COVID-19 hospital case distribution by age group in Spain April 2020
The coronavirus that originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan and spread to all Spanish regions mostly affected those aged 70-79 years, according to the most recent data. Some 23 percent of people hospitalized due to coronavirus coronavirus in Spain were aged in that age range. About 21 percent of those that contracted the COVID-19 aged 90 or over died from the complications caused by this virus during the same period. As of April 29, the number of people affected by this coronavirus in Spain was over 212 thousand. Madrid, the Spanish capital and the region with the highest number of cases, had a transmission rate of 912 cases every 100 thousand people as of the same date.
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.
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.
