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Spain reports its lowest daily Covid-19 death toll in more than six weeks

Spain has registered 164 deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, the lowest daily increase since March 18th and the beginning of the state of emergency.

Published: 3 May 2020 12:39 CEST
Spain reports its lowest daily Covid-19 death toll in more than six weeks
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Sunday's reported Covid-19 fatalities in Spain were 112 fewer than Saturday's figure. 

It is also the lowest daily increase since March 18th when 107 deaths were recorded ,but the ministry's emergencies coordinator Fernando Simon said the figure had to be interpreted with “caution” as it comes on a long holiday weekend when reporting of fatalities by hospitals is usually slower.

“The figures are very good and confirm the trend we have observed. We have to see if they are consolidated in the coming days,” he told a news conference.

The country's total coronavirus death toll now stands at 25,264.

As of Sunday May 3rd, Spain had had 217,466 confirmed cases.

Another reassuring figure is the number of confirmed recoveries, which on Sunday was double that of new cases – 1,645 compared to 838.

Spain's number of recovered patients now stands at 118,902.

The news comes the day after Spaniards were allowed to go out for walks and to exercise for the first time after 48 days of home confinement.

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Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

Sweden's Public Health Agency is recommending that those above the age of 80 should receive two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn, as it shifts towards a longer-term strategy for the virus.

Published: 23 December 2022 10:53 CET
Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

In a new recommendation, the agency said that those living in elderly care centres, and those above the age of 80 should from March 1st receive two vaccinations a year, with a six month gap between doses. 

“Elderly people develop a somewhat worse immune defence after vaccination and immunity wanes faster than among young and healthy people,” the agency said. “That means that elderly people have a greater need of booster doses than younger ones. The Swedish Public Health Agency considers, based on the current knowledge, that it will be important even going into the future to have booster doses for the elderly and people in risk groups.” 

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People between the ages of 65 and 79 years old and young people with risk factors, such as obesity, diabetes, poor kidney function or high blood pressure, are recommended to take one additional dose per year.

The new vaccination recommendation, which will start to apply from March 1st next year, is only for 2023, Johanna Rubin, the investigator in the agency’s vaccination programme unit, explained. 

She said too much was still unclear about how long protection from vaccination lasted to institute a permanent programme.

“This recommendation applies to 2023. There is not really an abundance of data on how long protection lasts after a booster dose, of course, but this is what we can say for now,” she told the TT newswire. 

It was likely, however, that elderly people would end up being given an annual dose to protect them from any new variants, as has long been the case with influenza.

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