BREAKING: Spain detects more than 25,000 COVID-19 cases in new daily record

SPAIN has detected 25,595 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours.

It is the highest daily count of the pandemic and is the first time it has exceeded 25,000, a feat only achieved by a handful of countries.

The Ministry of Health figures released today suggest the country is far from reaching a peak in the second wave, with the number of infections detected jumping by 28% compared to last Friday.

The total number of infections registered since the start of the pandemic in Spain is now 1,185,678.

It means 2.5% of the population has officially been infected but the actual number is believed to be much higher.

A total of 239 people lost their lives to the virus in Spain between Thursday and Friday.

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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.
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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