Dr Fernando Simon Soria, Director of the Centre for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies for the Ministry of Health during a press conference today said the older people in our society are being hit hard with this outbreak and over 87% of all deaths are over 70 and then if we look at the over 80’s they account for 67% of all deaths. He also outlined that 12.5% of all patients have now been cured.

There has been a total of 8,578 new cases declared today and the total confirmed cases is now at 56,188. The number of patients in intensive care is 3,679 and the number of deaths has now reached 4,089. The number of people who have recovered is 7,015.

Meanwhile in Andalusia there are 3,406 confirmed cases of which 1,626 are in hospital 134 are intensive care and 1,646 are in quarantine and there have been 134 deaths (Malaga 42, Jaen 15, Granada 32, Cordoba 7, Cadiz 5, Seville 24, Almeria 7, Huelva 2). In Seville there are 627 cases with 293 of those in hospital, the remaining 310 are in quarantine in their own homes, 24 deaths while 8 have been cured.

In Andalusia there have been a total of 134 deaths so far and 228 patients have recovered and 77 of these have now been declared cured.

In Huelva there are 95 cases, this being an increase of 18 new cases today, 52 are in hospital and 41 are in quarantine in their own homes. Sadly Huelva has reported its second death of a woman today to Covid-19. The good news is that six have been sent home from hospital and another two have been confirmed cured.