 1,216. Below a thousand positives are Granada with 649, Almería with 601, Jaén with 498 and Huelva with 496.
The community increases its incidence rate of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days to 463.9.
Deaths
Regarding deaths, Granada is the one that registers the most with 17, followed by Cádiz and Malaga with eight, Jaén with four, Córdoba with three, Seville with two and Almería with one. In Huelva no person has died on this day.
The situation in Almeria hospitals continues to be complicated. This Friday a new record is reached: 165 hospitalized of which 44 are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
In Andalusia, patients admitted to hospitals for Covid-19 add up to their thirteenth consecutive day of rise to 1,916, 125 more than the day before.
Cumulative stats from the Almería 360 site
This is the rolling coronavirus story for Thursday 14 January 2021
Stats for the last 24 hours - 582 more cases and 4 more deaths
Google translation:
Alarming data: the situation is critical with 582 cases and four new deaths
The record for hospitalizations is broken again with 155 admissions
The situation in the province remains critical. The data for this Thursday exceed the positives recorded the day before and again we must regret four new deaths in the last 24 hours.
If this Wednesday the daily report, prepared by the Ministry of Health of the Junta de Andalucía, left us 552 cases, this day the data worsens: the new infections rise to 582 new positives.
It is the second worst figure that the province has registered since the beginning of the pandemic, after the 655 cases of this Monday, January 12.
With these data, Almería exceeds 25,000 people infected with Covid-19 since last March.
In addition, the province adds four new deaths in the last 24 hours. These have occurred in the capital and in the municipalities of Alhama de Almería, Berja and Roquetas de Mar. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 321 people with coronavirus have already lost their lives.
The situation in Almeria hospitals continues to worry a lot. The data for this Thursday leave a new record: 155 hospitalizations. Of these, 37 are in the Intensive Care Unit. In these last hours there have been 17 new admissions, one of them in the ICU.
The only positive thing about this day are the 94 people who join the list of recovered people and there are now a total of 19,206 recovered.
Board Notices
Figures that show the bad times the province is currently going through and the bad omens of the Junta de Andalucía, which warns that the third wave will be the "hardest, most difficult and complex of those experienced so far."
For this reason, the regional government makes multiple appeals to citizens to appeal to social responsibility, they ask for self-confinement, to stay at home and not meet with friends or family.
Cumulative stats from the Almería 360 site
Stay at home?
Google translation:
Moreno's message: ask to stay home and not meet with friends or family
He affirms that the third wave will be the "hardest, most difficult and complex of those lived until now"
The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, has appealed this Thursday to the "responsibility" of citizens before the "explosive" advance of the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the community and has asked the Andalusians "to stay in home to the best of their ability "and try" not to multiply unnecessary social gatherings "or to move encounters with friends or family members who are not living together to their homes.
Moreno has launched this message in the Sevillian town of Mairena del Alcor during his speech at the inauguration of the Center for High Resolution of Specialties (CARE) Los Alcores on the eve of the meeting of the committee of experts that will agree on the tightening of restrictions in Andalusia before the evolution of the third wave of the pandemic, which has anticipated that it will be the "hardest, most difficult and complex of those experienced so far".
Faced with this scenario, the head of the Andalusian Executive has addressed the citizens directly to ask for "responsibility and head in each of our behaviors", for which he has suggested "staying at home as far as possible" and "trying not to multiply unnecessary social gatherings. "
In this sense, Moreno has warned about the need not to turn houses into "mini-restaurants" where to meet friends or relatives who do not live together and has warned that neither the Board nor any administration can "be in the houses or at clandestine parties."
This is the rolling coronavirus story for Wednesday 13 January 2021
A meeting on Friday 15 January to tighten restrictions in Andalucía
Google translation:
New restrictions: Andalusia will once again tighten the measures this Friday
The Board will change the measures that came into effect this Monday due to the increase in cases
This Monday, the measures approved by the Junta de Andalucía on Friday, January 8, came into force in the Andalusian community. After the celebration of Christmas it was time to review them and, although the increase in infections and the statements made by political representatives presaged a strong hardening of them, this did not happen.
A few days later, the regional administration is already thinking of changing these restrictions and making them tougher given the increase in cases that Andalusia has experienced in recent days. Moreover, the day after Juanma Moreno, president of the Board, announced the measures currently in force, government representatives already warned that restrictions would have to be tightened to combat the third wave of the coronavirus that Andalusia is already going through.
It will be this Friday 15 when the committee of experts that advises the Andalusian Government on the pandemic will meet again to "tighten" the current restrictions in the face of the "worrying" increase in infections and hospital admissions that is taking place in recent days community.
This was announced this Wednesday, in statements to Canal Sur Radio, the Minister of Health and Families, Jesús Aguirre, who has revealed the exponential increase in the accumulated incidence per 100,000 inhabitants, which yesterday stood at 314 cases . The regional representative has also emphasized the significant increase that is taking place in hospital admissions.
Aguirre has affirmed that it will be this Friday when the Advisory Committee of High Impact Public Health Alerts of Andalusia meets to decide "more restrictive measures" than those adopted last week, which will affect, in all probability, "mobility ".
Current measures
From this Monday the 11th, Andalusia is once again closed perimeter and you can only enter and leave the community for justified reasons. Last week it was decided to maintain, "for the moment", mobility between provinces and municipalities, as the president of the Board advised.
The curfew was set between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., anticipating its start by one hour since during the Christmas period it was extended until 11 p.m.
In addition, the hospitality business was set to close again at 6:00 p.m., while the retail sector can close at 8:00 p.m. The cafeterias may be open until 8:00 p.m., provided that alcoholic beverages are not served.
On the other hand, it was agreed to resume the school year normally after the Christmas break.
Measures that, at first, would be in force until midnight from Sunday 24 to Monday 25 of this month, something that seems not to happen.
As of this Monday, in Andalusia there are eleven health districts at alert level four, in the provinces of Jaén, Granada, Córdoba, Almería and Cádiz, while the rest of Andalusia remains at alert level 3 and 2.
Stats for the last 24 hours - 552 new cases and 3 more deaths
Google translation:
The pandemic worsens in Almería: more than 550 cases and three deaths
Almería exceeds 25,000 infections and 315 deaths
The coronavirus pandemic soars in the province after the celebration of Christmas. Two days after the Junta de Andalucía announces more restrictive measures given the significant increase in cases in the community, Almería surpasses 552 cases this Wednesday. To this must be added three new deaths.
Bad news and figures that are also extrapolated to the rest of Andalusia. And it is that the Andalusian region has registered in the last 24 hours almost 7,000 new infections, a figure much higher than the 2,508 infections this Tuesday. In addition, 35 deaths are counted.
This Wednesday, according to data consulted in the Andalusian Institute of Cartography and Statistics (IECA), a total of 552 positives were registered in the province. The second highest figure since the start of the pandemic, after 655 cases this Monday. The data this eve was better regarding new infections, although the figure was also high, with 252 positives.
With these data, Almería exceeds 25,000 people infected with Covid-19 since last March.
By provinces, Malaga again leads this day in infections with 1,417, followed by Seville with 1,354 and Cádiz with 1,270. Below one thousand are the rest of the provinces with: 606 in Jaén, 603 in Granada, 583 in Córdoba, 552 in Almería and 497 in Huelva.
The community increases its incidence rate of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days to 360.2.
Deaths
The figures for this Wednesday are more than bad and, again, we must regret deaths in the province. In the last 24 hours, Almería adds three new deaths. Since the start of the pandemic, 317 people with coronavirus have lost their lives.
Cádiz is with seven the Andalusian province that registers the most deaths this Thursday, followed by Jaén with six, Seville with five, Córdoba and Granada with four each, Almería, Málaga and Huelva with three.
Patients admitted to Andalusian hospitals for Covid-19 add up to their eleventh consecutive day of rise with 1,697, 162 more than the day before and 625 more than a week ago, of which 284 are in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 15 more than Tuesday and 83 more than seven days ago.
The daily part of the Junta de Andalucía will give more information on the current situation of hospitals in Almería.
Cumulative stats from the Almería 360 site
Functional diagram of the föehn effect on the southern façade of the Iberian Peninsula.
The article here on the La Voz de Almería site is the fourth in the series.
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This is the rolling coronavirus story for Tuesday 12 January 2021
Cumulative stats from the Almería 360 site
Stats for the last 24 hours - 249 new cases and 4 more deaths
Google translation:
COVID-19 claims another four lives despite the slowdown in the wave of infections with 249 positives
5,111 active cases and the highest cumulative incidence rate in Andalusia (438 infections per 100,000 inhabitants). "One out of every three patients admitted to the ICU does not come out alive", assures the delegate of the Board, Maribel Sánchez and calls for responsibility
The spread of the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc among the people of Almería and the daily report of the Ministry of Health and Families this Tuesday includes four new deaths of patients who presented complications from the COVID-19 infection. The death statistics since the beginning of the pandemic add up to 314 victims, a dozen in the last week, a worrying rebound that confirms the greater hospital pressure of the January slope of the coronavirus in the province. The third wave is here and it is palpable not only in the number of positives, but in the hospitals where admissions are multiplying and preparing for the worst scenario. Today there are 137 people, six more than there were yesterday Monday.
In the Intensive Care Unit, 41 people from Almería remain, four more than yesterday, a figure that has not stopped growing and is dangerously close to the maximum record of 47 on November 26. After yesterday's meeting of the COVID19 monitoring cabinet by the Almería health authorities, it was specified that one out of every three patients admitted to the ICU due to coronavirus ends up dying. "COVID can kill any family member of ours, let's not make the wound in these provinces bigger, in which more than 300 people have already lost their lives," argued the delegate of the Government of the Junta in Almería, Maribel Sánchez Torregrosa, in a Appeal to the responsibility of Almeria.
The report just sent by the Ministry of Health and Families reports 249 new cases in the municipalities of the province, a figure that, while still high, constitutes a brake on the curve that this Monday reached the record with 655 infections. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the virus has infected 24,522 people including the 249 new cases detected in the last hours through Active Infection Diagnostic Tests (PDIA), confirmed by PCR technique or rapid antigen tests, of which 2,123 have been reported in the last seven days and 3,162 in a two-week period.
The census of people from Almería who have left COVID-19 behind also grows with the 17 cured today to a total of 19,097. Currently there are 5,111 active cases under monitoring and treatment by the health authorities in the province and the incidence rate has not stopped growing in recent days and has already reached 3,216 infections per 100,000 inhabitants.
This is the rolling coronavirus story for Monday 11 January 2021
Stats for the last 24 hours - 655 more cases and 3 more deaths
Google translation:
The coronavirus overflows in Almería: 655 positives in one day and 3 deaths
Maribel Sánchez, delegate of the Board: "We have more viruses than ever in our streets"
Only two days after registering the historical maximum of coronavirus positives since the beginning of the pandemic -359 cases notified last Saturday, January 9-, the province of Almería has surpassed that sad mark. And it has more than done so: this Monday, according to the Andalusian Institute of Cartography and Statistics (IECA), there are 655 positives notified through PDIA (antigen test and PCR).
A day, in which the new restrictions of the Board come into force - and that may not be the last - that also leaves 3 more deaths, 11 hospitalizations and only 61 people have received epidemiological discharge.
After these data, as of Monday, January 11, the cases of coronavirus that are still active in the Almeria geography soar to 4,880: the difference between the 24,270 confirmed cases and the sum of deaths (310 to date) and recovered (19,080 ). Last Friday, January 8, there were 3,809 active cases, and it reached 2,691 on December 30.
Before the publication of the data, Maribel Sánchez, Government delegate of the Board, has advanced the figure. He has done so in statements to journalists after a meeting in the delegation of Health and Families with the delegate of Health, Juan de la Cruz Belmonte, the secretary general of the Delegation of Health, Pedro López, and the head of Public Health, Antonio Garrido, among other managers and heads of the Delegation Service.
"We have more viruses than ever in the streets of our province. We can only help stop the virus, help our health professionals, being more responsible than ever," said Sánchez, who has appealed to the "individual responsibility" of Almeria to face what, he says, will be "the worst wave since March 12".
"This Christmas many people have done well but other behaviors have left much to be desired. We have to show that we are going to measure up, because we are going to suffer the worst wave of all. Many lives are at stake, let's not screw up, Let's not spoil it anymore, "he stressed.
In Andalucia
In the rest of the community, the situation is not much more encouraging: the week begins with 4,896 cases of coronavirus, the highest number since November 7, when 4,993 were added.
By provinces, Malaga leads the infections with 1,035, followed by Cádiz with 952 and Seville with 698. Almería is the fourth province with the most cases, the aforementioned 655, followed by Granada with 647, Córdoba with 433, Jaén with 318 and Huelva with 158 .
Cumulative stats from the Almería 360 site
