21 Aug, 2020 @ 13:02
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BREAKING: Spain’s Andalucia sees 707 new COVID-19 cases and 5 deaths in 24 hours in worst figures since March 30

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ANDALUCIA has seen a large jump in coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours in its worst set of data since the height of the pandemic.

The southernmost region has counted 707 new cases confirmed by PCR between Thursday and Friday.

It is the highest daily count since March 30, when 723 cases were counted in a single day, according to figures from the Andalucia Institute of Statistics and Cartography (IECA).

On a provincial level, Malaga has seen the most cases today, with 219, followed by Almeria with 123, Sevilla (97), Cordoba (79), Cadiz (66), Granada (64), Jaen (39) and Huelva (20).

Meanwhile, two more patients have been added to the ICU in the past 24 hours.

More to follow…

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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