The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, has underlined the good development of the State Vaccination Strategy against SARS-CoV-2, with more than 81.6 million administered doses, almost 90% of the population over 12 years old with complete regimen, about 10 million booster doses inoculated and the Paediatric Vaccination Campaign underway. Carolina Darias has reaffirmed the determination …
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With the Accumulated Incidence and the number of cases once again in decline, and with the vaccination rate about to be ramped up, experts are saying that we must be cautious and that restrictions should only be removed gradually if we are to look forward to any kind of summer.
They warn that we must not make the same mistakes that we did after Christmas by opening everything up far too quickly.
Our Health and Beauty section looks at the herbs that may help those of us who suffer from forgetfulness and popular columnist Bernie Comaskey explores how the pub plays such a major part in all aspects of Irish life.
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Puig calls for mobility to be limited over Easter
With Easter a little over 5 weeks away we are hoping that the various levels of government have all learnt their lessons regarding freedom of movement during the holiday period, after the absolute carnage that we saw following the Christmas and the Three Kings breaks.
With the general public at liberty to travel at will, there is no doubt that the dramatic spread of coronavirus we saw during January was largely attributable, particularly in the southern Costa Blanca and Costa Calida, to the mass exodus of city dwellers to the coast. It is only now that we are beginning to see a drop in the number of infections following many weeks in which the pandemic has had the upper hand.
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Record numbers of infections in the Community:
Figures released on Tuesday show 3,590 new infections and 60 deaths from covid in the previous 24 hours
In Valencian hospitals there are 1,746 people being treated for Covid-19 on wards as ICU admissions rise to 278
The Valencian Community has registered 3,590 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the current number of active cases to 18,606, which represents 12.05% of the total positives.
By province, 412 new cases have been registered in Castellón, 846 in Alicante and 2,332 in the province of Valencia.
In addition, 54 new outbreaks have been registered in Castellón, Ayora, Càlig, Utiel, Paiporta, Denia, Forcall, Vinaròs, Valencia, Llíria, Callosa de Segura, Beicarló, Cullera, La Romana, Silla, Carcaixent, Alfafar, Calp, Albalat dels Sorells , Albatera, Los Montesinos, Peñíscola, Alcoi, Tavernes Blanques, Castalla, Almàssera, Teulada, Elche, El Campello, Benaguasil and Jávea.