25 Sep, 2020 @ 11:53
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COVID-19: Madrid warned that ‘tough weeks are coming’

Salvador Illa
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MADRID has been warned of tough times ahead by Spain’s Health Minister Salvador Illa.

New restrictions are set to be announced today in the city, which has already restricted gatherings to no more than six people and imposed a partial lockdown on 850,000 people.

Residents of boroughs designated as hot spots are not allowed to leave their area unless they have a good reason – for example to go to a medical appointment.

Salvador Illa
Salvador Illa

Yesterday the Olive Press reported that the cumulative total of coronavirus infections in Spain has now topped 700,000, with Madrid being particularly badly hit.

Illa said: “Tough weeks are coming for Madrid. We have to act with determination to bring the pandemic under control.”

The total number of cases detected by PCR since the beginning of the pandemic to 702,209, or 1.4% of the country’s population.

However the real number of infected is likely to be around 2.3 million people, or 5% of the population, according to estimates by health experts following several studies.

The total number of cases by PCR has doubled in the past 40 days, rising from 342,813 on August 14 to more than 702,000 today.

For the past week, however, the number of new cases registered daily has hovered around 10,000 after reaching almost 15,000 last Friday.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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