The Spanish health authorities acknowledged Monday, August 10 that they were not able to " perfectly " control the contagion of the coronavirus while Spain recorded in two weeks the highest increase in cases detected among the large countries of Western Europe.
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The death toll has increased significantly with 65 deaths recorded over the past seven days, more than half of which in Aragon, a region in the northeast of the country, according to the health ministry report published on Monday. Spain knows a community transmission (that is to say that we can not go back to the origin of the case) " which is not perfectly controlled but which is gradually diminishing ", the epidemiologist assessed on Monday. in chief of the Ministry of Health, Fernando Simon.
The number of carriers of the new coronavirus diagnosed has increased by nearly 60% in the past seven days in the country, according to a calculation made by AFP from official data. The average has risen to 90 per 100,000 inhabitants in the past two weeks, while the figure is 27 in France, 17 in the United Kingdom, 13 in Germany and 7 in Italy, the European country where the pandemic is occurring. was first declared.
The most affected regions are Catalonia and Aragon
The most affected regions are Catalonia (northeast) and neighboring Aragon, the latter region being the most worrying with the highest rate of cases in the country, 240 per 100,000 inhabitants. However, Catalonia " is already in a phase of control " while the number of cases in Aragon " is stabilizing in a large part of the territory ", assured Dr Simon.
These renewed contagion have led these two regions to decree partial confinements. Catalonia has launched an intense testing campaign in some of the worst affected areas. Aragon is preparing to send the police to check if the people tested positive respect the quarantine imposed on them.
Spain had experienced strict confinement from mid-March to June 21, but the government rules out the possibility of reinstating this state of exception. The country remains one of the most affected by the pandemic in Europe with a total of 322,980 cases and 28,576 deaths recorded on Monday. More and more European countries are imposing a quarantine on travelers returning from Spain, while others such as France and Belgium have advised against traveling to the most risky regions of this tourist country.