These are the figures for the last 24 hours regarding the situation caused by Covid-19 in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Italy
Italian civil protection revealed today, referring to the last 24 hours, the record of 37,978 new cases of Covid-19, with 636 people killed, the latter number corresponding to an increase compared to Wednesday.
The country passed the milestone of one million cases yesterday, with a total of 1,066,401 infected. The 45,000 deaths caused by Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic have also been surpassed (at this time there are 45,589 fatalities).
Lombardy returned to being the Italian region with the highest number of new cases: in the last 24 hours, it registered more than nine thousand cases, breaking a new record. Piedmont and Campania follow.
Spain
The autonomous communities notified the Ministry of Health, this Wednesday, 19,511 new cases of Covid-19. The global number of infections in Spain has risen to 1,437,220 since the beginning of the pandemic, according to official statistics.
In addition, 536 people with a confirmed diagnosis of Covid-19 died in Spain on the last day. The records indicate 40,641 deaths, victims of Covid-19, since the virus arrived in the country, according to data from the Ministry.
The Madrid community continues to be currently the region most affected by the public health crisis in the country.
United Kingdom
The UK has registered 33,470 new infections, the British Ministry of Health announced today, according to ‘El Pais’. To date, data on deaths have not yet been released.
The cumulative total since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic in the UK is now 1,290,195 contagions confirmed within 28 days after the victims received a positive test.
These figures represent a substantial rise from Wednesday, where the number of new infections had been around 22,000.
Globally, the Covid-19 pandemic has infected more than 52.4 million people in 190 countries and territories, according to Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Additionally, the virus caused 1.2 million fatalities.
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