Spain’s New Coronavirus Cases Rise to Highest in Four Months

Residents wearing protective face masks queue outside a mass coronavirus screening facility in the Sant Ildefons district of Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez rejected calls for a new national lockdown as the nation reemerges as the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe. Photographer: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg , Bloomberg

Rodrigo Orihuela, Bloomberg News

Sep 4, 2020

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(Bloomberg) -- Spain’s daily coronavirus infections rose to the highest in about four months, as the country struggles to control new outbreaks.

There were 4,503 new cases in the past 24 hours compared with 3,607 on Thursday, the Health Ministry said Friday. That was the highest since April 23, when 4,635 infections were recorded.

Spain has more cases per capita than any other European country. Infections have climbed since mid-July, as restrictions loosened and people grow weary of social distancing and hygiene guidelines. With schools preparing to open across the nation in coming weeks, concerns are mounting that events could spiral out of control.

Still, the situation isn’t comparable with March and April, when the nation was among the hardest hit in the world.

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