The number of deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic fell by almost a third in Spain in the first half of this year from a year earlier, but disease caused by the virus remained the leading cause of death, data showed. officers on Monday.
Spain’s statistics agency INE said 20,915 people died from COVID-19 in the first half of 2022, according to provisional data, up from 29,300 during the same period in 2021.
In all of last year, COVID-19 killed 39,444 people, 35% less than in 2020, and Spain registered 32,041 more deaths than in 2019, the year before the start of the pandemic.
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People wear protective face masks as they walk down a street in Madrid, Spain, on February 7, 2022.
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The total number of deaths from the virus since the start of the pandemic reached 135,857 in Spain at the end of June 2022
The spread of the virus has slowed significantly in the second half of 2022 after the last wave of the highly contagious Omicron variant subsided.
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The INE also said that the number of suicides rose 5.1% in the first half of 2022 from the previous year, to register 2,015 deaths, the most among any external cause such as falls, drowning and car accidents.
