20-year-old dies from coronavirus on Costa del Sol as Spain's case load surpasses 11,000

A 20-YEAR-OLD has died from coronavirus in Malaga.

The young man becomes the sixth fatality in the province linked to COVID-19 and 11th in Andalucia, according to the Health Ministry.

The young man is reported to have suffered from a previous serious illness.

Recent deaths include a 91-year-old woman in Sevilla and two men, aged 57 and 80, in Granada.

Five previous deaths were recorded in Malaga, including a 70-year-old man in Benalmadena, an 82-year-old in Malaga and three others, two aged 70 and one aged 89 at the Hospital Costa del Sol in Marbella.

The number of cases continues to grow in Malaga with 278 confirmed as of today, a 43 jump on yesterday.

Some 97 are in hospitals while a further 175 are being treated at home.

In Andalucia, the number has risen by 129 cases to 683.

Meanwhile on a national level, the number has now jumped to 11,178, reported El Mundo.

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Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
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