Despite the fact that the Marina Alta has managed to be one of the regions least affected by the coronavirus; in recent days, the number of confirmed infections has increased.
If on Tuesday we knew that there had been five new positive cases of COVID-19 during the weekend, today Friday, the data reflects a high increase in new positives, specifically, the total number registers 18 new cases being.
Of these new infections, the population that has seen its figure increased has been Dénia with 8 new cases since yesterday. The total registered in the Dianense locality since the beginning of the pandemic is 128 PCR positives, 11 of them in the last 15 days.
Sagra has been the second population that has registered the most infections with 6 new cases. Municipality that had not had any positive since the beginning of the pandemic.
Benissa is the other town in the region that has added two new infections in the last 24 hours, thus accumulating a total of 11 positive cases.
Xaló and Calp are the other two towns that have been affected with a new case in each of them. For Xaló it is the first case registered since this health crisis due to the coronavirus began. In the case of Calp, this new case brings the number of infections to three in the last two weeks, and accumulates a total of 28 infections.
Xàbia, for the moment, according to the data provided by Health, remains with 0 infections, having registered a total of 12 cases since the pandemic began.
With these new cases, the total number of infections in the Marina Alta rises to 224, with 25 cases arising in the last 15 days.
In deaths, the figure remains at 19, not registering deaths from COVID-19 since April 28 in this region.
