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Fernando Simón, director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, appears this Thursday to assess the epidemiological situation in Spain in a week in which the opening of the school year is taking center stage. Today, the Minister of Education, Isabel Celaá, has positively valued the start: “We have 28,600 centers. Communities enter in a staggered manner, as is reasonable. Until yesterday [Wednesday] we had incidents in 53 centers ”. Congress has rejected this Thursday the regulations that would have allowed the State to use the remnants from the surplus of the municipalities. Aragon and Murcia have decreed the isolation of the populations of Andorra and Jumilla respectively due to the increase in cases. The World Health Organization (WHO) has assured this Thursday that 35,000 million dollars (about 30,000 million euros) are needed to accelerate diagnoses, treatments and vaccines against the coronavirus. This has been considered by its director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has called for greater funding of the Accelerator of Access to Tools against covid promoted by the WHO itself, France, the European Commission and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Michael J. Ryan, executive director of the WHO, recalled that we are not facing "a race between companies or between countries, it is a race against the virus and time." The pandemic leaves 27.9 million infections in the world and more than 904,000 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.