1. The day of the Spain's official state homage to the victims of coronavirus has arrived. How many official dead will there be at the end, when the time comes? You can watch the event live here: https://www.rtve.es/directo/la-1/
3. TVE journalist Ana Blanco reads the introduction. Spain's former Prime Ministers are present. Abascal retweets himself: “Vox will not attend any tribute turned into a ceremony to remove blame from the government.”
5. King of Spain offers a white flower for coronavirus victims at the burning flame in the centre of the tribute. Somebody has chosen Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings as the sad music.
7. Is that it? About 45 minutes. One state minute for every 1,000 dead in the MoMo. Flowers, the flame, the minute of silence, a short poem, a few words from the King, words from a nurse, words from a relative and a TV presenter as master of ceremonies.
9. Sánchez and Igleisas were incapable of going to the funeral mass in the cathedral and now Abascal and Vox have been incapable of going to the tribute ceremony at the Royal Palace. Is this normal?
10. Aragon regional government orders 92,700 minks killed because of a coronavirus outbreak on the farm: “they will be slaughtered with gas and destroyed in a waste plant,” reports Heraldo. https://bit.ly/3eAlRbq
12. BREAK Catalonia: regional government announces largest daily increase in coronavirus cases since May 1. Today's figure is 1,293. Trends rising rapidly.
14. Nationally in Spain, cases with symptoms starting in the last 14 days have quadrupled since the end of the state of alarm on June 21 (x 4.13): from 740 to 3,054. Total cases at 14 days have doubled (x 2.19): from 3,801 to 8,313.
15. All versions of “recent” are rising in the Health Ministry pdf. 3,054 cases with symptoms in the last 14 days, 1,023 cases with symptoms in the last 7 days and 580 cases “the day before”. All Health Ministry data, all going up.
16. Daily change in main numbers in the Health Ministry pdf: 7 and 14 days, total cases and onset of symptoms. All going up after the end of the state of alarm.
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