Spain registers highest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases since March

08:20:00 PM, Saturday 16th of January 2021 | in coronavirus

Spain has confirmed 40,197 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, recording the highest single-day increase in infections since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020, the Ministry of Health said on Friday. The previous record was set earlier this week and amounted to 38,869. The update brings the country's total tally to 2,252,164, with about 160,000 new infections being recorded over the past week.