17 Apr, 2020 @ 12:41
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BREAKING: Spain’s coronavirus death and infection rates slightly increase as death toll nears 20,000

Breaking news at The Olive Press

SPAIN’S coronavirus infection rate has slightly increased for the third day in a row with 5,252 cases confirmed in the past 24 hours. 

That’s up from the 5,183 confirmed yesterday and brings the total number of cases to 188,068.

This represents an increase of around 2.8% -2.9%, down from the 20% increases being recorded at the start of the state of the alarm.

Director of health emergencies Fernando Simon said at a press conference today that the number of new hospitalisations and ICU patients have increased by just 1.6% and 1.5% respectively.

Meanwhile, 585 deaths from the disease occurred in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll so far in Spain to 19,478.

The daily death rate is up from the 551 registered on Thursday.

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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