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Álvaro Frías / Eugenio cabezas
Guardia Civil officers are investigating the case of an elderly married couple who died within hours of each other, in their home in Nerja. The 90-year-old man and his wife, 84, were British and had lived in Nerja for several years. They were bot
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MIGUEL ÁNGEL ALFONSO / Ángel Escalera
For the first time in 90 days the Health ministry's daily Covid-19 case report included no new deaths registered in the previous 24 hours on Monday. The official coronavirus death toll in Spain remains, therefore, at 27,127. Delays in the
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NURIA TRIGUERO
The official number of deaths because of coronavirus in Malaga province was 287 on Thursday this week. Despite this, it is clear both locally and nationally that the death rate linked to the pandemic is higher than what the Ministry of Heath figures ... with previous years' data of the cause of death with the aim of "estimating deaths due to the Covid-19 outbreak", according to the INE. Some 5.2% of people in Spain have had virus, fuller test results reveal At a national level, the INE data has ... shown a year-on-year increase of 43,945 deaths comparing the first 21 weeks of 2019 with those in 2020. In percentage terms, the increase is 24,1%. The data measures up to 24 May and, up to that date, the government had said 28,752 deaths were because of
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melchor sáiz-pardo / ángel escalera
There was encouraging news as Spain entered its tenth week of lockdown: the number of new infections and coronavirus-related deaths hit a record low since the beginning of the state of alarm. On Monday, for the second day in a row, the number of ... deaths was below 100. In fact 59 fatalities were recorded between 00:00 and 23:59 on Sunday - the new time slot established by the Ministry of Health for its pandemic statistics. This is the lowest figure since Friday 3 March and also well below the 87 ... deaths announced on Saturday which was also a two-month record low New cases, according to the figures announced on Monday, were also down, with the number of new infections standing at 285 compared to 421 on Saturday. Malaga province With regards
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Mateo Balín
The daily figures offered by the government on Friday showed a slight increase in the day-on-day number of deaths related to Covid-19: 229 fatalities, 16 more than Thursday. This takes the total number of deaths related to coronavirus, according ... to the government's official figures, to 26,299. This is the third consecutive day that deaths have returned to figures above 200. The new confirmed cases by PCR tests show 222,857 have caught the virus in Spain since the start of the health crisis.
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ISAAC ASENJO
The daily statistics reported by the Spanish Health Ministry on Sunday showed 410 new coronavirus-related deaths in the previous 24 hours. This is significantly fewer than the 565 new coronavirus-related deaths reported on Saturday. Meanwhile ... however the ministry is updating figures after the government ordered the different regional health authorities around Spain to use the same criteria to produce their daily case and death statistics. The total of Covid-19 deaths in Spain has now passed
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Ángel Escalera
The province of Malaga has now gone three days with no confirmed deaths from coronavirus, according to official data provided on Tuesday by the regional Ministry of Health and Families. As a result, the Covid-19 death toll remains at 261. The ... intensive care. Across Andalucía, there have been 45 new Covid-19 cases confirmed in the last day, bringing the total number to 14,394. As for deaths, another four have been reported (total 1,267). In the region, 7,230 people have been given the all-clear. ... Spain A further 185 coronavirus-related deaths were confirmed in Spain on Tuesday, 21 more than on Monday, bringing the total number of fatalities to 25,613. This is the fourth consecutive day in which the 200 barrier of daily deaths has not been
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Ángel Escalera
As was the case last week, yesterday Monday and today Tuesday saw no new coronavirus-related deaths in Malaga province announced by the regional Ministry of Health and Families. This means that the local Covid-19 death toll remains at 271. ... However, it should be noted that deaths over the weekend tend to be announced with a delay of up to 72 hours. Additionally, it can take several weeks from the time a person contracts the virus until they die, after their condition has worsened. In terms ... confirmed on Tuesday, taking the total to 15,522. Four more deaths have been reported (total 1,326). Those given the all-clear has risen to 9,297 (up 92).
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Miguel ángel alfonso
The number of coronavirus-related deaths in Spain continues to plateau with new daily recorded deaths having remained at around the 500 mark for the last six days. On Thursday the Ministry of Health reported 551 deaths from Covid-19 in the ... on Wednesday night. The Generalitat, which until now only reported the cases and confirmed deaths in hospitals and other health centres, added information gathered by funeral homes from death certificates. As a result, it brought to light 3,242 more ... deaths from coronavirus hidden in care and nursing homes. If this new data was added the historical series, its ability to mark trends and track developments of the outbook could be lost.
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melchor sáiz-pardo / ángel escalera
Experts were starting to get worried on Thursday that Spain could be starting a fresh spike in Covid-19 infections. For the last few days the number of new cases identified and deaths had been steadily increasing. This raised fears that the more ... Catalonia and Castilla y León) made up 70 per cent of Thursday’s total. The number of recorded deaths in the same period was 217, compared to 184 on Wednesday and 176 on Tuesday. Local data In Malaga province on Thursday, the number of people cured in