10 Sep, 2020 @ 16:18
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Spain’s Andalucia registers almost 1,000 COVID-19 cases Thursday while Malaga records deadliest day this summer

Anda Numbers Thursday

ANDALUCIA has added 977 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, new figures from the Junta show.

It is a jump from the less than 800 recorded yesterday, while Malaga has returned to being the most affected province.

The home of the Costa del Sol recorded 292 cases on Thursday, followed by Sevilla with 175, Almeria (156), Cadiz (119), Jaen (91), Granada (76) and Huelva (8).

Meanwhile a total of 213 people have overcome the diseases since yesterday.

According to the Junta, 98 more people have been hospitalised due to coronavirus while 10 more patients have been admitted into intensive care.

Thursday also saw 16 people lose their lives to COVID-19 across the region.

Almost half of those, seven, took place in Malaga, representing the province’s deadliest day this summer.

Three other deaths occurred in Almeria, one in Cadiz and Granada, and two in both Jaen and Sevilla.

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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