The Health Ministry’s María José Sierra, says 30,080 patients have recovered from coronavirus and have been discharged from hospital, that’s 29% of the total. What’s more in most of the regions, the number of people hospitalised has fallen compared to previous days. The downward trend of daily deaths has continued […]
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez gave a national address yesterday to say the government intends to extend the coronavirus lockdown for another 15 days until April 26. He said the state of alarm that has confined us in our homes for the past three weeks must be extended if the country […]
Spain has overtaken Italy for the first time for the number of confirmed coronavirus cases, but the overnight death toll fell from the previous day, and health officlas remain hopeful. With 117,710 confirmed cases, Spain is now second in the number of infections only to the United States, which has […]
Health officials say they see a glimmer of hope with the epidemic slowing in terms of proportional daily increases in infections and deaths. Spain’s death toll from the coronavirus rose above 10,000 yesterday after a record 950 people died overnight. Spain has the world’s second-highest death toll after Italy at […]
The Health Ministry’s María José Sierra says Spain is still in the stabilisation phase of the coronavirus pandemic. While the latest data is positive, the main focus is on patients in intensive care. The numbers in ICUs, she said, “reflects what happened two to three weeks ago, and twenty-two percent […]
The Spanish Cabinet has approved a series of economic and social measures aimed at assisting those who are being affected by the almost total shutdown of the economy to slow the spread of coronavirus and ease congestion in the country’s hospitals. The Spanish Health Ministry announced that 849 people had […]
Health Minister Salvador Illa has described the latest coronavirus figures which show a slight decrease in day-on-day deaths as “a ray of hope.” Another 6,400 cases were confirmed, the lowest increase in new cases for a week. The total of deaths reached 7,340 after 812 new fatalities The total number […]
Despite a continuing increase in deaths from coronavirus here, the Health Ministry’s Fernando Simón, says the daily number of new cases has been falling for several days. Down 9% is the latest figure but there could be a delay in reporting because of the weekend. 20% of patients have now […]
The country is reaching the peak that we have been so worried about, in some parts they may even be moving past it, but we need to be cautious,” the words from the Health Ministry’s Fernando Simón, who added that the real battle now is in the overburdened intensive care […]
The Health Ministry’s Fernando Simón says the country may be “approaching the long-awaited peak” in coronavirus infections, as the number of cases has risen by a smaller percentage in the past 15 days. Simón said “We have to prudent with these figures, but they are promising and give us some […]
The Health Ministry’s Fernando Simón, says “12.5% of patients have recovered from coronavirus here so far. This figure is rising every day but unfortunately we still have a larger number of deaths, the majority, 67%, are aged above 80 years old.” Simón said “We have gone from an increase of […]
Dear Listener – These are the worst of times. In the current year no one will avoid being affected either directly or indirectly by the virus and so whilst having record breaking audiences would normally be cause for great celebration, we recognise that this is largely due to the need […]
