Sport

Potential new La Liga rules could comes as a huge boost to Malaga

Borja Gutiérrez

La Liga hopes to bring in a raft of new measures to minimise the potential impact a coronavirus outbreak could have on the competition. The organisers of Spain's top two tiers of men's football are keen that the new season, which will get under ... way next Friday, 11 September, won't suffer any setbacks, such was the case when an outbreak of the virus in the Fuenlabrada camp caused the promotion play-offs to be delayed. Of these new measures, the one which will be of most interest to Malaga

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Mass testing and early closing in Teba, Almáchar and Cuevas de San Marcos

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...the number of positive cases in the village amounted to a 14-day rate of 3,500 per 100,000 inhabitants, sparked by an outbreak in a care home where so far 100 cases have been reported. New cases The latest figures reported on Thursday for Malaga

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Six more Covid patients admitted to hospital in Malaga with 184 new cases in 24 hours

ALBERTO GÓMEZ

...deaths since the first outbreak of cases in March, with 320. Eighteen new deaths in the province were recorded last week. The total number of cases confirmed in this area was 11,171 on Monday, with 4,706 cases declared as cured (where the patient tests

National

Spain becomes first country in Europe to reach half a million reported coronavirus infections

javier varela / ángel escalera

...by the outbreak declared at the centre for people with disabilities in Coín (Prodicco), where there are 47 people infected, of which 26 are residents and the remaining 21 are workers. In the outbreak at the Vitalia residence in Teatinos (Malaga

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French students quarantined in Malaga after one tests positive for coronavirus

FRANCISCO GUTIÉRREZ

...with the patients are being traced and tested, so more cases have not been ruled out. Another outbreak, located in the Guadalhorce district some days ago, is also still in the investigation phase and the total number of positives went up from nine to ... 13 on Sunday. The rest of the "clusters" of cases in Malaga province are considered to be under control, with no new cases reported in Casabermeja, no increase on the 109 infected in the Red Cross shelter outbreak, and one new case reported at the

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Malaga's daily death figure rises, but recoveries still outnumber new cases

...was not an indication of a new outbreak. "Specific investigations are being done in regions where there has been an increase in cases, but so far we have not detected a worrying outbreak," said Fernando Simón, the director the Health Emergency

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Additional contact tracers and more phone lines in primary health care

MARÍA DOLORES TORTOSA

...deal of time. He also announced that 100 new workers are being taken on to trace contacts of positive Covid-19 cases when an outbreak is detected. In addition to the 8,200 tracers currently available for this task, the Junta requested another 370

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Telephone appointments to continue at public health centres

Ángel Escalera

...was introduced during the coronavirus outbreak. Staff at the district health centres will be the ones to decide if a patient needs to physically come into the surgery or if a solution can be given over the phone. The SAS said that this new

Opinion

What kind of recession?

Mark Nayler

...since the outbreak of civil war in the summer of 1936. But by itself, the decline of 17.8% doesn't necessarily signal the onset of the kind of recession seen a decade ago: depending on the statistics for the quarter now ending, and on how the Spanish

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Local health service carries out nearly 2,000 lab tests a day for Covid-19

Ángel Escalera

...real test of this automated operation came after the outbreak at the Red Cross shelter in Malaga city in June. The hospital is already considering increasing its capacity if the number of reported cases grows. The robotic equipment is called