Spain sees deadliest COVID-19 day since end of lockdown

SPAIN has seen its deadliest day in terms of COVID-19 since the end of the nationwide lockdown.

According to the Ministry of Health there have 239 deaths caused by the disease in the past 24 hours.

It is the highest daily death count since the country entered the ‘new normal’ in June.

Madrid has accounted for a third of the deaths and continues to be the worst hit region.

Regional leader Isabel Diaz is now looking at enforcing local and specific lockdowns to fight the surge in cases.

Nationwide there have been 11,193 cases of coronavirus declared in the past 24 hours.

Despite the worrying numbers, health leaders, including Health Minister Salvador Illa, say the situation is ‘stabilising’.

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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.
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