Today, for the first time in a month, Spain has reported under 400 deaths, 399 to be exact. Dr Fernando Simon Soria, Director of the Centre for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies for the Ministry of Health, said that during the last week in Spain they carryiedout over 700,000 PCR tests, which is over triple the amount that was being carried out. Dr Fernando Simon said given that more tests were being carried out, the incidence of positive cases from these tests in the last week is now down to 3.1% when at the end of March it was at 26.8%. The results according to him are better than expected.

Hopefully Andalusia can start looking at de-escalation soon given that incidence is low in this region as we only have 34 cases per 100,000 when compared to the average in Spain of 138 per 100,000.

There has been a total of 4,266 new cases declared today and the total confirmed cases is now at 200,210. The number of deaths has now reached 20,852. The number of people who have recovered is 80,587.

Meanwhile in Andalusia there are 11,555 confirmed cases of which 5,473 have needed hospitalisation and 690 have needed intensive care. As of 21.00 yesterday there are 1,156 patients confirmed with Covid-19 in hospital and 278 of those are in intensive care. There have been 1,013 deaths (Malaga 223, Jaen 140, Granada 205, Cordoba 79, Cadiz 75, Seville 214, Almeria 43, Huelva 34). In Seville there are 2,345 cases and 1,037 of those required hospitalization with 137 in intensive care. There have been 214 deaths while 474 have recovered.

In Andalusia there have been a total of 1,013 deaths so far. A total 3,229 patients have recovered.

In Huelva there are 389 cases, this being an increase of 12 new cases today, 212 have been hospitalized with 29 in intensive care. No new deaths were reported today so the total stays at 34. The good news is 120 have now recovered from the virus.