With this guide, we present day by day the latest news on the evolution of the coronavirus in Alicante. This way you will have a global idea of the most important events.
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Saturday 25.04.2020
- 1% increase = 42 new cases, total 3756.
- 5 new deceased = 432 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
The head of Health in our community ensures that, after the good results, we meet the requirements to lead the de-escalation.
Source: Information
Friday 24.04.2020
- 1% increase = 48 new cases, total 3714.
- 3 new deceased = 427 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Thursday 23.04.2020
- 0.94% increase = 34 new cases, total 3666.
- 10 new deceased = 424 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Our pilgrimage to the Holy Face is celebrated on the day of today, the second most crowded in Spain, which was canceled due to the coronavirus.
Pilgrimage of the Holy Face at the height of Denia avenue. [/ caption ]
Wednesday 22.04.2020
- Increase 1% = 38 new cases, total 3632.
- 6 new deceased = 414 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Tuesday 21.04.2020
The evolution of the coronavirus in Alicante – Today’s latest news is very hopeful:
- 0.48% increase = 17 new cases, total 3594.
- 7 new deceased = 408 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Finishing the works of the campaign hospital in the General of Alicante. [/ Caption]
Monday 20.04.2020
- Increase 0.82% = 29 new cases, total 3577.
- 5 new deceased = 401 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Sunday 19.04.2020
- 1% increase = 40 new cases, total 3548.
- 8 new deceased = 396 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Saturday 18.04.2020
- 0.9% increase = 32 new cases, total 3508.
- 8 new deceased = 388 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Children will be able to go outside on April 27 after 44 days of confinement.
Source: Marca
This is how it gets dark today, Saturday April 18 at Maisonnave, one of the main avenues of Alicante . [/ caption]
Friday 17.04.2020
- 2% increase = 75 new cases, total 3476.
- 11 new deceased = 380 in total.
Source: Information
Thursday 16.04.2020
- Increase 0.68% = 23 new cases, total 3401.
- 12 new deceased = 369 in total.
Source: Information
Wednesday 15.04.2020
- Increase 1% = 55 new cases, total 3378.
- 10 new deceased = 357 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Tuesday 14.04.2020
- 3% increase = 111 new cases, total 3323.
- 5 new deceased = 347 in total.
map coronavirus province alicante published by Diario Información [/ caption]
Source: Information
Today, the industrial sector returns to work, with uncertainty, after two weeks of hibernation due to confinement.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Monday 13.04.2020
- 2% increase = 79 new cases, total 3,212.
- 11 new deceased = 342 in total.
Source: Information
Sunday 12.04.2020
- 4% increase = 140 new cases, total 3133.
- 4 new deceased = 331 in total.
Source: Information
Saturday 11.04.2020
- 1% increase = 31 new cases, total 2993.
- 9 new deceased = 327 in total.
Source: Las Provincias
This was our Saturday night par excellence, Castaños street . [/ caption]
Friday 10.04.2020
- 4% increase = 112 new cases, total 2962.
- 8 new deceased = 318 in total.
Source: Information
Hospitals record higher than admissions for the first time since the start of the pandemic
Source: Information
Thursday 9.04.2020
- 1% increase = 47 new cases, total 2,850.
- 18 new deceased = 310 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Wednesday 8.04.2020
- 3% increase = 89 new cases, total 2803.
- 9 new deceased = 292 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
The Minister of Finance announces that the mistrust will take place gradually from April 26.
Source: El Confidencial
Tuesday 7.04.2020
- Increase 1% = 41 new cases, total 2714.
- 14 new deceased = 283 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Monday 6.04.2020
- 1% increase = 46 new cases, total 2673.
- 6 new deceased = 269 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Sunday 5.04.2020
- 2% increase = 68 new cases, total 2627.
- 18 new deceased = 263 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Good news: this Sunday we celebrate a week of decrease in% of infections in Alicante.
Saturday 4.04.2020
- 4% increase = 114 new cases, total 2559.
- 26 new deceased = 245 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Pedro Sánchez extends the alarm status for two more weeks and advances that there will be more extensions
Source: El País
Friday 3.04.2020
- 5% increase = 125 new cases, total 2445.
- 31 new deceased = 219 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Spain surpasses Italy in number of infections with 117,710.
Source: Las Provincias
Thursday 2.04.2020
- 6% increase = 147 new cases, total 2320.
- 21 new deceased = 188 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Wednesday 1.04.2020
- 7% increase = 152 new cases, total 2,173.
- 20 new deceased = 167 in total.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Tuesday 03.31.2020
- 9% increase = 182 new cases, total 2021.
- 12 new deceased = 147 in total.
Source: Information
Alicante postpones Las Hogueras for the coronavirus: they will celebrate September 2 to 6.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Monday 30.03.2020
- 6% increase = 105 new cases, total 1839.
- 20 new deceased = 135 in total.
Source: Information
In Italy it begins to improve: it breaks record of patients discharged in a single day and new infections fall.
Source: El Mundo
Sunday 29.03.2020
- 31% increase = 412 new cases, total 1,734.
- 6 new deceased = 115 in total.
Source: Generalitat Valenciana
First fortnight of alarm status: 600 fines in Alicante, 2,700 people identified and 1,500 vehicles intercepted at controls.
Source: Information
Saturday 28.03.2020
- 20% increase = 229 new cases, total 1322.
- 18 new deceased = 109 in total.
Source: Generalitat Valenciana
The Government prohibits going to work for non-essential activities.
Source: Cinco Días
Friday 27.03.2020
- 5% increase = 54 new cases, total 1093.
- 10 new deceased = 91 in total.
Source: Generalitat Valenciana
Boris Johnson, after his skepticism about the coronavirus, tests positive and will have to isolate himself.
Source: Las Provincias
Thursday 03/26/2020
- 21% increase = 181 new cases, total 1038/1039.
- 11 new deceased = 81 in total.
Source: Information
The United States is already the country with the most affected by coronavirus in the world.
Source: La Vanguardia
The rapid tests that Health bought from China do not work and the Asian country advises that they were purchased from a company without a license.
Source: El Mundo
Wednesday 25.03.2020
- 36% increase = 229 new cases, total 857
- 9 new deceased = 70/71 in total.
Source: Information
Spain surpasses China in number of deaths from coronavirus.
Source: Abc
Tuesday 24.03.2020
- 4% increase = 25 new infected. Total 628.
- 11 new deceased, 61 in total.
Source: Information
The Beijing Olympics are canceled and postponed to 2021.
Source: El País
The province now has more than 5,600 ERTEs that affect almost 30,000 workers.
Source: Information
Monday 23.03.2020
- 12% increase = 66 new infected. Total 603.
- 10 new deceased, 50 in total.
Source: Information
Construction begins on the first field hospital in the province next to the Alicante General Hospital.
Source: Alicante Plaza
Sunday 22.03.2020
- 12% increase = 58 new infected. Total 537.
- 10 new deceased, 40 in total. (Most in the Alcoy residence)
Source: Information
The latest news on the evolution of the coronavirus in Alicante also makes us reflect. After a week, we have more than 1000 identified and 300 sanctions for breaching the confinement. In front of the 537 infected and 40 deceased. Make your own conclusions.
Source: 20 minutes
Saturday 21.03.2020
- Increase 29% = 107 new infected, 476-479 in total.
- 13 new deceased, 30 in total.
Source: Information
Friday 20.03.2020
- 9% increase = 31 new infected, 369 in total
- 6 new deceased, 17 in total.
Source: Information
Tabarca is considered the Spanish paradise during the coronavirus crisis, since there is no contagion on the island.
Source: El Español
Thursday 19.03.2020
- Increase 15% = 45 new infected, 338 in total (the article says 398, but 338 is announced on a virtual map)
- 11 deceased.
Source: Information
ERTES increased to more than 1,000 in the province, affecting more than 7,000 workers.
Source: Levante
First day without any new local spread of coronavirus in China.
Source: El País
Wednesday 18.03.2020
- Increase 57% = 103 new infected, 289/293 total.
- 6 new deceased, 11 in total
(As you can see the number of infected on Monday the 16th, it was higher than on Tuesday the 17th, so it is easy to think that the large increase on Wednesday is also due to a calculation readjustment in these last three days)
Source: Information and El Periòdic
China announces that it has successfully developed a coronavirus vaccine.
Source: Agencia Efe
Tuesday 17.03.20
- 3% decrease = 186 infected, of which 40 are in a nursing home in Alcoy.
- 4 deceased, for a total of 5.
Source: Information
Some data from this day:
| 03/17/20 | Infected | % Infected Population | Deceased |
| Spain | 11178 | 0.02 | 491 |
| Madrid | 4871 | 0.07 | 355 |
| Prov. Alicante | 186 | 0.01 | 5 |
Alicante presents 45 ERTES that affect more than 1,400 workers.
Source: Alicante Plaza
The crisis does not seem to affect Benidorm tourists, who are resisting the coronavirus.
Monday 16.03.20
- Increase 26% = 42 new infections, total 193
Source: Information and Diario de Alicante
Sunday 15.03.20
- 162% increase = 94 new, total 152
Source: Information
Saturday 14.03.20
- 45% increase = 18 new in Alicante, total 57/58
Source: Information
The Government decrees the state of alarm. This, establishes that people must remain at home and can only circulate on public roads in these cases:
- – Procurement of food, pharmaceutical and basic necessities
- – Assistance to health centers, services and establishments
- – Travel to the workplace to carry out your work, professional or business provision
- – Return to your usual place of residence
- – Assistance and care for the elderly, minors, dependents, people with disabilities or especially vulnerable people < / span>
- – Travel to banks and insurance offices
- – Due to force majeure or need situation
- – Any other activity of a similar nature (such as walking the dog) to be done individually, unless accompanying people with disabilities or for other just cause
Prohibited activities:
- – Walk, go for a run or to the gym, as well as bathe on the beach
- – Visit family or friends (except to serve elderly, dependent or vulnerable)
- – Go to eat at a bar or restaurant (these businesses can only serve food at home)
- – Go to entertainment venues (must be closed
The #YoMeQuedoEnCasa movement begins, promoted by social networks, they begin to organize free concerts and an endless number of ingenious activities, as the journalist Elena Vidal explains in her article in El Mundo Alicante.
Source: El Mundo
Friday 13.03.20
The latest news of the evolution of the coronavirus in Alicante this beginning of the weekend begin to be more forceful.
- Increase 53% = 14 new infected. 40 in total
- First deceased, a 77-year-old man with previous pathologies.
Source: Information
Alicante, the first city in Spain to cancel all the Easter processions and events due to the coranavirus.
Source: Twitter
Closing of all bars and restaurants, sports centers, and cultural and leisure events:
The closure of beaches, public parks and children’s games is also decreed:
Thursday 12.03.20
- Increase 30% = Six new infections, in total 26. Among them the first health, a resident doctor of the radiology service of the General Hospital of Alicante.
Source: Information
The closure of the municipal network of museums, the MACA, Cigarettes, the Municipal Archive, the rooms of the Sta Bárbara Castle, the Municipal Center for the Arts, shelters, the Nativity Scene Museum and the Lonja are decided.
The suspension of teaching activity is also announced:
Wednesday 11.03.20
- The number of those affected by Covid-19 in the province of Alicante rises to 20.
Faults are canceled.
The City Council cancels all events in which crowds are planned.
Source: Ayuntamiento Alicante
From Si que pasa, we cancel all our tours, The 7 Secrets of Alicante and The Secret Flavors
Tuesday 10.03.20
- Two more cases, make a total of 18 infected.
Restrictive measures are beginning to be taken to visitors to the sick in hospitals, and visits to nursing homes in our city are also limited.
Source: Information
The City Council extreme hygiene measures in public transport.
Source: Ayuntamiento Alicante
Monday 9.03.20
- Contagions rise to 16 in the province of Alicante.
Source: Information
Sunday 08.03.2020
- Four more positives raise infections to 14 in the province.
President Puig has emphasized that the situation “is difficult” but considers that “containment is adequate.”
Source: Las Provincias
Women’s Day, massive feminist demonstrations are held throughout Spain, against the criteria of the European agency.
Source: El País
In Alicante, there are also demonstrations for women’s day. Another massive demonstration related to the vehicular language, is canceled in our city.
Source: El Confidencial Digital
Saturday 07.03.2020
- We reached a total of 10 in the province of Alicante.
Source: Medical Writing
Friday 06.03.2020 .
- A new case in Alicante. Total 7.
Elche 2, Vega Baja 2, Sant Joan 1, Alicante 2
Source: Cadena Ser
Thursday 05.03.2020
- First two cases in Elche, Total 6.
The count is: Elche 2, Vega Baja 2, San Juan 1, Alicante 1.
Source: Zero Wave
Wednesday 4.03.2020
Health confirms the first three cases in the province of Alicante, one in the Sant Joan d´Alacant hospital, one in the Vega Baja hospital, and one in the General Alicante hospital. They present slight symptoms. All related to trips to northern Italy and the shoe fair. These are the first news of the evolution of the coronavirus in Alicante.
Source: 20 Minutes
Monday 24.02.2020
The concern begins in the province after the visit of dozens of workers in the footwear sector to the Mián fair, but at first, they all test negative.
The General Hospital of Elche rules out that businessmen who were at these events have coronaviruses
Source: Information
This area is located a few kilometers from the city center. Very important international events were held between February 16 and 21: MICAM from February 16 to 19 and Lineapelle from 19 to 21.
Friday 31.1.2020
First case of coronavirus in Spain, it is a patient admitted to La Gomera after having contact with an infected person from Germany who contracted the Wuhan virus.
Source: El Plural
