2 Sep, 2020 @ 18:51
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Spain adds 8,581 COVID-19 cases with Madrid taking lion’s share of ‘second wave’

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SPAIN has registered 8,581 COVID-19 cases by PCR on Wednesday, with 3,663 of those being detected in the past 24 hours.

The figure is 466 more than the number declared on Tuesday, when 8,115 positive test results were added.

Most of the new cases continue to be in Madrid, with the central region counting 1,362 cases in the past 24 hours, followed by the Basque Country (524) and Andalucia (372).

The total number of people to have officially tested positive for COVID-19 in Spain now stands at 479,554.

In terms of deaths from the disease, there have been 42 between Tuesday and Wednesday.

It brings the total death toll to 29,194, a figure which does not include those who died in care homes.

According to El Mundo, there have been 177 deaths from the virus over the past week.

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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