First COVID-19 death in Malaga province since June 9 reported in Benalmadena

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A PERSON who died in Benalmadena is the first COVID-19 fatality in Malaga province since June 9.

It was one of two deaths reported today (August 13) in the Andalucia region.

In total, 290 deaths have been blamed on coronavirus in Malaga province out of the 1,459 recorded across the whole region since the start of the crisis.

Malaga province has reported just 100 new infections in the past 24 hours, including 40 in Marbella and 32 in Malaga city.

Estepona has had seven new cases, Mijas five, Velez-Malaga three, Benalmadena, Manilva and Alhaurin el Grande two each, with Torremolinos, Fuengirola, Benahavis, Alhaurin de la Torre, Ronda, Nerja and Torrox seeing one new case each.

In the past 24 hours just three people in Malaga province have been reported as cured.

In total, the number of active cases in the province stands at 1,605 people, with Marbella (752) and Malaga city (602) the main centres of infection.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.