Coronavirus in Spain figures (28 Sept)

Report below updated in Spain at 19.30h on Mon 28 Sept

CORONAVIRUS in SPAIN – latest Health Ministry figures

The latest official figure* released by the Spanish Health Ministry on Monday 28 September for the number of people who have tested positive for Coronavirus (Covid-19) is now 748,266. This is an overall increase of 31,785 against the figure released on Friday – although the ministry claims that 2,425 of these infections have occurred in the past 24 hours.

The ministry is still verifying and updating historical data (please also see discrepancies in figures* below). It has also not been updating any figures during the weekends since Friday 3 July.

There have now been 136,491 cases of Coronavirus detected in the past 14 days – out of the total 748,266. The figure for infections detected in the past 7 days is 58,361.

Figures released today also show that 2,249 people have required hospital treatment in the past 7 days, with 163 in intensive care.

The official figures* for the total number of Coronavirus-related deaths on Monday 28 September is now 31,411 – an increase of 179 since Friday. According to the ministry, it is a total of 359 deaths in the past 7 days.

The current known peak of recorded deaths related to Coronavirus in a 24-hour period in Spain was on 2 April, when 950 deaths were registered.

Increase in infections

Figures released on Friday had shown an overall increase of 12,272 infections against Thursday’s figures – with the ministry stating that 4,122 had occurred in a 24 hour period.

Thursday had seen an overall increase of 10,653 infections against Wednesday – yet 3,471 in a 24 hour period.

The current peak of recorded infections for a 24-hour period in Spain was on 31 March, when 9,222 new cases were registered.

When Spain imposed its ‘state of alarm’ from Saturday 14 March, the Health Ministry had confirmed 4,231 known cases of Coronavirus at the time (figures from Friday 13 March), with 121 deaths. By Monday 16 March, there had been a further 4,960 infections. The total death toll on 16 March had increased to 309.

Of the 2,425 new infections registered in the past 24 hours by the Health Ministry on Monday 28 September, the numbers per region are as follows:

451 in Madrid (51,650 new cases in past 14 days)
388 in Aragón (4,881)
338 in the Basque Country (5,943)
268 in Andalusia (13,567)
258 in Navarra (4,470)
151 in the Canary Islands (2,359)
99 in Extremadura (3,082)
97 in Galicia (3,066)
89 in Catalonia (13,156)
67 in La Rioja (1,422)
64 in Asturias (1,225)
36 in Castilla y León (9,221)
29 in Castilla La Mancha (8,200)
25 in Cantabria (917)
15 in the Balearic Islands (1,957)
10 in Murcia (5,847)
4 in the Valencia Region (5,060)
31 in Melilla (313)
5 in Ceuta (155)

A full breakdown of the data per region, together with age group statistics can be found by clicking here.

Citizens in Barcelona enjoying this year’s La Mercè celebrations. (Edu Bayer)

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Updated report here: Health Minister recommends confinement for all Madrid – but partial lockdown extended to 8 other areas.

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On Friday 14 August Spain announced strict new measures on nightlife across the whole country – as well as a ban on smoking outside, where social distancing cannot be maintained – in a further attempt to stop the spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19). Each region of Spain has since imposed the restrictions following their own timetable – and some regions have made restrictions even tighter. Read about the initial measures here: Spain imposes strict new measures on nightlife across the country

*Discrepancies in figures

Although the Health Ministry updated its official Coronavirus mortality figures on 19 June following on-going discrepancies with the data released by some of the country’s regional health authorities – there are still huge differences in the ‘excess mortality’ figures published for Spain.

Click here for full report: Spain’s ‘excess mortality’ during Coronavirus pandemic is over 43,000

Spain’s National Statistics Institute (INE) published figures showing that the number of deaths for the first 21 weeks of 2020 were 24% higher than for the same period in 2019 – based on information received from the country’s civil registries (1 January to 24 May). The number of deaths during this period for 2020 was 43,945 higher than in 2019.