• HUGO GARRIDO

    Madrid

  • MARTA LAW

    Madrid

Updated Monday, April 27, 2020 - 15:47

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  • Covid-19. Coronavirus in Spain today, live breaking news

The number of positive cases of coronavirus covers the entire geography of the country, but in some areas of Spain the virus has hit harder, with incidence rates well above the national average. Click or hover over the interactive map to view information on the number of patients with a confirmed diagnosis of coronavirus, incidence, and date of data update.

So far, nine autonomous communities have published the information on the number of Covid-19 cases accumulated in each municipality. These are Madrid, Catalonia, the Basque Country, Murcia, Asturias, Cantabria, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands . Andalusia has joined this Monday the list of regions that publish their data with this level of breakdown.

The municipal information available, from 2,545 municipalities where 67% of the Spanish population lives, represents about 70% of the diagnosed cases, although the data for Andalusia include positives through rapid tests and not only those known by PCR tests. detailed by the Ministry of Health.

Among the municipalities with more than 1,000 inhabitants, San Llorenç Savall (Barcelona) has the highest incidence rate of the disease: 4,298 positives per 100,000. They are followed by La Fuliola (Lérida), Mediona (Barcelona), Villanueva del Rey (Córdoba) and Bagà (Barcelona), with rates exceeding 3,000 cases for every 100,000 residents.

At the province level, among those with available information, Álava is the one that shows the highest incidence rate with respect to its population, with 1,057 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Madrid (871.9), Barcelona (703.2) and Vizcaya (694.7).

Only Huelva, Almería and Las Palmas have an incidence below 100 positives per 100,000 inhabitants.

Other territories offer geographic data on the incidence of the coronavirus in each health area, but not at the municipal level.

On March 31, the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa , responded in a letter to a question asked by the Ministry of Health and Families of the Andalusian Government. In it, he indicated that the publication of data at the municipal level "could create social effects that complicate the management of the crisis," which is why the ministry considered that the dissemination at the provincial level is "sufficiently informative."

The President of the Andalusian Government, Juanma Moreno , assured on Sunday that Andalusia "is prepared to face the reopening process that the single command establishes, whether by provinces, health districts or municipalities." According to published data, up to 270 Andalusian municipalities have not diagnosed any cases through a PCR test or a rapid test.

There is no information on the number of cases or incidence for those localities with less than five cases in Madrid and Murcia.

Methodology: how this information is done

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  • The interactive coronavirus infection map includes data on the number of confirmed cases, the rate of infection per 100,000 inhabitants at the municipal level for those territories that provide the data at the local level.
  • The information comes from the official pages or open data portals of each autonomous community.
  • The interactive will be updated with the publication of new data and new communities will be incorporated as they disseminate the information at this level of detail.
  • To calculate the incidence rate per 100,000 inhabitants, the data from the municipal registry, published by the INE, as of January 1, 2019 have been used.

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