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The Ministry of Health has distributed a document, agreed among the majority of the autonomous communities – with the abstention of the Community of Madrid and the Basque Country – in which four alert levels are established with specific numerical thresholds set based on key indicators for control of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. Most of the regions are currently in the worst situation within these levels, with up to 15 territories (Andalusia, Aragón, Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Catalonia, Ceuta, the Valencian Community, Extremadura, the Community Madrid,...

The second wave of the coronavirus epidemic in Spain , which already exceeds one million infections and 41,000 deaths, continues to increase the pressure on hospital care , so that 32.04% of the beds available for intensive care (ICU) are already occupied by COVID-19 patients . According to the latest document sent by the Ministry of Health , which establishes common criteria for all the communities, at least 13 -Andalucía, Aragón, Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, Extremadura, the Community of Madrid, Navarra, the Basque Country ...

Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government defends “herd immunity” policy in the Lancet Lancet defending his government’s politically criminal handling of the pandemic. The signatories included Simón, the director of the Centre for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES), his deputy María José Sierra Moros, and 11 other signatories from the CCAES. The letter bemoans the fact that an “earlier start to the second COVID-19 epidemic wave in Spain compared with other European countries has raised overt criticism [of the] public health administrations’ response.” It seeks to...

Spain’s Podemos deliberately downplayed COVID-19 danger starting in January Revelations from the conservative daily ABC confirm that Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE)–Podemos government knew about the deadly implications of COVID-19 by late January. In the following month and a half, while it downplayed the risks posed by the pandemic, the Ministry of Defence busily procured, evaluated and contracted the latest military-grade personal protective equipment (PPE) for the army. At least four major contracts were signed in this period. Last September, the WSWS noted that well-known journalist...

Several regions of Spain on Wednesday announced new coronavirus measures ahead of the Christmas holidays. The government of the Balearic Islands said that the curfew is being pushed forward to 10pm due to a surge in infections. The 14-day cumulative number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the Mediterranean archipelago is 260, up from 223 a week ago. Andalusian officials announced that existing restrictions on mobility and social gatherings will remain in place until December 12, at which time a new announcement will be made regarding new measures “to keep the situation under control d...