30 Apr, 2020 @ 12:05
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BREAKING: Spain sees lowest daily death toll in six weeks as it prepares to lift further coronavirus restrictions

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SPAIN’S daily coronavirus death toll has recorded a new low this morning. 

In the past 24 hours, 268 people lost their lives to COVID-19, the lowest figure in six weeks and down from yesterday’s 325. It brings the total death toll to 24,543.

Meanwhile, the number of recovered continues to climb with 3,103 beating the virus in the past 24 hours.

More than 112,000 people have overcome COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

The number of infections rose by 1,309 in the past 24 hours, remaining much lower than the number of recovered.

The majority of new cases were registered in Madrid (406), followed by Catalunya (262) and Castilla y Leon (195).

Murcia and the Balearics only saw six and four new cases respectively.

The total number of confirmed cases (by PCR) now stands at 213,435.

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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