16 Oct, 2020 @ 15:08
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BREAKING: 2,928 COVID-19 cases detected in Spain’s Andalucia Friday in new record for second wave

Anda Figuressss Friday

ANDALUCIA has detected 2,928 COVID-19 cases by PCR and rapid tests on Friday.

It is the highest daily count seen in the second wave of the virus, according to the Andalucia Institute of Statistics and Cartography.

The previous biggest day was on Wednesday this week, when 2,302 cases were detected.

Meanwhile, there have been 29 deaths in Andalucia related to coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the third deadliest day of the post-lockdown period.

Sevilla has yet again recorded more than any other province, counting 788 cases on Friday.

Granada is in a close second, counting 735 cases over the same period, while Jaen detected 458, Cordoba 312, Malaga 263, Cadiz 170, Almeria 112 and Huelva with 90.

Of the 29 deaths registered on Friday, nine correspond to Sevilla, five to both Cordoba and Granada, four to Cadiz, three to Huelva, two to Malaga and one to Jaen.

Almeria is the only province in the region to have not recorded a coronavirus death in the past 24 hours.

Meanwhile, across the region, some 160 people have been admitted to hospital with the virus in the past 24 hours.

Some 14 of these were taken to intensive care units.

However a total of 764 people have overcome the virus in Andalucia between Thursday and Friday.

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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