Residents of the southern neighbourhood of Vallecas pick clothes from a donation program at a Catholic parish in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (File photo: AP)

MADRID, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- As of Thursday morning, Spain reported 9,331 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 1,665,775, the country's health ministry reported.

Meanwhile, 273 more COVID-19 deaths were recorded, taking the country's death toll from the disease to 45,784, it said.

Worldwide, Spain has the sixth highest number of COVID-19 infections and ninth highest in terms of deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.