Local update on Coronavirus cases

As at 23 march, At last some local news on the virus, and relatively hopeful news in that the health authority seems confident it is coping.

https://www.diarioinformacion.com/vega- ... 48201.html

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"Torrevieja Health Department currently registers around 70 confirmed cases of coronavirus among those infected with mild symptoms, who are passing the disease isolated in their homes, admitted and patients in the ICU, according to sources close to the health center. This figure was half a hundred last Thursday.

The Generalitat Valenciana and the management of Ribera Salud of the department's concession refuse to provide official data on the impact of the pandemic on the Vega Baja coast. The concessionaire assures that it does not provide figures by order of the Generalitat.

The situation at the moment is not one of care pressure that exceeds the capacity of the University Hospital of Torrevieja, which has more than two hundred individual beds - and in an exceptional situation it could double part, although the need for isolation limits this possibility."