The number of new cases of COVID-19 has further increased significantly in Spain, according to the report published on Friday by the Ministry of Health, to average more than 2,000 per day over the last seven days.
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According to this report, the number of cases diagnosed the day before the publication of the report stands at 1,525, a figure which has continued to increase in recent weeks and which was below 1,000 last Friday.
Over the past seven days, the number of diagnosed cases has reached 14,198, an average of more than 2,000 per day.
The difference between these two figures is due to the notification of part of the cases sometimes several days after the diagnosis by the regions, competent in health matters, to the ministry.
The most affected regions remain Catalonia with more than 5,000 cases in seven days and Aragon (2,884), but the rebound is also increasing in the region of Madrid (2074).
For comparison, the number of new cases diagnosed in the past seven days stood at 5,695 two weeks ago.
In total, Spain has more than 288,000 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the epidemic and more than 28,400 deaths.
Despite this rebound in cases, the authorities assure that this is not a second wave.
“I don’t know if there will be any new waves in the future. It does not appear to me to be the case. If that were the case, we would be in a very different situation from the one we are currently experiencing, ”the chief epidemiologist of the Ministry of Health, Fernando Simon, said on Thursday.
But Spain’s European neighbors are worried and Germany on Friday classified the regions of Aragon, Catalonia and Navarre as areas at risk, which implies a quarantine for returning travelers, unless they present a negative test.
France has advised its nationals not to travel to Catalonia while the United Kingdom reimposed a two-week quarantine on Sunday for travelers returning from Spain.
These measures have serious consequences for the second largest tourist destination in the world, where both Britons and Germans are among the largest contingents of tourists.