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This is the rolling coronavirus story for Wednesday 25 November 2020

Not good news - Poniente Hospital begins to use operating rooms for patients with Covid-19

https://elejido.ideal.es/elejido/hospital-poniente-comienza-20201124165721-nt.html

Google translation:

The Poniente Hospital begins to use operating rooms for patients with Covid-19

The hospital center is going through the busiest moment in ICU since the pandemic began

The ICU of the Hospital de Poniente is almost 100% occupied, an operating room has been set up where there are two patients and another in which there is one, but even a third operating room could be put into use, as stated in the Hospital Contingency Plan and "in some cases it has been necessary to refer a patient both due to inability to be able to attend him safely to Torrecárdenas, while there are 30 patients in the ward, with the possibility that some may need to go to the ICU", said Acosta, who described the situation as “Controlled, highly monitored but tense. We are possibly at the time of most ICU occupation since the pandemic began ».

Along these lines, Acosta asked for responsibility and stressed that no patient has been transferred from any Granada Hospital to the Patient. "All the patients admitted are patients from the area, there are no transfers," he said.

Looks like there is a similar situation in all hospitals in the province

https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/3/provincia/204747/situacion-critica-en-los-hospitales-record-de-ingresos-y-mas-enfermos-en-uci

Google translation:

Critical situation in hospitals: record number of admissions and more patients in ICU

The government delegate makes a new appeal: "We have to be more prudent than ever"

Bad news this Wednesday about the evolution of the pandemic in the province and its consequences. And it is that Almería has once again surpassed a new record in the last hours: that of hospitalizations.

The delegate of the Government of the Junta de Andalucía, Maribel Sánchez, in the event organized on the occasion of the International Day against Gender Violence that is celebrated this November 25, has affirmed that at present there are 143 people from Almeria admitted to the health areas of the entire province, of which 102 people are in the plant and 41 in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

"They are the worst hospitalization figures since last March 12, from which time we have been fighting Covid-19 in Almería," the representative of the Autonomous Administration highlighted.

Maribel Sánchez has acknowledged that the daily positives have dropped and that the data in health districts such as Levante-Almanzora and Almería have improved, but has stated that this improvement must be transferred to hospitals in the province, in the form of less income.

The Government delegate has been convinced that the measures adopted by the Junta de Andalucía (which since Tuesday have become even more tougher in the province by passing all of this to alert level four) will be effective, as this is showing decrease in the number of cases. "They have to spend a few days so that the restrictions are also reflected in the hospitals," he pointed out.

"Today, we have to make an appeal to Almeria society to help administrations. For many measures and restrictions that are put, it is necessary to be more prudent than ever because the virus we have to stop it together," said the Delegate of the Government of the Junta de Andalucía in Almería.

Stats for the last 24 hours - 172 more cases and 3 more deaths

https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/3/provincia/204764/tres-muertes-mas-en-almeria-en-una-jornada-en-la-que-los-contagios-crecen

Google translation:

Three more deaths in Almería in a day in which infections are growing

The situation in hospitals is critical: record of hospitalized

Andalusia adds this Wednesday, November 25, a total of 1,205 cases of coronavirus confirmed by PCR and antigen tests, the lowest figure since October 4. Data that confirms that the curve flattens and the number of positives in the community decreases.

The delegate of the Government of the Junta de Andalucía in Almería, Maribel Sánchez, assured this Wednesday that the province has also experienced a decrease in the number of cases. Despite this, in the last 24 hours Almería has registered 64 more infections, a more or less expected situation after the passage of the so-called 'weekend effect' (when fewer diagnostic tests are normally done). In total, the province adds 172 positives, in a day in which Almería has to mourn new deaths: three more in the last 24 hours.

On this day, the province of Malaga leads the increase in infections with 264 followed by Cádiz with 205; Seville with 192; Almería with 172; Huelva with 133; and Jaén with 118. Below the hundred daily positives are Córdoba with 68 and Granada with 53.

The 1,205 cases diagnosed this Wednesday throughout Andalusia constitute the best daily data in 52 days and are 1,616 less than the 2,821 positives registered last Wednesday.

Deaths

Andalusia has added 64 deaths this day after 94 this Tuesday. Malaga also clearly leads the daily number of deaths from Covid-19 with 20, followed by Granada with twelve and Seville with eleven. Below the ten are Córdoba with nine, Jaén with five, Cádiz and Almería with three and Huelva with one.

The province adds, in total, 205 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, last March.

Regarding the situation of the Almeria hospitals, the Government delegate already advanced this morning: a new record of hospitalizations in the province. At present there are 143 people from Almería admitted to health areas throughout the province, of which 102 people are on the ward and 41 are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

"They are the worst hospitalization figures since last March 12, from which time we are fighting against Covid-19 in Almería", highlighted the representative of the autonomous administration.

 Cumulative stats from data lifted from the Almería 360 site

I am unhappy to report the official news that winter has arrived in Almerimar. I have put a jumper on today. Plus we put our winter duvet on the bed last night.

Just checked and it is only 21.3 degrees on our terrace not long before noon.

This is the rolling coronavirus story for Tuesday 24 November 2020

Stats for the last 24 hours - 110 more cases and 3 more deaths

https://www.diariodealmeria.es/almeria/Almeria-contagios-Roquetas-Abrucena_0_1522647985.html

Google translation:

Almería maintains a low number of infections (110) but adds three deaths in Roquetas and Abrucena

The Board has reported that the data is being reviewed for errors in the Public Health Surveillance System

247 cured have been reported, so 68% of those infected have already passed the coronavirus

This Tuesday, for the second day in a row, the province of Almería registers a low number of new infections. The Ministry of Health has notified only 110 positives, of which 108 have been diagnosed by PCR tests and antigen tests. Only 75 cases were registered on Monday.

However, the bells cannot be thrown on the fly yet. These low data coincide with the technical problems that are occurring in the Public Health Surveillance System. As reported by the Junta de Andalucía on the website of the Institute of Statistics and Cartography, "due to a technical problem in the import of laboratory results, the data of confirmed cases of COVID-19 that are shown today may be incomplete. As of September, a new procedure for reporting COVID-19 cases has been incorporated into the Surveillance System based on the automatic importation of laboratory results. After an exhaustive analysis of the data, the series, which will be presented consolidated as of tomorrow, November 24 ". We have to wait for the report tomorrow Wednesday to see how this data adjustment is.

Until the data are consolidated, the result of this Tuesday leaves Almería as the second Andalusian province with fewer new cases. In total, in Andalusia 2,228 positives have been reported today: Almería 110, Cádiz 751, Córdoba 112, Granada 152, Huelva 79, Jaén 191, Málaga 267 and Sevilla 566.

By areas, the Almería District is once again the most affected by the pandemic, with 84 new infections. Only 18 have been diagnosed in the Northern District and even fewer in the Western District, with only 12 positives.
Three deceased in Roquetas de Mar and Abrucena

Despite the fact that infections have decreased in recent days, what does not stop are the deaths of people infected by COVID-19. Almería has already exceeded two hundred deaths. This Tuesday three new deaths have been reported: two in Roquetas de Mar and one in Abrucena, thus adding its first victim due to the pandemic.

In total, 202 people from Almeria have already died with COVID-19 since March. The virus has a lethality of 1.17%, that is, one in every 100 infected people in the province is dying.

The data review has caused Andalusia today to be a black day in terms of deaths. 94 deaths have been reported: Almería 3, Cádiz 10, Córdoba 5, Granada 15, Huelva 1, Jaén 19, Málaga 13 and Sevilla 28.
The number of active cases continues to decline

On the other hand, after Monday's cured surge (445), this Tuesday there is still good news in this regard. Health has registered 247 new registrations in the province. That is, 11,801 people have already overcome the coronavirus.

In this way, the number of active cases or people who are infected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus decreases. Currently in Almería there are 5,245 active cases, so it is still the Andalusian province with the least, after Huelva, which accumulates 5,570.

However, there is a worrying fact in the report this Tuesday: 17 new admissions have been recorded in the hospitals of the province, six of them in the ICU. However, it is not yet known if they are old cases that had not been accounted for due to errors in the system or if they are income from the last day. It will be known when the Junta de Andalucía sends the communication with the current occupation of the hospitals.

Yesterday, Monday, the record for critically ill patients was broken again, with 39 people in ICUs. In total there were 127 hospitalized in the province.
Accumulated data in the pandemic

Since the first case of coronavirus was detected, 17,248 have already been diagnosed if those diagnosed with serological tests are added, 16,882 if only the PCR and antigen tests are taken into account.

Of all these confirmed cases, 11,801 people have already been cured. That is, 68.42% of the infected people have already overcome the infection.

On the other hand, 1,145 people have needed hospital admission since February due to SARS-CoV-2, which means that 6.64% of diagnosed cases have ended up in hospital. Of them, 159 have developed a more serious symptomatology that has made them enter the Intensive Care Unit. Thus, 13.89% of those hospitalized for COVID have ended up in the ICU. This is still the highest percentage in all of Andalusia, where the average is 8.80%.

In the province of Almería, 202 people infected by the coronavirus have died. The death rate of the virus is the second lowest in Andalusia, after Huelva. 28.18 people out of every 100,000 inhabitants have died. The Andalusian rate is 44.54 deaths.

Cumulative stats from Almería 360 - click on the image to see a much bigger version

This is the rolling coronavirus story for Monday 23 November 2020

Various medical districts in the province increase their level from tomorrow - including us in the Poniente medical region

https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/3/provincia/204596/alerta-roja-en-almeria-56-municipios-pasan-al-nivel-maximo

Google translation:

Red alert in Almería: 56 municipalities go to the maximum level

The health districts of Poniente and Levante-Almanzora increase their level of risk

The Junta de Andalucía will implement next Tuesday, November 24, the alert level 4 grade 1 as a consequence of the critical epidemiological situation derived from Covid-19 in a total of 103 municipalities in the provinces of Almería, Málaga, Córdoba and Cádiz that are currently They are at alert level 3 grade 1.

This was agreed this Sunday by the Advisory Committee on High Impact Public Health Alerts to analyze the evolution of the pandemic in a meeting chaired by the President of the Board, Juanma Moreno, in which it has been decided to extend until December 10 the general restrictions in force in Andalusia and only make the hours of bars and restaurants more flexible from next Tuesday the 24th to allow their opening until 9:30 p.m. exclusively for picking up orders and the opening of toy stores until 8:00 p.m.

Specifically, the Board will raise from next Tuesday and an initial period of 14 days the alert level 3 grade 1 to alert level 4 grade 1 to the Levante-Almanzora and Poniente de Almería health districts, Campo de Gibraltar in Cádiz, Area Sanitaria Norte de Córdoba and Valle del Guadalhorce in Málaga.

In Almeria

In the case of Almería, the 41 municipalities of the Levante-Almanzora district will pass to alert level 4 (Albanchez, Albox, Alcóntar, Antas, Arboleas, Armuña de Almanzora, Bacares, Bayarque, Bédar, Cantoria, Chercos, Chirivel, Cobdar, Cuevas del Almanzora, Fines, Los Gallardos, Garrucha, Huércal Overa, Laroya, Líjar, Lúcar, Macael, María, Mojácar, Olula del Río, Oria, Partaloa, Pulpí, Purchena, Serón, Sierro, Somontín, Suflí, Taberno, Tíjola, Turre , Urrácal, Vélez Blanco, Vélez Rubio, Vera and Zurgena) and the 15 of the Poniente district of Almería (Adra, Alcolea, Balanegra, Bayárcal, Berja, Dalías, El Ejido, Énix, Félix, Fondón, Láujar de Andarax, La Mojonera, Paterna del Río, Roquetas de Mar and Vícar).

For its part, in the province of Córdoba, the 25 municipalities of the North Sanitary Area will do so: Alcaracejos, Á Señora, Belalcázar, Bélmez, Cardeña, Conquista, Dos Torres, El Guijo, El Viso, Espiel, Fuente la Lancha, Fuente Obejuna, Hinojosa del Duque, La Granjuela, Los Blázquez, Pedroche, Peñarroya Pueblo Nuevo, Pozoblanco, Santa Eufemia, Torrecampo, Valsequillo, Villanueva de Córdoba, Villanueva del Duque, Villanueva del Rey and Villaralto.

Other provinces

In the case of Malaga, alert level 4 will come into effect on Tuesday in the 14 municipalities of the Guadalhorce health district (Alhaurín de la Torre, Alhaurín el Grande, Álora, Alozaina, Ardales, Carratraca, Cártama, Casarabonela, Coín, Guaro, Monda, Pizarra, Tolox and Yunquera) and in the province of Cádiz in the eight municipalities of the Campo de Gibraltar health district (Algeciras, Los Barrios, Castellar de la Frontera, Jimena de la Frontera, La Línea de la Concepción, San Martín del Tesorillo , San Roque and Tarifa).

On the contrary, the Advisory Committee for High Impact Public Health Alerts has decided to lower the alert level from next Tuesday, which goes from 4 to 3, in the 28 municipalities of the Axarquía health district (Alcaucín, Alfarnate, Alfarnatejo , Algarrobo, Almáchar, Árchez, Arenas, Benamargosa, Benamocarra, El Borge, Canillas de Aceituno, Canillas de Albaida, Casabermeja, Colmenar, Comares, Cómpeta, Cútar, Frigiliana, Iznate, Nerja, Periana, Riogordo, Salares, Sayalonga, Sedella, Torrox, Vélez-Málaga and Viñuela). Level 3 will also be followed by the six municipalities of the Málaga health district (Almogía, Málaga, Macharaviaya, Moclinejo, Rincón de la Victoria and Totalán).

Restrictions and capacity

Restrictive measures for level 4 include the limitation to a maximum of six people indoors and 15 outdoors for those attending wakes and funerals, as well as the reduction to 30% of capacity in civil and religious ceremonies, while banquets only They will be able to gather 30 people indoors and 50 outdoors, with a maximum capacity of 30%.

Likewise, for the commercial establishments of municipalities in level 4, a maximum capacity of 50% with a safety distance is established, while for public transport the obligation to leave a seat of separation between travelers and a limitation to 50% of the standing squares. With regard to private transport, only two people are allowed per row of seats, without occupying the passenger seat.

On the other hand, in the municipalities at level 4, the hotel and restaurant establishments will have a maximum capacity of 30% indoors and 75% on terraces; gyms 40%, and sports competitions, events and training will be held without spectators.

For cinemas, theaters and auditoriums of the municipalities that are going to be closed on the perimeter, a maximum capacity of 40% has been set, with up to 200 people indoors and 300 outdoors.

Environmental activities in level 4 areas may bring together up to six people indoors and ten outdoors, and parks may be open in general, although children's games will have to be closed, and activities in them may only be concentrated to a maximum of six people.

Level 3

For municipalities in level 3 districts, the Junta de Andalucía proposes that wakes and burials gather a maximum of ten people indoors and 20 outdoors, as well as limiting the maximum capacity of civil and religious ceremonies and banquets to 50% , where up to 50 people are allowed indoors and 75 outdoors.

Commercial establishments in these areas may fill up to 60% of capacity with a safety distance; The same percentage as for cinemas, theaters and auditoriums, facilities that can hold a maximum of 300 people indoors and 500 outdoors.

Congresses and fairs can also fill up to 60% of their capacity on Level 3, with a maximum of 300 people indoors and 500 outdoors. Likewise, the capacity in hotels and restaurants is limited to 50% indoors, while 100% is allowed on terraces.

For sports facilities the capacity is also limited to 50% on Level 3, with a maximum of 200 people indoors and 400 outdoors.

Regarding transport, it is allowed to occupy 100% of the seats in public transport, and 75% of the standing places. Environmental activities may be practiced in groups of up to ten people indoors and 15 outdoors, and parks and gardens may be open, with activities for a maximum of ten people.

English language article about the vaccination strategy for next year in Sspain

https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-11-23/spanish-pm-announces-unique-vaccination-strategy-via-the-countrys-primary-healthcare-system.html

Stats for the last 24 hours - 75 more cases and 1 more death

https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/3/provincia/204642/record-en-la-uci-almeriense-39-personas-con-covid-necesitan-cuidados-intensivos

Google translation:

Record in the Almeria ICU: 39 people with Covid need Intensive Care

Record also of people recovered: 445 in the last hours

The coronavirus deals a new blow to the province and, once again, it reaches a record. This is related this time to people with Covid hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit: a total of 39 are in the ICU, four more in the last 24 hours.

The number of hospitalized also grows with respect to the data for this Sunday, going from 121 to the current 127, according to data from the Ministry of Health of the Junta de Andalucía.

But there is also good news in this Monday's data: 445 more people are suddenly added to the list of recovered people, which already rises to a total of 11,554.

The data from this beginning of the week, regarding new infections, are also positive, although it must be taken into account that normally fewer cases are reported on weekends.

The province adds in the last 24 hours a total of 75 confirmed positives through the so-called Active Infection Diagnostic Tests (PCR and antigen test). For many days this figure did not drop below a hundred infections.

Andalusia adds 1,455 cases of coronavirus this Monday. On this day, the province of Seville leads the increase in positives with 416 followed by Cádiz and Granada, with 342 each; Malaga with 106; and Jaén with 101. Below the hundred daily positives are Almería with 75, Huelva with 55 and Córdoba with 18.

Deaths

Despite these latest data, Almería has to mourn another death. There are already 198 people with coronavirus who have lost their lives since the start of the pandemic.

Seville also clearly leads the daily number of deaths from Covid-19 with 14, followed by Granada with nine, Córdoba with six and Jaén with five. Cádiz, Almería and Huelva register one death each, while Malaga does not add any on this day.

Cumulative stats from data on the Almería 360 site (the image is slightly bigger today if you click on it)

This is the rolling coronavirus story for Sunday 22 November 2020

What happens from next week until 10 December

https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/12/almeria/204555/andalucia-mantiene-el-cierre-de-municipios-y-los-horarios-hasta-diciembre

Google translation:

Andalusia maintains the closure of municipalities and schedules until December

The president of Andalusia announces that the situation is complicated but lowers some measures

Andalusia fears the unstoppable advance of the coronavirus and today it has once again reaffirmed its restrictions in all the provinces for the next few days, specifically, until December 10, as announced today by the president of the autonomous community, Juanma Moreno.

Since at the beginning of November the president of the Board, Juanma Moreno, announced the new restrictive measures to contain the advance of the pandemic in the autonomous community, what would be the next step has been one of the issues around which There has been more uncertainty and, this Sunday, the Andalusian president has confirmed the worst forecasts: the measures in force until December 10 are maintained.

After the meeting with the Committee of Experts, which began at 12:30 p.m. and has lasted for more than an hour and a half, Juanma Moreno has appeared at a press conference to detail the new measures agreed and on which, previously , said: "We listen to the experts. The situation continues to be complicated and the decision we adopt today has a fundamental mission: to save lives and save all possible businesses and jobs."

And so it will be during the next few days, since, as Moreno has pointed out, who has said that you have to choose "between what is right and what is easy", the perimeter closure of each and every one of the Andalusian municipalities is maintained until next December 10, as well as the time of the curfew from 10:00 p.m. to 07:00 a.m. On the other hand, as indicated, the hours are made more flexible for hotel establishments, which may be open until 9:30 p.m. for the collection of orders. Likewise, shops dedicated to the sale of toys may be open until 8:00 p.m.

"We are facing very difficult times, I call on you to increase our responsibility in the coming weeks," concluded Moreno, who assured: "We are working hard so that there is a Christmas that allows us to get together with our loved ones and recover economic activity."

Stats for the last 24 hours - 193 more cases and 1 more death

https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/12/almeria/204580/bajan-a-193-los-positivos-pero-almeria-roza-las-200-muertes-y-suma-12-ingresos

Google translation:

The positives drop to 193, but Almería touches 200 deaths and adds 12 admissions

Hospital pressure drops and 126 more patients recovered this Sunday

The day on which the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, will announce the new measures that will be in force in the eight Andalusian provinces over the next few weeks has been presented with hopeful news for Almería, which today has seen a pronounced decrease in the number of positives detected in 24 hours by adding 'only' 193 compared to more than 300 reported the day before.

The drop in the number of positives that has occurred this Sunday, which leaves 16,699 those infected by coronavirus who have been diagnosed by PCR or antigen tests in Almería, is accompanied by the epidemiological part of the Board of Health and Families Council for a new patient with covid-19 who died in the province, which brings to 198 people from Almeria who have died since March.

An improvement in hospital pressure is also reported in the three Almeria centers, Torrecárdenas, Poniente and La Inmaculada, where after three consecutive days, there has been a decrease in admissions today and 121 patients remain hospitalized, two less than in the day before, despite the fact that in the last 24 hours there have been 12 people from Almería who have required hospitalization. As for the ICUs, today there are 35 patients in serious condition, one less than the day before.

In the rest of Andalusia, the current hospital burden is as follows: Cádiz (352 hospitalizations, of which 58 in ICU), Córdoba (273 hospitalizations, of which 46 in ICU), Granada (638 hospitalizations, of which 128 in ICU), Huelva (133 hospitalizations, of which 18 in ICU), Jaén (293 hospitalizations, of which 45 in ICU), Malaga (352 hospitalizations, of which 53 in ICU) and Seville (565 hospitalizations, of which 118 in ICU).

In the autonomous community, for its part, a total of 2,490 positives have been registered compared to the more than 3,000 on Saturday and this Sunday there were 18 Andalusians who have lost their lives as a result of the disease. Finally, 2,265 covid patients have been recovered, 126 of them in the province of Almería.

The article here on the La Voz de Almería has details of the upcoming ban on the sale of single use plastic bags in Spain.

Read More for a Goggle translation of the article.

This is the rolling coronavirus story for Saturday 21 November 2020

Stats for the last 24 hours - 304 more cases and 2 more deaths

https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/12/almeria/204523/mas-de-300-positivos-y-dos-nuevos-muertos-en-otra-jornada-fatidica-de-la-covid

Google translation:

More than 300 positives and two new deaths in another fateful day of the covid

Hospitals in the province keep 123 hospitalized for the third consecutive day

The weekend has begun in Almería with the pandemic again above 300 positives and two new deaths in another black day of the covid in the province, where the virus has become more deadly in the last two months and is already 197 people from Almería died from the disease.

This is how the daily report of the Ministry of Health and Families of the Junta de Andalucía collects it this Saturday, where the 304 infected detected in the last 24 hours raise the total of patients diagnosed by PCR and antigen tests to 16,506 of the more than 214,000 that are in all Andalusia, where today 3,424 new infected have been notified.

With this new blow to the province, the pandemic becomes strong in Almeria hospitals, where for the third consecutive day it keeps 123 patients from the province admitted, seven new in the last 24 hours, when a patient in serious condition has needed to be admitted in an Intensive Care Unit, where 36 people from Almeria currently remain.

In the rest of Andalusia, the current hospital pressure remains the same at the moment: Cádiz (366 hospitalizations, of which 59 in ICU), Córdoba (307 hospitalizations, of which 49 in ICU), Granada (678 hospitalizations, of which than 136 in ICU), Huelva (138 hospitalizations, of which 17 in ICU), Jaén (308 hospitalizations, of which 45 in ICU), Malaga (378 hospitalizations, of which 49 in ICU) and Seville (648 hospitalizations, of which 121 in ICU).

It should also be noted that this Saturday, 50 deceased patients have been registered in the autonomous community, 16 of them in Seville, the highest number today.

For its part, the number of cured continues to increase and today there have been 218 patients who have said goodbye to the covid, which leaves the total already on the verge of 11,000 recovered since the beginning of the pandemic, in the month of March .

As reported by Health, as of November 20, the General Directorate of Health Care has carried out a total of 1,687,612 PCR, 649,733 rapid antigen tests and 1,145,537 rapid tests. In total, there are 3,482,882 tests carried out.