Coronavirus: Spanish army finds care home residents 'dead and abandoned'
"The army, during certain visits, found some older people completely abandoned, sometimes even dead in their beds," she said.Health officials have said that in normal circumstances the bodies of deceased residents are put in cold storage until they are collected by the funeral services.
Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa told a news conference that retirement homes were"an absolute priority for the government".As the crisis in Madrid worsened, the city's municipal funeral home said it would stop the collection of Covid-19 victims from Tuesday because of a lack of protective equipment.
The Palacio de Hielo complex, which also includes shops, restaurants, a bowling alley and cinemas, is not far from the Ifema congress centre where a field hospital has been set up for coronavirus patients.
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