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Small rise in new coronavirus infections in Spain’s Balearic Islands

By Cathy Elelman • Published: 06 Apr 2020 • 13:17

GOOD NEWS: More than 40 per cent of the Balearics’ registered cases have now recovered from the virus CREDIT: Shutterstock

THE number of new coronavirus infections in the Balearics islands is up 2 per cent today Monday.
The Health Ministry reported another 27 people have tested positive for Covid-19 since Sunday, compared with 22 new reported cases for the previous 24 hours.
The total now stands at 1,320. Of these, 693 have been treated in hospital, 121 in intensive care.
The virus has also claimed another six lives on the archipelago since yesterday, bringing the total number of fatalities to 81.
Much better news is that another 70 people have recovered from the virus. This pushes the number of recoveries up to 531, or more than 40 per cent of registered cases.
There are approximately 80 Covid-19 cases per every 100,000 island inhabitants.
The Balearics account for just under 1 per cent of Spain’s positive tests for the virus.

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Cathy Elelman

Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.

Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.

Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.

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