22 Apr, 2020 @ 11:48
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BREAKING: Spain struggling to bring down coronavirus death and infection rates after two-week plateau

Breaking

SPAIN is struggling to get its COVID-19 death and infection rates down after experiencing a two-week plateau. 

Figures released by the Health Ministry today show a slight increase in the daily death toll compared to yesterday (up to 435 from 430).

Meanwhile the infection rate has also slightly increased from the 3,968 new cases confirmed yesterday, to 4,211 today.

The total death toll and caseload stand at 21,717 and 208,389 respectively.

The mortality rate has been almost stuck at 2% for the past two weeks, with the country struggling to get it dropping below 400.

The infection rate has also plateaued around the 4,000 mark and has seen no significant drop in the past seven days despite the country entering its sixth week of lockdown.

A total of 85,915 people have recovered from COVID-19 in Spain, including 3,401 in the past 24 hours.

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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