5 May, 2020 @ 12:36
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Increase in coronavirus infection rate remains below 1% as Spain prepares to enter Phase 1 of deescalation plan next week

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SPAIN has registered 185 COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours and 867 new infections. 

According to the Health Ministry, the daily death toll is up from yesterday’s 164, while the infection rate has significantly increased from Monday’s 356.

However there has been a pattern of Mondays recording much lower numbers before increasing on Tuesday as statistics from the weekend can take longer to be counted.

The good news is that the number of deaths and new infections have remained below 200 and 1,000 respectively.

Meanwhile, far many more people (2,143) have recovered in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of people to overcome coronavirus to 123,486.

Madrid and Catalunya accounted for more than half of today’s recorded deaths, clocking 89 each.

They were followed by Castilla-La Mancha with 26 deaths, Castilla y Leon with 14, then the Basque Country (12) and Valencia (10).

Some 80% of patients who died, in both men and women, continue to be over 70, while the majority of patients had previous conditions, including obesity and diabetes.

Pressure on hospitals has remained low and the number of ICU patients has only increased slightly, mostly in Madrid and Catalunya.

Meanwhile, the rise in infection rate has remained below 1% across the whole country, meaning the regions are still on track to enter Phase 1 of the deescalation plan next week.

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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