• MARTA LAW

    Madrid

  • HUGO GARRIDO

    Madrid

Updated Monday, 4 May 2020 - 12:46

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

The number of positive cases of coronavirus spreads throughout 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 see information on the number of patients with a diagnosis confirmed by Covid-19, the incidence and the date of update of the data for each municipality .

So far, nine autonomous communities have published the information on the number of Covid-19 cases accumulated in each municipality. These are Madrid, Catalonia, Andalusia, the Basque Country, Murcia, Asturias, Cantabria, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands .

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. that details the Ministry of Health and those of the Balearic Islands include suspected but unconfirmed cases.

Among the municipalities with more than 1,000 inhabitants, La Fuliola (Lérida) has the highest incidence rate of the disease: 4,967 positives per 100,000. They are followed by San Llorenç Savall (Barcelona), Mediona (Barcelona), Villanueva del Rey (Córdoba), Bagà (Barcelona), Colmenar del Arroyo (Madrid) and Loiu (Vizcaya), 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 1,239.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Madrid (913.6), Barcelona (833) and Vizcaya (790.1).

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.

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

In Catalonia there are 1,839 positive cases for which the patient's municipality of residence does not appear (3.2% of the total). In addition, this community reports another 136,646 cases that it classifies as "suspicious": people who have presented symptoms and who have been classified as a possible case of covid-19 by a health professional, but who have not undergone a diagnostic test (PCR test). or antibodies) with a positive result.

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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