The global coronavirus pandemic exceeds 3.19 million deaths worldwide, according to the benchmark count from Johns Hopkins University. The number of people infected by COVID-19 amounts to more than 152 million people.

Coronavirus data in Spain: cases and deaths

The Ministry of Health reported on Wednesday the latest coronavirus data in Spain and the Covid-19 has already left 78,566 dead and 3,551 have been registered. 262 cases diagnosed since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

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22:15 Vaccination Europe: the European Commission ensures that 70% of the population will be vaccinated by July

The European Commission has welcomed the pace it is taking vaccination on the continent after reporting that a quarter of the EU population has already received at least one dose. In addition, it has ensured the existence of enough injections so that 70% of adults can receive the long-awaited injection for the month of July.

21:54 Canada Vaccination: First Country to Approve Pfizer for Adolescents 12 and Over

Canada today became the first country in the world to approve the use of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine For teenagers from 12 years old. "After completing a comprehensive and independent scientific review of the evidence, health authorities have determined that this vaccine is safe and effective in preventing Covid-19 when used in children between the ages of 12 and 15," health regulators would say in a statement. release.

21:26 Coronavirus France: 26,000 infections and 245 deaths in the last 24 hours

The French Ministry of Health has reported 26,000 positives and 245 deaths in the last 24 hours, which exceeds 24,000 infections and the 243 deaths on Tuesday. Thus, the global balance rises to 5,706,378 and 105,660, respectively. The good news is due to the drop in ICU admissions, from 5,504 to 5,402.

20:54 Coronavirus Chile: second day in a row with less than 4,000 cases

Chile begins a decline in its second wave after chaining two days without exceeding the barrier of 4,000 infections. After registering 3,791 positives today, the future is looked to with hope after a balance that shows 1.2 million cases since the start of the pandemic. In addition, the 30 deaths in the last 24 hours bring the global figure to 26,726.

20:26 Extremadura restrictions: it will allow 50% capacity in hospitality establishments and 85% terrace after the state of alarm

The president of the Junta de Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, has announced that Once the state of alarm ends on May 9, it will allow a 50% capacity inside the catering establishments, with tables of up to six people, and 85% on the terraces, with tables of ten people, while in shops, the capacity will be at 75%. In addition, from Friday, May 7, there will be no perimeter closure.

20:00 Carolina Darias, Minister of Health, on the vaccination strategy:

"The vaccination strategy is a living document that is being updated. There are already communities that are beginning to vaccinate people between 50 and 60. This week they will evaluate whether this age group can be injected with the Janssen vaccine. We are at cruising speed, 2.5 million doses have been administered in one week. We are studying which people They will form part of the independent evaluation committee," he said.

19:55 Carolina Darias, Minister of Health, on the vaccination campaign:

"We continue with a good rate of vaccination, we are going like a shot. We are among the four EU countries with the highest number of people immunized. We continue to meet milestones and objectives. Weeks ago there were more people with the full regimen than people infected, this Monday we met the second milestone: in the first week of May we exceeded five million people in our country with the full regimen "80% of people over the age of 80 have at least one dose. The rate of vaccination is increasing," he said.

19:48 Carolina Darias, Minister of Health, on the state of alarm:

"The state of alarm, as regulated in the Constitution, is designed for exceptional situations, not to last over time. When the Government wanted to maintain it for six more months, it was highly criticized. The epidemiological situation today shows that many autonomous communities are relaxing measures, and the vaccination campaign is advancing. The scenario as of May 9 is completely different. The measures are enough to continue tackling the virus. Since the virus arrived until now there has not always been a state of alarm," he explained.

19:27 Coronavirus Spain: 6,317 new cases and 167 deaths

The Ministry of Health has just notified 6,317 new cases and another 167 deaths, increasing the global balance to 3,551,262 infections and 78,566 deaths. In addition, the accumulated incidence drops eight points after dropping almost ten on Tuesday (1,273 duplicate cases have been eliminated in Castilla y León), standing at 205.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days.

19:05 Coronavirus Italy: 10,585 new cases and 267 deaths

The Ministry of Health has notified 10,585 new cases, which represents an increase compared to the 9,116 registered on Tuesday. However, the good news is that the number of deaths has decreased, from 305 to 267. Thus, the global balance since the start of the pandemic is 4.07 million infections and 122,005 deaths, only surpassed in Europe by Great Britain. and in the world by six countries.

18:39 Coronavirus UK: 2,144 new cases and 27 deaths

The UK Government has updated its epidemiological situation on Wednesday, reporting 2,144 new cases and 27 deaths in the 28 days after a test positive across the country. It also reported that 34,795,074 people have already received the first dose of the vaccine and that another 15,887,493 are already immunized after receiving the full regimen.

18:15 This is vaccination in Spain

18:05 Coronavirus Castilla-La Mancha: 406 new cases

Castilla-La Mancha has registered three deaths -two in the province of Toledo and one in Albacete- and 406 new cases of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, making a total of 5,943 deaths and 186,809 infections since the start of the pandemic.

As reported by the Ministry of Health in a press release, 214 of the 406 new cases of covid-19 have been recorded in Toledo, 70 in Ciudad Real, 68 in Guadalajara, 27 in Albacete and another 27 in Cuenca.

17:50 Coronavirus Aragon: 302 infections in Zaragoza alone

Public Health has reported 374 new covid-19 infections detected on Tuesday in Aragon, 179 more than a day earlier and of which 302 correspond to the province of Zaragoza, with a positivity of 8.54% as a result of 4,377 diagnostic tests,

According to the definitive data published this Wednesday in the Transparency Portal by the Government of Aragon, 302 of the new cases have been detected in the province of Zaragoza, 56 in Huesca and 13 in Teruel and 3 not. the provenance has been specified.

17:20 Coronavirus Madrid: more than 700,00 infections in the pandemic

The Community of Madrid has registered 19 deaths from covid in hospitals this Wednesday, the same number as Tuesday, and although it has dropped hospital pressure, new infections have increased after the bridge, causing the total number of confirmed positives to exceed the barrier of 700,000 since the start of the pandemic.

Of the 1,872 new infections reported, 1,350 correspond to the last twenty-four hours, which brings the total number of positive cases to 700,238 since the start of the pandemic in the region, according to the epidemiological report of the Ministry of Health.

17:00 The Xunta will vaccinate Galician sailors

The Xunta has initiated the protocol to vaccinate the crew members of the fishing fleet against covid-19, for which reason it maintains contacts with the Social Institute of la Mariña (ISM) to exchange data and organize the necessary logistics to start the process as soon as possible.

As explained by the Ministry of the Sea in a press release, these contacts take place after the Ministry of Health authorized the start of the necessary protocol to immunize sea professionals and hopes that "in the next few days" it will design the procedure to follow to start as soon as possible.

16:40 Canary Islands Coronavirus: 164 new cases and three deaths

The Ministry of Health has registered 164 new cases of Covid 19 on the islands on a day in which three deaths have been reported men with the disease.

These are two 77-year-old men in Tenerife and another 76-year-old in Gran Canaria, who, like the other two deceased, had previous pathologies and were admitted to the hospital.

16:10 Limits due to the coronavirus to the Fatima pilgrimage

The international pilgrimage on May 13 to the Portuguese Sanctuary of Fatima will once again welcome the faithful, after taking place with the site empty a year ago due to to the coronavirus pandemic, but the celebrations will be limited to 7,500 people.

The sanctuary reported today that the pilgrimage will be carried out in accordance with the measures of the health authorities of Portugal, which had to be confined on January 15 and began a gradual reopening on March 15 that culminated in the last phase of the lack of confinement last Saturday.

15:50 The Balearic Islands will maintain the curfew

This Wednesday the Balearic Government approved maintaining the curfew from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. May, as well as that controls continue in the ports and airports of the islands for national passengers.

The Balearic executive held an extraordinary Government Council approving four measures to control the pandemic that will expire when the state of alarm ends on Sunday, after the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands declared inadmissible this Wednesday the request of the Government to authorize it to maintain these measures, because they were not approved by the Government Council when the consultation was made.

15:30 WHO commits to data analysis and artificial intelligence to prevent future pandemics

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today the creation of an Intelligence Center for Pandemics and Epidemics, based in Berlin, from which it will seek to anticipate future pandemics with the latest technologies, such as big data analysis or artificial intelligence.

The center, presented at a press conference by WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, will aim to collect large amounts of information from various sources in order to try to predict crises health problems such as the current one caused by COVID-19.

15:10 Record deaths in India

India on Wednesday broke a new record for daily deaths from coronavirus, with 3,780, as courts pressure authorities to act more forcefully and solve the lack of oxygen in hospitals that are causing "a criminal act no less than genocide."

The human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has also criticized the response of an Indian government "obsessed with criticism and not with the lack of medical products" during the second wave of the pandemic, which continues its spectacular progress in the second most affected country in the world in absolute terms.

14:50 Catalonia, Castilla y León and Andalusia eliminate the curfew after 9M

Four days after the end of the state of alarm and waiting for the Interterritorial Health Council to give this Wednesday guidelines to the communities to design their plans towards normality, Catalonia, Andalusia and Castilla y León have already announced that they will not maintain the night curfew after 9M.

Other autonomies such as Navarra, Castilla-La Mancha or the Balearic Islands do propose maintaining the current curfew, as well as the Valencian Community, which, where appropriate, is studying a shorter time limit. Meanwhile, the Basque Country is finalizing a decree, the content of which has not been revealed, but which could have an application horizon of four or six weeks.

14:20 Coronavirus Melilla: 92 deaths since the start of the pandemic

Two people with active coronavirus have died in Melilla on Tuesday, bringing the total number to 92 since the start of the health crisis.

The data from the Epidemiological Surveillance System provided by the Ministry of Economy and Social Policies and the National Institute of Health Management (Ingesa) also reflect a slight decrease in active cases in Melilla, which stands at 335 after 19 new infections and 29 patients considered recovered, in addition to the two deceased.

14:00 Possible cases of coronavirus in Everest Base Camp

The official start of the ascents of Everest is just around the corner, after the Nepalese authorities closed the highest peak in the world last year due to the pandemic, but several suspected cases of coronavirus at the base camp have triggered the alert.

Several officials from the Himalayan Rescue Association have said that several climbers have shown symptoms of covid-19, including the characteristic cough, at the camp located 5,600 meters above sea level.

13:40 A sailor from the ship in quarantine in Las Palmas died in April with covid

A sailor from the oil tanker Cielo di Hanoi, anchored in quarantine since last Saturday outside the port of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria after testing positive for covid-19 three of its crew members, who are suspected of having the Indian variant, died on April 17, two days after being diagnosed with coronavirus.

According to Efe, sources from the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands have informed Efe, on April 15 the ship's consignee requested a medical visit of a crew member who was transferred to the Perpetuo Socorro Hospital in the capital and was later returned to the ship with the "diagnostic print of covid-19", for which the mandatory protocol was applied in the ship.

13:10 Coronavirus Castilla y León: 313 new positives and five deaths

Castilla y León has notified 313 new cases of the covid this Wednesday, sixteen more than those reported yesterday (297), with others five more deaths in the last 24 hours, on a day in which hospitals have also discharged 57 patients admitted for covid.

According to the data provided this Wednesday by the Ministries of Health and Family and Equal Opportunities, the five deaths have been registered in the provinces of Burgos, Palencia, Soria, Valladolid and Zamora, with which the accumulated number in this area it is 5,711 in the Community as a whole since the start of the pandemic.

12:40 Navarra will maintain the curfew

The Government of Navarra will open the Foral Community from Sunday, May 9, after the end of the state of alarm, and plans to maintain the curfew from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.

Among the novelties regarding the current measures is also the recommendation to limit meetings in homes to a maximum of six people from two living units, except cohabitants, and the extension to 10:00 p.m. .

12:25 Coronavirus prevention: Today, International Hand Hygiene Day

12:05 Coronavirus variants: Do antigen tests work to detect new variants?

The Dr. César Carballo, assistant to the Emergency Department of the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, has pointed out on Twitter that "although it seems that rapid antigen tests do work to detect new variants, they should be investigated individually and for each variant", because he considers that "there could be surprises." "It would be interesting to send a team of experts to India to investigate all this...", he added.

11:55 Coronavirus vaccines: How many doses are necessary to be immune?

Despite the fact that there is much talk about the third dose of the Pfizer vaccine after the words of the co-founder of the pharmaceutical company, since Health assure that to be immune to Covid-19 two doses of this vaccine are needed.

11:25 State of alarm: Ayuso: "Let's see what surprises the Government has"

Isabel Díaz Ayuso, acting president of the Community of Madrid, has said that, now, from on May 9, when the state of alarm subsides, "we are going to see what surprises the Government has for everyone because it was waiting for the polls to close in Madrid to open the panorama." In statements to 'Telecinco' collected by EFE, Díaz Ayuso has indicated that it is "incredible that in a few days Spain does not know what will become of its future, that neither the company, nor tourism, nor families know what we are going to do in the coming days". "We have to see it because I don't think it's sensible for a house to have a party of forty people at three in the morning and the bar downstairs is closed at eleven," Ayuso said.

10:45 Pfizer vaccine: The creators of the Pfizer vaccine set a date for the end of the pandemic

The founders of the German laboratory BioNTech, responsible for Pfizer's vaccines against the coronavirus, believe that the pandemic may last until mid-2022, when they expect all regions to have reached a high level of vaccinations and herd immunity.

10:10 State of Alarm: Today, a key day for the Autonomous Communities

The communities are waiting expectantly for the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System this afternoon to find out about the possible solutions that the Government can give them to control the virus without the shield of the state of alarm, and with which they will finish designing their plans towards normality. The last meeting of the Ministry of Health and the autonomies in this state of alarm, decreed on October 25 and which will expire next Sunday, will be marked precisely by the measures that they can take now to prevent the relaxation of the restrictions from implying an increase of infections when the vaccination process is not advanced enough, according to EFE.

The Government has maintained from the beginning that it was not going to extend this situation any further because the autonomies have "sufficient tools" to contain the virus without the need for it. However, there are several that have shown their reluctance due to the legal defenselessness in which they are left without the umbrella of the state of alarm, having to submit their measures to the discretion of the judges. In order to prevent a repeat of the disparity in judicial resolutions from last summer, the Executive yesterday approved a royal decree-law that will allow the autonomies to appeal to the Supreme Court when their measures are denied by the higher courts of justice.

09:40 Pfizer Vaccine: No "Clinical Trial" on Third Dose

"The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine will require a third dose according to company co-founder Dr. Ugur Sahin German pharmaceutical BioNTech, which admitted that an additional reinforcement is required. Be careful... this has not been proven in any clinical trial so far," Dr. César Carballo, assistant to the Emergency Department of the Ramón y University Hospital, wrote on Twitter. Cajal.

09:00 Vaccination is doubly important

It protects vaccinated people but also indirectly others.

More people vaccinated mean that everyone, especially those most vulnerable to COVID-19, is less likely to be exposed to the virus.

08:30 The United States accumulates 578,403 deaths and 32,510,422 infections by covid-19

On Tuesday, the United States reached 32,510,422 confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and 578,403 deaths from the disease of covid-19, according to the independent count by Johns Hopkins University.

08:00 What are the benefits of getting vaccinated?

The main objective of vaccination is to reduce severe cases, hospitalization and mortality from COVID-19 infection.

If they call you to get vaccinated, don't miss out on your appointment. Vaccines are safe and effective.

07:30 Controversy over a covid outbreak in 15 civil guards stationed at the Vandellós II power station

Organizations of this police force hold the Generalitat responsible for not vaccinating the agents when others from León were inoculated in your community and have tested negative. (Complete information in the newspaper 'El Mundo').

07:00 Social, health and jurisdictional measures for when the state of alarm ends

06:30 The Brazilian actor Paulo Gustavo, victim of the coronavirus, dies at the age of 42

The Brazilian actor and comedian Paulo Gustavo, one of the most recognized artists in the country, died this Tuesday at the age of 42, a victim of covid-19, a disease he had been fighting in a hospital for nearly two months, according to confirmed his press advisory.

06:00 The founders of BioNTech, creators of the Pfizer vaccine, set a date for the end of the coronavirus pandemic

The founders of the German laboratory BioNTech, responsible for the Pfizer vaccine against covid -19, believe that the pandemic can last until mid-2022, when they expect all regions to have reached a high level of vaccinations and herd immunity.

"By mid-2022, even regions with a high population density such as India will have achieved a high vaccination rate and herd immunity," said the firm's chief executive officer, Ugur Sahin, at an event organized by the daily 'The Wall Street Journal'. Read full news.

05:30 Anticovid vaccines in adolescents, the next big milestone

Following the positive results of the trials, the US and European regulatory agencies will foreseeably give the green light to the use of Pfizer's vaccine in young people of between 12 and 15 years. (Complete information in the newspaper 'El Mundo').

05:00 Update on the vaccination activity report in Spain