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Day 142 Spanish News. The pandemic leaves 15 deaths during the weekend in the province of Alicante. Health detects 23 new outbreaks, seven of them in educational centers, and adds 312 new infections since Saturday. A total of 26 people have lost their lives due to the coronavirus during the weekend in the Valencian Community of these 15 in the province of Alicante.

COVID FEAR The pandemic leaves 15 deaths during the weekend in the province of Alicante. Health detects 23 new outbreaks, seven of them in educational centers, and adds 312 new infections since Saturday. A total of 26 people have lost their lives due to the coronavirus during the weekend in the Valencian Community of these 15 in the province of Alicante. The total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic is 1,933 people in the Community: 282 in the province of Castellón, 670 in that of Alicante and 981 in that of Valencia. Eight of the residents in the Community were nursing home residents. Since Saturday, the Valencian Community has registered 711 new cases of coronavirus confirmed by PCR test or through antigen tests, which put the total number of positives at 72,663 people. By province, the distribution of new positives is as follows: 44 in Castellón (8,225 in total); 312 in Alicante (25,112 in total), and 355 in the province of Valencia (39,324 in total). Furthermore, the total number of unassigned patients is currently 2. For its part, since the last update, 2,448 discharges to patients with coronavirus have been registered, so the total of people cured since the start of the pandemic stands at 67,607: 7,581 in Castellón, 23,074 in Alicante and 36,902 in Valencia. In addition, there is a new unassigned discharge, so that the total number of unassigned discharges is 50. Thus, there are currently 13,403 active cases, representing 16.16% of the total positives.

POLICE ON THE SICK A quarter of the Local Police staff are discharged due to an outbreak in El Campello. Eleven police officers have been infected and another five are confined, all on the same weekly shift. The City Council restructures the groups to be able to maintain the service. More than a quarter of the staff of the Local Police of El Campello out of combat due to covid-19. An outbreak that started almost two weeks ago keeps 11 agents out after having tested positive and another five confined for being close contacts, according to sources close to the Consistory. In addition, there are also some relatives of the infected police officers and one of the drivers of the municipal tow truck. All agents belong to the same weekly shift, the one who worked two weeks ago and who had to rejoin today. And since they are 16 of the 23 police officers that compose it, they have had to restructure the shifts to maintain the service. In addition, PCR has been done on all agents who have had contact with the infected police agents.

VACCINE WILL ONLY BE 90% Pfizer Announces Its Vaccine Is 90% Effective. The American laboratory achieves this level of efficiency seven days after the second dose. The American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and the German firm BioNTech have reported this Monday that studies of their vaccine against covid-19 show an efficacy of more than 90% in participants without previous evidence of infection. This level of efficacy has been achieved seven days after the second dose, that is, 28 days after the start of the vaccination, which has two doses, although both companies warn that the final efficacy could vary as the study progresses, according to collect a joint statement. The firms add that in this phase three of the study no safety problem has been reported, so the independent body that supervises the trials has recommended collecting additional information, which will be analyzed with the regulatory authorities. Phase three of the trial began on July 27 and has involved 43,538 participants to date, of whom 38,955 received the second dose on November 8. Pfizer and BioNTech continue to accumulate data on the safety and efficacy of the vaccine and expect to produce 50 million doses this year and 1.3 billion doses in 2021.

TESTING IN SPAIN Spain has carried out more than 15 million PCRs since the beginning of the epidemic. Diagnostic tests increased by 8%, with a rate of 318.96 per 1,000 inhabitants. The autonomous communities have notified the Ministry of Health that, until November 5 and since the beginning of the pandemic, they have carried out a total of 15,023,294 PCR diagnostic tests. As reported by Health in a press release, in the last week, from October 30 to November 5, a daily average of 184,572 diagnostic and detection tests for covid-19 have been carried out, of which 121,571 are PCR. Specifically, from October 30 to November 5, the autonomous communities have carried out a total of 851,003 PCR, an average of 121,571 per day, and 133,885 antigen tests. In total, since the beginning of the epidemic, 19,394,289 diagnostic and detection tests for COVID-19 (PCR, antigen tests, rapid antibody tests and serological tests for Ab) have been carried out, of which 1,292,007 correspond a week from October 30 to November 5. Thus, the number of diagnostic tests increased by 8%, with a rate of 318.96 per 1,000 inhabitants. On the other hand, together with the diagnostic tests, the autonomous communities have also reported the performance of a total of 2,610,080 rapid antibody tests, which represents a rate of 55.42 per 1,000 inhabitants.

POSITIVE COVID NEWS The manager of Vega Baja says that the area is under control despite the increase in positives. The health workers of the Orihuela centre warn of a "tiredness that leads to irritability", but the coordinator ensures that the hospital is prepared to serve the population and sends a message of "calm" The Orihuela Health Department is one of the most affected in the entire Valencian territory by this second wave of coronavirus. This is stated by Miguel Fayos, manager of the hospital centre of reference in the Department, Hospital Vega Baja. In this area, the growing increase in positives during the last month is a reality that is reflected in the increase in admitted patients who need intensive care. According to the manager, “the events have forced us to implement the Contingency Plan on which we have been working exhaustively since the beginning of the pandemic. It consists of setting up new areas for the care of covid patients, both in ICUs, emergencies and hospitalization units ”. At the same time, it emphasizes the provision of protective material and respirators to face this second phase of the pandemic. Thus, the CSIF union highlights the complicated situation of this department, regretting that the Ministry of Health and Public Health has not created the structural positions that this department needs, “since it is deficient in human resources in all health and non-health categories ».

AEROSOLS BLAMED FOR CONTAGION Contagion by aerosols is the most important route of transmission, according to Spanish scientists. The Ministry of Science and Innovation has commissioned a report from renowned researchers in which they point out "significant evidence" of this route of contagion. The aerosol transmission of the new coronavirus continues to loom in the scientific debate. Ever since a large group of US experts stated that there was "overwhelming evidence" that SARS-CoV-2 was transmitted through the tiny droplets that remain suspended in the air after we sneeze, cough or even talk, many have been studies that have pointed to this pathway as the most plausible explanation for the rapid spread of Covid-19 throughout the world. In fact, the Ministry of Health recommended a few weeks ago the correct ventilation of closed spaces to avoid this type of infection, despite the fact that the World Health Organization refuses to point it out as the most important. Now, a report prepared by renowned Spanish experts -and commissioned by the Ministry of Science and Innovation- comes to further support this theory: there is "significant evidence on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by aerosols" and that this is "the most common form of contagion. The experts Antonio Alcamí, Margarita del Val, Miguel Hernán, Pello Latassa, José Luis Jiménez, Xavier Querol, Ana Robustillo, Gloria Sánchez and Alfonso Valencia sign the document, in which they collect and discuss the evidence for and against contagion by aerosols, ruling in favor of the importance of this pathway: "There is substantial support from the scientific community for the possibility that it is the dominant form of transmission and that it is the most common form of contagion in super-propagation events." In other words, aerosols would be the most important route of contagion and would be to blame for the rapid spread of the pandemic. “When we breathe, talk, yell, cough and sneeze we emit abundant particles: droplets and aerosols. The droplets infect by impact in the eyes, nostrils or mouth, and fall to the ground up to 1-2 meters from the person who emits them. Aerosols infect by inhalation and travel more than 1-2 meters before falling to the ground, "the authors explain, continuing:" Due to their smaller size, the infectivity of the virus present in aerosols can be greater when penetrating deep into the lungs , and could cause a greater severity of the disease Covid-19 ". That is, aerosols not only travel farther than droplets (the droplets that we can see with the naked eye after sneezing or coughing), but also by directly infecting the lung, they can aggravate the disease. Other routes of contagion. In addition to droplets -which affect by direct contact- or aerosols -by inhalation-, the report also includes other transmission routes, many of them also involved in controversy. This is the case of mother-to-child transmission, of which they affirm that "there is no evidence of intrauterine transmission", although fragments of the virus have been found in breast milk, although "no viable virus". It is also noted that there is evidence that people can infect other mammals such as farm dogs, cats and minks, but "the efficacy and frequency of these transmissions is unclear." On the other hand, reference is made to infection from feces and urine, which is considered "limited", since there is only one study that indicates a possible route of transmission. Regarding blood transmission, although SARS-CoV-2 has been found in plasma and has replicated in blood cells, the incidence is "uncertain": "The risk of transmission by this route appears to be low because no cases have been reported by blood transfusion, despite the fact that blood banks do not screen their donors with diagnostic PCR or serology for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 ”. Recommended measures Therefore, Spanish scientists propose outdoor activities, ventilate or filter closed spaces to reduce the transmission by aerosols, as well as "avoid events with a high density of people." All this added to measures in force and already accepted such as the use of masks, hygiene, social distancing, remote work as far as possible and heed the specific recommendations for public transport in cities and long-distance.

BACK TO WORK YOUR NOT SICK Health discharges covid-19 patients without confirming that they no longer have the virus. A woman from Alcoy says that despite demonstrating with a private serology that she is still infected, they have sent her to work. Health is discharging covid-19 patients without confirming if they have stopped having the virus. A woman from Alcoy has denounced that despite showing with a private serology that she was still infected, they have sent her to work. She began to notice general discomfort on October 19, although at no time did she have a fever. After two good days, on the 22nd of the same month she stopped having smell and taste, which led her to suspect that she could be infected. She immediately called her reference health centre in Alcoy, between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., to alert her of the symptoms she presented. The next day, October 23, she went to have the PCR performed and on her return she confined herself to her room, fearing that the result would be positive and to avoid infecting her husband and children. The woman, who prefers to remain anonymous, received a call on Sunday 24 from the health centre confirming her suspicions. "They told me that I had to remain in isolation for 10 days," while they asked her who she had had direct contact with in recent days to also perform PCR.

RECAP Why do they just add to the figures every time to make one massive figure to scare everyone? Why don’t they show this was march and this is now figures? Now you see the Police, if they get signed off on the sick they stay at home on full pay! Only 90%, It only takes one % to kill you never mind 10%! I now know of four friends in their 70’s who had a Flu jab in the last two weeks and are all sick in bed! Yes, it gives you the Flu but also effects people in different ways! So according to Spain 1/3 of Spain has been tested! That’s why there’s more “cases” of coronavirus. Your deodorant will kill you, so put it on outside, is that what they recommend? More patients , probably on full pay, don’t want to go back to work! Honestly where is all this heading!Can I ask anyone who had a flu jab recently, did you get a certificate to say you have had it? Hopefully theres some normal news manaña!

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