BREAKING: Spain records 10,222 new coronavirus cases Wednesday as infection rate continues to drop

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SPAIN has detected 10,222 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday as the infection rate continues to fall.

It comes after the country detected more than 12,200 on Tuesday in what was also the deadliest day of the second wave.

According to the Health Ministry, some 369 people lost their lives to the virus in the past 24 hours, a drop from yesterday’s peak of 537.

Of the more than 10,000 cases declared today, some 5,400 correspond to tests performed in the past 24 hours.

That is an increase of 816 compared to Tuesday.

Madrid accounts for the most of these, with 1,105, followed by Catalunya (832), the Basque Country (622) and Andalucia (422).

These four regions account for more than half of cases discovered by tests performed in the past 24 hours.

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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.
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He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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