16 Apr, 2020 @ 12:23
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BREAKING: Slight increase in Spain’s coronavirus infection and death rates as many more tests carried out while recovery rate jumps up

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SPAIN has recorded a slight jump in both new infections and deaths related to COVID-19. 

Since yesterday, 551 people have died from coronavirus (up from yesterday’s 523), bringing the total number of deaths to 19,130.

Meanwhile, a further 5,183 cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours, up from the 5,092 registered on Wednesday.

It brings the total number of cases to 182,816.

Director of health emergencies Fernando Simon told press yesterday that the data should be looked at with caution as the country was carrying out more testing and revealing old and past infections.

There also continues to be thousands of people recovering each day, with today’s total standing at 3,944 (up from yesterday’s 3,349).

Some 74,797 have recovered from COVID-19 in Spain.

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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