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The Spanish Ministry of Health announced this Monday more than 23,000 new cases of COVID-19 compared to Friday’s report, while in the last seven days there have been 141 more deaths associated with this disease, reports the EFE agency, according to AGERPRES.
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Spain since the start of the pandemic amounts to 462,858, the highest among EU countries.
The rate of new cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days is also the highest in Spain among the EU countries, 205.5 cases. It is followed by France, with 87.9 cases, and Romania, with 72 cases, according to the EFE agency.
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The number of infections is high, admitted this Monday the chief epidemiologist of the Spanish Ministry of Health, Fernando Simón, who, however, attributes these figures to the large number of tests carried out.
He also mentioned that about half of the detected cases are asymptomatic and about 55% of all new infections are in people under 40 years of age.
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