18 Aug, 2020 @ 17:51
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Spain registers 2,128 COVID-19 cases in one day as it becomes worst-hit country in Europe

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SPAIN has registered 2,128 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours.

The figure announced by the Ministry of Health brings the total since the pandemic began to 364,196.

It is also the highest daily increase since the end of the state of alarm.

While the number has slightly stabilised, with 1,833 positive results announced on Monday, the country’s coronavirus incidence has now reached 131.12 infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the past 14 days.

That incidence rate is the highest in Europe.

The second wave is mostly occurring in Madrid, where there have been 707 new cases registered between Monday and Tuesday.

In a distant second is Aragon with 374 cases in the past 24 hours, followed by the Basque Country (282), Andalucia (202) and Galicia (124).

Health bosses also revealed that over the past seven days, some 1,096 people suffering from COVID-19 required hospitalisation, of whom 65 have ended up in intensive care.

Most of these 65 new ICU patients (16), have been in Andalucia.

A total of 24 people died from the virus 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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