23 Mar, 2020 @ 11:53
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BREAKING: Spain’s coronavirus caseload surpasses 33,000 as death toll surges past 2,100

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THE number of coronavirus cases in Spain has reached 33,089 as of Monday. 

According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, the death toll now sits at 2,182.

That’s 462 more deaths in 24 hours, beating the record set yesterday when 394 more people had died.

In terms of total cases, that number increased from Sunday to Monday by 4,517.

Madrid continues to be the worst-hit region with 9,702 cases and more than 1,000 deaths.

Catalunya is a distant second with 5,925 cases and 245 deaths, followed by the Basque Country with 2,097 cases and 97 deaths.

Andalucia, including the Costa del Sol and Valencia, home to the Costa Blanca. and round up the top five worst hit regions with 1,725 and 1,604 cases respectively.

Laurence Dollimore

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.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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