MADRID (Reuters) – 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.
(Reporting by Graham Keeley; Editing by Alex Richardson)
