Andalusia has reported 2,821 cases in the last 24 hours, a jump of 932 on yesterday’s figures. Seville with 693 reported the most cases. While Huelva had the lowest on 169 and Almeria next 218.

Sadly, there were 72 more deaths declared today 17 less than yesterday. Huelva declared two new deaths bringing the provincial total to 96. Since the pandemic began in Andalusia there have been 3,445 deaths to Covid.

Huelva today saw numbers increase again from yesterday’s low of 80 to 169 today. Huelva capital continues to have the most new cases with 57 with Lepe next on 15 while Ayamonte had 6, Isla Cristina 4 and Villablanca 1. There were 9 new hospitalizations in the last twenty-four hours bringing the current number of hospitalized patients in Huelva due to Covid-19 to 152.

Wednesday 18th November report for all the Andalusian Provinces.

 

Huelva has 16 patients in intensive care. There are currently 3,281 patients in Andalusian hospitals with Covid-19 of which 528 are in intensive care. In terms of occupancy of beds in Andalusian hospitals Covid is taking up 19.6% of all ward beds which is 3.47% higher than the national average. When we look at occupancy of intensive care beds in Andalusia we have 32.06% of the capacity being used by Covid patients which is slightly lower than the national average of 32.31%.

The Junta of Andalusia have announced that there will be 8 new trucks which will travel around Andalusia carrying out on average between 400 to 500 antigen tests a day. These tests are said to have 99% accuracy and the results will be available within 15 minutes. From next week there will be truck for each province, and it will be also have the ability to offer the flu vaccination jab. It will be the health board in each province who decides where the truck will travel to each day to do testing.