Spain exceeds 100,000 official deaths since the start of the pandemic

Spain has surpassed the barrier of 100,000 deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This Wednesday in its daily report, the Ministry of Health has notified 154 new deaths, which has raised the official number of deaths with coronavirus to 100,037. A figure that does not take into account all the people who died without an analytical test -especially at the beginning of the pandemic-, who died with “suspicious covid”, and those who were not notified by the autonomous communities to Health. Still, nearly one in three deaths occurred during the first wave. None of the subsequent waves has reached as many deaths as in that period. Below we visualize the deadly cost of the pandemic in our country, from the first recorded death to the present.

This is Fernando, the first confirmed deceased with coronavirus in Spain. Valenciano, 69, died in hospital on February 13, 2020 after traveling to Nepal.

In addition to Fernando, more than 100,000 people have died with confirmed Covid-19 since then. Each silhouette represents one of these fatal victims of the pandemic in Spain, according to the month in which they died.

How much does 100,000 people represent? There are some municipalities in Spain that allow us to put this figure in context. If all coronavirus deaths in the country had occurred in any of these locations, entire cities would have been empty.

This article displays the deaths with confirmed Covid-19 proof, month by month, as recorded in the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) database. Until the time of publication, these statistics detailed the date of death of 99,007 people, so the remaining thousand have been added, until reaching the number of deaths published by the Ministry of Health, as of February 2022 Some of these deaths could correspond to previous months due to the delay in notification.

The names of the people who died in the first wave have been obtained from various pages of memorials in tribute to people who lost their lives due to the coronavirus (RTVE, The world, The Spanish). For the following months, a selection of the most common names among those over 60 years of age, who represent 90% of deaths from Covid-19, has been used, and they have been crossed with those of the obituaries published each month by La Nueva. Spain, La Vanguardia and El Correo, scraped by this newspaper.

For the silhouettes we have used the WeePeople Typography and for the maps of the cities, the cartographic archives of the Cadastre.