Deaths related to coronavirus by region Spain 2020

The number of cases of the coronavirus disease that originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan (COVID-19) in Spain amounted to 228 thousand as of May 12, 2020. Since Spain confirmed its first case, the authorities have confirmed over 26 thousand deaths as a result of complications from coronavirus, most of them registered in the autonomous community of the Spanish capital Madrid with 8.7 thousand.
As of the same date, the number of recoveries Spain registered was significantly higher than that of deaths, with over 128 thousand patients that were able to regain their health.
The impact of the outbreak of this disease was such that the global stock markets were affected. The Spanish IBEX-35 was no exception to that, decreasing by 2500 stock market points during the first days of March.

COVID-19: background information

COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus that had not previously been identified in humans. The first case was detected in the Hubei province of China at the end of December 2019. Thousands of new cases are being reported each day, and because the illness has only recently been detected, it is not known exactly how the virus is spreading from person to person. However, the outbreak of the SARS coronavirus, which began in 2002, is thought to have spread via cough and sneeze droplets.