29 Oct, 2020 @ 14:04
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BREAKING: Spain’s Andalucia records over 5,200 COVID-19 cases in one day

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ANDALUCIA has detected 5,202 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the Junta has announced.

The figure, taken from PCR and antibody tests, is a daily record for the southernmost region during the second wave.

Granada is the province with the most, counting 1,328 cases Thursday.

It is followed closely by Sevilla with 1,220, then Cordoba with 649, Jaen 566, Cadiz 520, Malaga 339, Almeria 299 and Huelva 227.

Andalucia now has a coronavirus incidence rate of 396.33 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (below the national average of 452).

A total of 1,599 people overcame the virus in Andalucia in the past 24 hours.

It comes as the region has closed its external borders and its hardest hit provinces and municipalities.

Sevilla, Granada and Jaen will remain closed off from midnight tonight and until November 9.

As will a total of 449 municipalities spread across the aforementioned provinces and Malaga and Cordoba.

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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