8 Oct, 2020 @ 16:14
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Spain’s Andalucia detects 1,910 COVID-19 cases Thursday as region ramps up testing and adds rapid tests to figures

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ANDALUCIA has counted 1,910 coronavirus cases on Thursday as it ramps up its testing capabilities.

The figures, which now include both PCR and rapid antigen tests, show Sevilla clocking the most cases with 708 detected in the past 24 hours.

It is followed distantly by Granada with 321, Jaen with 226, Cordoba 198, Malaga 179, Cadiz 118, Almeria 105 and Huelva 55.

Meanwhile there have been 120 people admitted to hospital with coronavirus in Andalucia in the past 24 hours.

Of these, 120 were sent to intensive care units.

A total of 801 people overcame the virus over the same period, according to the Junta.

The southernmost region registered 20 deaths in the past 24 hours.

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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