Todays press conference by Dr Fernando Simon Soria, Director of the Centre for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies for the Ministry of Health outlined that the number of new cases declared today 3,349 was worrying and currently Madrid is responsible for over of a third of the all the cases declared. Spain is currently carrying out over 60,000 PCR a day and Dr Fernando Simon Soria estimates that an extremely high percentage of all cases are now being detected.

The average age of confirmed patients has dropped to 39 for women and 37 for men. However, if they study the date over the last fortnight the average drops even further to 35, a far cry from the average of 62-63 years back in March & April. Also, the percentage of hospitalisation of positive cases has dropped to near 4% which is over a tenfold drop from March & April when it was averaging 55%. The lethality of Covid-19 has dropped to 0.4% but Dr Simon was quick to point out that now they are detecting a lot more pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic cases.

“Let there be no mistake, matters are not going well, there is an important spread of Covid19 and the numbers are increasing daily” was the warning that Dr Simon gave during today’s Conference. Although many of the cases detected are mild if the numbers continue to increase that 4% of hospitalised cases becomes a serious strain on the Health services and there will be more deaths.

Imported Cases

The Ministry for Health have declared 1,371 imported cases since May, a number far below what was expected. A large proportion of the imported cases are people escaping countries in conflict on immigration small boats and these patients are concentrated in Canaries, Murcia and Andalusia.

Cases Increase in Andalusia

Andalusia is also seeing a rise in cases although not as sharp as in other regions of Spain. Today 586 cases were declared in Andalusia with Malaga declaring the most new cases (+143) and Huelva continuing to be at the bottom of the scale with only 3 new cases declared today.