Spain registers 849 new deaths from coronavirus, daily record

Total deaths related to Covid-19 in the country rose to 8,189, and the number of diagnosed cases exceeds 94,400

The number of daily deaths from the coronavirus in Spain rose again on Tuesday, after a slight drop the day before, with 849 victims in 24 hours, a record since the beginning of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health announced.

The total number of deaths in the country rose to 8,189, and the number of diagnosed cases exceeds 94,400, with 9,222 infections detected in the last 24 hours, which also represents the highest number in one day since the beginning of the crisis.

Spain is the second country, after Italy, with more deaths caused by the disease, which has led the government to determine the confinement of the almost 47 million inhabitants since March 14 and to order, on the 29th, the stoppage for two weeks of all “non-essential” economic activities..

In percentage terms, which the Spanish authorities have established as indicators of the evolution of the pandemic, the growth in mortality continues to slow gradually, from +12.4 to + 11.6% daily, but the rate of contagions rose for the first time in six days. , from +8.1 to + 10.8%.

“The general trend remains,” said Dr. María José Sierra, of the Sanitary Emergency Center, who attributed the acceleration to Monday’s accumulation of unreported cases over the weekend.

The recovered patients also registered an increase, from 16,780 to 19,259, according to figures from the Ministry of Health.

Madrid is the region most affected by the pandemic, with 44% of cases, but Catalonia registers a strong increase and already has more patients admitted to the ICU than the capital.