The corona fears are becoming real: Spain groans under the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Tent clinics are already being set up in one city.
- Coronavirus pandemic * : The second wave is rolling in Spain .
- Seven provinces have partly significantly exceeded the 7-day incidence of corona cases - including the Balearic Islands with Mallorca and Ibiza * .
- The number of new Covid 19 infections * and cases is increasing dramatically.
Munich / Madrid - What worries Spain doesn't have at the moment. Old King Juan Carlos has to go into exile because of serious allegations of corruption, the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic * has only just been overcome (with many deaths), when the second wave is already breaking over the 47 million population.
Corona pandemic in Spain: Catalonia, Navarra, Aragón, the Basque Country and Madrid as risk areas
The tourism industry on Mallorca and the other Balearic islands makes no secret of the concern of being declared a corona risk area in this mixed situation. The following regions are already on the list of coronavirus risk areas : Catalonia (with Barcelona) , Navarra, Aragón, the Basque Country and the capital Madrid .
The situation in Aragón is particularly critical: In the provincial capital of Saragossa , soldiers have set up a mobile field hospital around the university hospital, and the Red Cross has set up an infirmary in a hall.
The worries can be read in numbers in Aragón : the 7-day incidence as of August 12 was a whopping 254.
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- CofaceDeutschland (@CofaceGermany) August 12, 2020Coronavirus in Spain: Mallorca and Ibiza not (yet) declared to be corona risk areas
To classify: Germany declares regions with a 7-day incidence of 50 infected people per 100,000 inhabitants as Covid 19 risk areas . On the holiday islands of Mallorca and Ibiza , the critical corona value has long been exceeded with a 7-day incidence of 67; in Madrid it is 81.
Seven Spanish regions have already passed the 50 mark, five have so far been declared risk areas by the Foreign Office. In the whole of Spain, the 7-day incidence was most recently 50.7 per 100,000 population. But: While entire (smaller) countries in the Balkans are classified as corona risk areas , this does not happen with Spain .
Coronavirus pandemic: Spain groans under the coronavirus
The Covid-19 situation across the country is more than alarming. According to surveys by Johns Hopkins University, the registered corona cases rose on Wednesday, August 12, within a few hours between 4.13 p.m. and 10:33 p.m. at 3172 - from 326,612 previously to 329,784. The already cured people not withdrawn.
Saragossa is fighting Corona: soldiers install modules in the parking lot of the Hospital Clinico Universitario in Saragossa.
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For comparison: In Italy the number of reported cases increased by 476 over the same period. Different countries have different reporting systems - nevertheless: Spain is groaning under the second Corona wave and has long since made no secret of it.
Corona crisis in Spain: travel warning for the Balearic Islands threatens
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez prepared his country after talks with King Felipe VI. suggests decisive times: “We have talked about the social problems and the economic ones that this situation creates. This of course affects some economic sectors in parts of our country in particular: the Balearic and Canary Islands . "
A future travel warning cannot be ruled out here either. The trade expert Coface already expects an increase in insolvencies by 22 percent for 2021. The second wave is rolling - between the Balearic Islands and the Basque Country, between Barcelona and Seville. Health and economic. (pm) * Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network
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