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The Valencian Community was the first Spanish region to confirm a death due to COVID-19. Since then, the death toll has increased rapidly. In fact, on March 13, one day before the President of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, declared the State of Alarm, the number of infected people who had died had already exceeded *. As of June 30, 2023, as can be seen in this statistic, ** people have died from the Wuhan coronavirus within the national borders.

The first suspected cases were officially announced by the World Health Organization on December 31, 2019, following the appearance of this new coronavirus about three weeks earlier in one of the markets in the Chinese region of Wuhan, from which it took its name. Meanwhile, in Spain, the first person affected by COVID-19, a German tourist in La Gomera, was confirmed at the end of January 2020.