7 Apr, 2020 @ 12:01
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BREAKING: Spain sees death and infection rates RISE as coronavirus caseload tops 140,000 – but it’s likely a blip

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AFTER four days of decline, the death toll and infection rate of COVID-19 have seen a slight increase. 

New figures today revealed 743 new recorded deaths, up from the 637 registered yesterday.

It brings the total number of COVID-19 deaths in Spain to 13,798.

Meanwhile, the number of new infections also rose between Monday and Tuesday, with 5,478 new cases.

That’s quite significantly higher than the 4,273 new infections announced on Monday.

It means the total number of coronavirus cases in Spain is now 140,510.

But these increases are following a pattern in this crisis that has consistently seen a large jump in the numbers every Tuesday.

There tends to be a lag in reporting deaths and new cases which occurred at the weekends from hospitals across the country.

Many of these are confirmed or registered on Tuesday, causing a spike in the numbers.

If Spain is flattening the curve, it can expect to see the numbers drop yet again tomorrow.

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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