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Substantial rise in new Covid-19 cases in Spain’s Balearics down to delay in verification

By Cathy Elelman • Published: 18 Apr 2020 • 14:51

JUMP UP: Eighty more people have been added to the islands’ coronavirus case total CREDIT: Shutterstock

A SUBSTANTIAL rise in the number of new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the Balearic Islands is down to a delay in verifications.
The Public Health and Participation Directorate General’s Epidemiology Service reported 47 additional positive cases to the Health Ministry last night after receiving notifications of the infection confirmations from the care services.
The Health Ministry figures show that of today Saturday 1,748 people on the archipelago have tested positive for coronavirus, eighty more than yesterday.
The fatality figure has also risen significantly. Another 14 coronavirus-related deaths between April 12 and 16 have been reported, pushing up the total to 148.
Approximately 17 per cent of the positive cases of Covid-19 detected on the archipelago are health workers.

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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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