In the now weekly Saturday press conference, the President of Spain Pedro Sanchez pointed out that since the lockdown started Spain has reduced the spread of Covid19 by 66 times, from 35% daily growth to 0.5%. President Sanchez also informed the general public his intention to ask for another extension of the State of Emergency this coming Wednesday in Congress. Mr Sanchez said that as of Monday 4th May, as nearly all of Spain enters stage zero, the use of masks on all public transport will be compulsory. Over 6 million masks will be made available in all the major transport hubs while another 7 million will be given to local Town Halls. From May 4th small businesses can open to clients who have booked an appointment earlier. The President clarified that each business will only be allowed to have a ratio of one client per worker on premises during this stage.

There has been a total of 1,147 new cases declared today and the total confirmed cases is 216,582. The number of deaths has now reached 25,100. The number of people who have recovered is 117,248

Meanwhile in Andalusia there are 14,195 confirmed cases of which 5,962 have needed hospitalisation and 735 have needed intensive care. As of 21.00 yesterday there are 644 (-30)patients confirmed with Covid-19 in hospital and 158 (-9)of those are in intensive care.

In Andalusia with 6,821 patients recovered, the hospitals are as follows please note that the total of patients hospitalised includes those in intensive care

Province	Total Hospitalised	Total in Intensive care
Almeria	26	5
Cadiz	106	18
Cordoba	45	15
Granada	124	30
Huelva	16	5
Jaen	69	16
Malaga	117	24
Seville	112	36

 

There have been 1,253 deaths in Andalusia (Malaga 261, Jaen 162, Granada 248, Cordoba 100, Cadiz 135, Seville 255, Almeria 49, Huelva 43). In Seville there are 2,662 cases and 1,161 of those required hospitalization with 145 in intensive care. There have been 255 deaths while 1,010 have recovered.

In Huelva there are 466 cases, this being an increase of 20 new cases today, 220 have been hospitalized with 30 in intensive care. No new deaths were reported today so the total remains at 43. The good news is 210 have now recovered from the virus.