translated from Spanish: Coronavirus: Spain reported 605 deaths, lowest number in 18 days

While the number may be more optimistic than it really is, the truth is that the coronavirus pandemic continues to reced in Spain, where today 605 new deaths were recorded, the lowest daily figure in 18 days, while the number of patients added up to 4,576 contagions, accumulating a total of 157,022 infected. “The increase in contagions was 3%, with what we continue in the downward trend that we have been observing,” said Dr. María José Sierra, from the Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies of España.La expert who advises the Spanish government on the control of the pandemic, said that the increase in the number of hospitals and patients in need of admission to the Intensive Care Units (UCI) was also 3%.

On the other hand, the positive data remains the number of people cured, which are already 55,668 people, which accounts for 35% of those diagnosed. As for the regions of Spain, the Community of Madrid already has 44,783 sufferers with coronaviruses and 5,972 killed, followed by Catalonia with 31,824 people infected and 3,231 killed. The truth is that Spain today completes the fourth week of mandatory confinement of the population under state of alarm by the coronavirus, an exceptional measure that the government adopted on 14 March with the aim of containing the pandemic and bending it. The Spanish authorities insist that the pandemic is currently stabilized and that, after the peak of contagion, it begins to retreat. Last week, contagions increased by an average of 3.7%, almost half compared to the previous week, when the increase was 7%. Meanwhile, the first week of confinement the increase was 22%. From next Monday and Tuesday, although the general confinement will be until April 26, Spain will recover the non-essential economic activity that was suspended by decree from 30 March. In this note:

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