MADRID, March 24 — Another 514 people have died in Spain over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 2,696, as the number of infections surged towards 40,000, the government said today. As the health authorities step up the number of tests, the number of people who have been diagnosed...
A man, wearing a protective mask, walks with his shopping bag through an empty street due to the coronavirus outbreak in central Madrid, Spain, March 14, 2020. — Reuters pic
As the health authorities step up the number of tests, the number of people who have been diagnosed with Covid-19 rose by nearly 20 per cent to 39,673, the health ministry said. The new figures came as the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was to seek parliamentary approval to extend the state of emergency for an extra two weeks, until April 11, in a bid to slow the spread of the virus. The Madrid region has suffered the brunt of the epidemic with 12,352 infections — just under a third of the total — and 1,535 deaths, or 57 per cent of the national figure.
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