Spain reports largest increase in new infections in more than a week

This jump brought the country’s total active cases to 88,201. The setback follows more positive news earlier in the week.

On Tuesday, Spain saw its first-ever decrease in active cases, as the numbers of deaths and recovered people outnumbered new diagnoses.

Spanish health officials have previously cautioned that numbers are higher on days following a weekend or a public holiday, such as Easter Monday.

The country registered 523 deaths from coronavirus in the past 24 hours. This is one of the lowest increases in the past three weeks, and the lowest percentage increase, at 2.9%, since the first week of March.

Spain’s total death toll is now 18,579, with a total of 177,633 confirmed cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.