A deadly fire broke out last night in a care home for the elderly in the Valencian town of Moncada (L'Horta). It has left a balance of six deaths, aged between 67 and 95, and 15 people injured of varying degrees after the flames destroyed an entire wing of the nursing home.

It was the night of December 31 when the medical director of the Hospital de Olot, Jaume Heredia, received an urgent call from those responsible for the center. They had detected that two professionals working in the covid unit had tested positive and that there were two non-covid patients with symptoms. "All the alarms went off: in six months we had had virtually no cases of transmission and, suddenly, two workers and two patients had been infected", Heredia recalls, who explains that they followed the protocol and made a screening throughout the hospital. The result: ten patients and three professionals infected, which increased the following days to seventeen patients and eleven workers.