4 Sep, 2020 @ 18:11
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Spain adds more than 10,000 COVID-19 cases Friday

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SPAIN has added 10,476 COVID-19 cases to the running total today, 4,503 of which were diagnosed in the past 24 hours.

It brings the total number of official cases in the country since the pandemic began to 498,989.

Meanwhile the number of deaths this week rose from the 191 recorded by yesterday to 256 today.

It means 64 people have lost their lives to the virus in the past 24 hours.

In the past seven days, there have been 1,946 hospital admissions, with 151 in intensive care.

Meanwhile in Andalucia, some 1,021 cases have been detected by PCR in the past 24 hours, according to the Junta, while seven more people have lost their lives.

The Andalucia Institute of Statistics reports that in the past 14 days, 10,038 cases have been detected in the southernmost region, 4,859 in the past week.

In terms of hospitalisations, there have been 37 in Andalucia in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 604.

The number of patients in the ICU has risen by nine, from 78 to 87, the Junta reported.

A total of 330 people have been hospitalised with the virus in the region this week.

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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