13 Apr, 2020 @ 12:22
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BREAKING: Spain sees lowest coronavirus infection rate since March 21 as death toll returns to a decline

Breaking news at The Olive Press

SPAIN has recorded 517 deaths in the past 24 hours as it returns to flattening the coronavirus curve following a slight spike on Sunday.

The new daily death toll is down from the 619 registered yesterday and brings the total number of those who have lost their lives to the virus to 17,489.

Meanwhile, the infection rate has also dropped with 3,477 new COVID-19 cases recorded on Monday morning (down from yesterday’s 4,167).

That’s the lowest recorded rise in new infections since March 21 and is among the strongest suggestions yet that the nationwide lockdown is working.

It brings the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Spain to 169,496.

Thousands of people are continuing to recover from the disease each day, with 2,336 ridding themselves of COVID-19 between Sunday and Monday.

The total number of recovered sufferers is now 64,727.

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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