January On 31 January 2020, Spain confirmed its first COVID-19 case in La Gomera, Canary Islands. A tourist from Germany tested positive and was admitted to University Hospital of the Nuestra Señora de Candelaria.
February On 9 February, the second case involved a British male tourist in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, who contracted the disease after coming into contact with someone in France who subsequently tested positive.
On 12 February, Barcelona's Mobile World Congress was cancelled.
On 13 February, the first death in Spain was recorded involving a 69-year-old man who had been in Nepal. He died in Valencia and was diagnosed post-mortem.Muere una mujer de 99 años en Madrid con coronavirus: primera víctima en la capital y tercera en España 5 March 2020 Press article, www.20minutos.es, accessed 20 March 2020
On 24 February, following a COVID-19 outbreak in Italy, a medical doctor from Lombardy, Italy, who was on holiday in Tenerife, tested positive at the University Hospital of the Nuestra Señora de Candelaria in Spain. The H10 Costa Adeje Palace in Tenerife was put on lockdown.
On 25 February, four new cases related to the Italian cluster were confirmed in Spain: In Canary Islands, the wife of the medical doctor from Lombardy, who was on holiday in Tenerife, tested positive. In Catalonia, a 36-year-old Italian woman living in Spain, who visited Bergamo and Milan from 12 to 22 February, also tested positive in Barcelona. A 24-year-old man from Madrid, who recently returned from Northern Italy, tested positive and was admitted to Hospital Carlos III. In the Valencian Community, a man from Villarreal, who recently travelled to Milan, tested positive and was admitted to Hospital Universitario De La Plana, Castellón.
On 26 February: The first reported case in Andalusia was confirmed in Seville. On the Canary Islands, two Italian tourists, who were on holiday with the Italian doctor and his wife, also tested positive. The group were transferred to University Hospital of the Nuestra Señora de Candelaria and underwent quarantine. In Barcelona, a 22-year-old man who visited Italy a few days ago was tested positive. Another positive was detected in Hospital Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, San Sebastián de La Gomera. A second case in Madrid was also reported.
On 27 February: In Barcelona, a 22-year-old woman from Tenerife, who travelled to Italy from 19 to 25 February, was admitted to Hospital Clínic. In Castile and León, an 18-year-old Italian Erasmus student studying in IE University, Segovia, who had just returned from Milan, was admitted to Hospital General de Segovia, and an engineer from Iran, working in Valladolid. In the Valencian Community, a 44-year-old man from Valencia, who worked as a sportswriter and travelled to Milan's San Siro Stadium on 19 February to watch a football clash between Atalanta B.C. and Valencia CF, tested positive and was admitted to Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia. Two other people with whom he had contact also tested positive and were admitted to the same hospital. Two more people, who had visited the same football game in Milan, were hospitalised at the same place. A woman, who had visited Milan, was hospitalised at Hospital de Sagunto, Valencia. An Italian student studying in Valencia, who had visited Northern Italy, was admitted to Hospital Universitario Doctor Peset.
On 28 February:
In Andalusia, a 28-year-old male who resides in Milan tested positive in Almería had been admitted to Hospital Mediterráneo. Another eight people tested positive: two men of 42 and 53 years and an 81-year-old woman in Marbella, a 25-year-old nurse from Arjonilla who treated a person who was positive for coronavirus at the Torrejón de Ardoz Hospital, a 58-year-old Sevillian doctor and two men aged 42 and 53 years and a 55-year-old woman in Fuengirola. The Community of Madrid confirmed the fifth positive case of coronavirus at the Infanta Sofía University Hospital in the town of San Sebastián de los Reyes involving a 66-year-old man. Following the discovery of a COVID-19 case involving a Spanish sportswriter who went to Milan for the game of 2019–2020 UEFA Champions League Round of 16 against Atalanta B.C., Valencia CF announced the suspension of all non-sports indoor events such as news conferences.
On 29 February: In Andalusia, two new suspicious cases tested positive in Fuengirola involving two men aged 59 and 62 years old residing in the province of Málaga, increasing to a total of ten cases. The first positive in Asturias was reported. On the Balearic Islands, a new positive case was confirmed, a woman in Mallorca who remains isolated at the Son Espases University Hospital. In the Basque Country the first case was reported. In Cantabria, the first case involving a person who travelled to Italy tested positive. Two more cases were confirmed in Catalonia: one in Girona and the other in Sant Cugat del Vallès. The first case in Navarre was reported.
March 1 March 2020 In Andalusia two young infected doctors increased the number of Andalusian cases to 12. In the Basque Country another four cases were reported, three originated from previous positive contacts in the province of Álava, while one from Gipuzkoa was a healthcare professional and did not have any relationship or history of risk. In Castilla–La Mancha the first case of coronavirus was confirmed, a 62-year-old male from the province of Guadalajara. In Castile and León, one case was reported of a 62-year-old truck driver who had travelled to Milan two weeks before and tested positive for coronavirus at El Bierzo Hospital. Extremadura announced the first four cases, a 56-year-old male in Coria, a 56-year-old man in Cáceres also and two males of 58 years and another of 19 in Llerena-Zafra.
2 March 2020 In the Basque Country, another healthcare worker was reported infected in Álava province, bringing the number of cases to 10. In Cantabria, nine new cases originating from people who travelled to Italy increased the total cases there 10 cases in the community. Castilla–La Mancha announced two new cases: men of 23 and 30 years of age, both imported cases, with an epidemiological link with the risk zone of northern Italy and who were being treated in the Almansa and Albacete hospitals. In Castile and León five new cases in one day brought the total to eight people affected by coronavirus in the region. Three in Leon, of which one was a policeman from León who had been taking a statement from two Korean citizens with an active cough, a 19-year-old student of the University of Salamanca, and a 52-year-old man from La Rioja in the province of Burgos. Catalonia reported three more positive cases to the list: two 16 and 20-year-old women residing in Girona who had travelled to northern Italy between 14 and 16 February. The third case is a 28-year-old man living in Barcelona who had travelled to Milan from 20 to 23 February. Two new positives in Extremadura, two women aged 20 and 21 from Badajoz, increased the total to 6. Positive cases of coronavirus increased to 29 in the Community of Madrid, after an initial erroneous report that reported the figure as 32 in a press conference by the director of the Centre for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies of the Ministry of Health, Fernando Simón. In Navarre, a second positive case was reported of a man aged 34, who was a family member of the admitted woman. In La Rioja the first case was confirmed.
3 March 2020 Another infected person was reported in Málaga, Andalusia, with a total of 13 reported cases. The second and third positives in Asturias were reported, amounting to 3 cases. In the Balearic Islands a third positive case was confirmed. In the Basque Country three more positives, two new infected in Álava, and the first one from Biscay, raising the total positives to 13, 10 in Álava, 2 in Gipuzkoa and 1 in Biscay. In Castilla–La Mancha there were four new cases reported, bringing the total up to seven, two in the province of Guadalajara and another two in the province of Toledo. A new case in Catalonia, a 38-year-old tourist who had been in Milan, reaching 18 infected people. In the Community of Madrid 27 new positive cases of coronavirus bring the total up to 56, with five serious in intensive care. In La Rioja the second case of coronavirus was confirmed, a man who was in contact with the person who is part of the health staff of the Txagorritxu Hospital (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava) that was confirmed as the first case in the community. In the Valencian Community the number of infected rises to 19 cases, with four new cases. After a forensic investigation, a man who had been infected with coronavirus in the Hospital Arnau de Vilanova died on 13 February in Valencia. The first death in Madrid took place this day; it was reported on 5 March after a forensic analysis.
4 March 2020 In Asturias a new positive case was reported, amounting 4 cases. In Aragon the first case of coronavirus was confirmed, a 79-year-old man. In the Balearic Islands, two more confirmed cases, two young men from Sa Pobla who travelled to Bergamo, making a total of 4 active cases and one recovered. In the Basque Country 8 another positives bring the total positives to 21, 16 active cases in Álava, two in Gipuzkoa and three more infected and one death in Vizcaya. 250 people remain in isolation, more than of them a hundred are health professionals. In Castile and León three more new cases in one day bring the total to 11 affected by coronaviruses in the region: a young woman, health professional from the Basque Health Service, admitted to the Burgos University Assistance Complex, another male in Miranda de Ebro and young man from a recent trip to Italy in Segovia. In Castilla–La Mancha there were 5 new cases reported, bringing the total up to 12: 7 in the province of Guadalajara, 2 in Toledo, 1 in Albacete, 1 in Almansa and 1 in Tomelloso. 10 new cases in Catalonia, reaching a total of 28 infected people, a 23-year-old woman from Barcelona who had been on holiday in Milan, a 39-year-old man from Barcelona who had travelled to Bergamo and Milan, a 40-year-old man from Barcelona who also travelled to Milan, a 47-year-old man from Manresa who was infected by a positive from Valencia, and a 53-year-old woman and a 52-year-old man, both from Girona, who have also been infected by previously confirmed cases, all these last three cases by local contact. In Galicia, the first case in the community was confirmed in A Coruña. In the Community of Madrid 20 new positive cases of coronavirus brought the total to 76, of which 41 were hospitalised and 7 in intensive care. Five new cases were reported in La Rioja, but one of them is counted in Burgos, Castilla y León, so the positives cases total in the community amounts to 6. In the Valencian Community the infected rises to 22 cases, with four new cases and one of the previous day discarded, 3 of them in the province of Alicante.
5 March 2020 In Andalusia 4 new cases were reported, a 17-year-old girl in Málaga at the Santa Rosa de Lima school who returned last week from a study trip to Italy, a 23-year-old woman and a 37-year-old woman in Seville and a 41-year-old woman in Alhaurín de la Torre, bringing the total to 17 active cases and not 16 as reported by the media. In Asturias a new positive case in Gijón, a 48-year-old male related to the Torrejón de Ardoz cluster (Madrid), was reported, amounting 5 cases. In the Balearic Islands, one more positive male, making a total of 5 active cases and one recovered. In the Basque Country 6 another positives, raising the total positives to 27. In the Canary Islands two new cases (a female Italian tourist in Gran Canaria and an Italian tourist in San Cristobal de la Laguna) and a recovery of a person (an hotel guest of H10 Costa Adeje Palace) were reported, raising the total to 8 active cases and 3 recoveries.