Eight mln people test positive for COVID-19 in Spain - health data
The number of coronavirus infections in Spain since the beginning of the pandemic has risen to 8,093,036. Since Thursday, 162,500 new cases have been registered in the country of 47 million inhabitants, the Health Ministry in Madrid announced on Friday. The seven-day incidence rate of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants rose from 1,482.63 to 1,654.91.
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- Published Date: 09:36 | 14 January 2022
- Modified Date: 11:32 | 14 January 2022
The number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in Spain since the pandemic started in 2020 has reached 8 million, according to Health Ministry data on Friday.
The number of cases increased by 162,500 since Thursday.
Spain's 14-day coronavirus infection rate rose to 3,192 cases per 100,000 on Friday, government data showed, compared with 3,156 cases per 100,000 on Thursday.
The total number of people infected with COVID-19 stood at 8,093,036, while the death toll was 90,759, the data showed.
Since November infections have climbed without interruption, turbo-charged by the Omicron variant's greater transmissibility and large swathes of the population mixing over Christmas, although hospital admissions remain well below those seen in earlier waves.
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