Spain’s daily increase of nearly 39,000 confirmed diagnoses is the highest since the outbreak

The Wuhan pneumonia (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19) epidemic ravaged the world, Spain reported 38,869 new confirmed cases and 195 deaths yesterday (13), the highest number of new cases in a single day since the beginning of the epidemic.

According to data from the Spanish Ministry of health, the country reported 38,869 new confirmed cases and 195 deaths yesterday (13), the highest single-day increase since the beginning of the pandemic. The country now has a cumulative total of 2,176,089 confirmed cases and 52,878 deaths.

The report mentioned that since the eve of Christmas, the number of cases hospitalized in Spain has jumped 64%, and the number of cases treated in intensive care units has also increased by 39%, Health Minister Salvador Illa said on the 12th, the data is “very worrying”, “a difficult week has arrived, the situation will be very complicated in January”, medical experts and epidemiologists around the world have called for strengthening preventive measures to control the new wave of infection.