The number of positive cases declared today 629, is 68 people more than Monday’s figures and this increase may be down to the lag in reporting over the weekend. Malaga and Almeria still have the majority of new cases but Cadiz and Cordoba are catching up. Huelva continues to have the lowest number of new cases with 6 declared today while every other province is in double or triple figures. One of the new positives is of a parish priest in Aroche, Huelva and this has activated the tracing protocol with over 100 people in Aroche being asked to take the PCR test.

Sadly, there were five more deaths declared today three in Almeria, one in Granada and another in Malaga bringing the total since the pandemic began in Andalusia to 1,486. Tuesday 25th August report for all the Andalusian Provinces.

Huelva has seen no new patient hospitalised in the last 24 hours which is always good news. While the use of hospital beds in Spain is now over 5% in Andalusia it is less than half that at 2.2%.

Today the President of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, said that he would not be declaring a state of emergency as Spain starts into the second wave. He did however outline that each autonomous state could activate a state of emergency and that the central government would support all the communities as needed.

President Sanchez outlined the importance of levelling this new curve and said that although the numbers are increasing the population should remain calm while being prudent. He said that each community had the resources at hand to deal with this new surge and he was making two thousand military service people available to help in the tracing of new cases.