MADRID (AFP) - Spain's coronavirus death toll soared past 19,000 on Thursday (April 16) after another 551 people died of Covid-19, with the numbers reflecting a slowdown after nearly five weeks on lockdown.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MADRID - Spain's coronavirus death toll soared past 19,000 on Thursday after another 551 people died of Covid-19, with the numbers reflecting a slowdown after nearly five weeks on lockdown.
But there are growing concerns that the toll may be far higher, with regional authorities in Madrid and Catalonia insisting they each had thousands more victims than the official count. One of the victims was best-selling Chilean writer Luis Sepulveda, who died at a hospital in northern Spain, his publishing house said on Thursday. He was 70.
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