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The Ministry of Health has notified 12,183 new infected this Friday and has added 48 deaths to the official count. In total, 566,326 people have been infected and 29,747 have died since the start of the pandemic, according to data provided by Health. The minister, Salvador Illa, rules out that the ability to carry out PCR tests is compromised at the moment in Spain by the second wave of the pandemic. “There is a significant increase in CRP. I think there is no collapse. There are days when we have done 100,000 PCRs in Spain, early detection is working well, ”explained Illa on TVE. Asked about the statement he made on Monday about the ability to start administering the Oxford vaccine in December, after learning that the study has been stopped until it is explained whether a participant's disease was derived from the drug, Illa has commented: “Neither between the autonomous communities of Spain nor between the nations of Europe there will be a race for vaccines ”. Andalusia has registered a new daily record of coronavirus cases confirmed by PCR this Friday, with a total of 1,242 in 24 hours, the highest number since the start of the pandemic. In Murcia, 60 patients admitted to the ICU were counted this Friday, a figure higher than that which was in the region during the entire state of alarm. In Portugal, 687 people have been infected in 24 hours, a new daily maximum in the last five months. The pandemic leaves 28.1 million infections worldwide and more than 909,000 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.