Spain sees slight rise in COVID-19 deaths

20:10, April 22, 2020

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  Spain sees daily coronavirus deaths fall to 301

  Spain on Tuesday counted 301 new virus deaths, a lower figure than the previous day, bringing the overall toll to 23,822, the health ministry said.Healthcare workers applaud in return as they are cheered on outside the Gregorio Maranon Hospital in Madrid on April 27, 2020 during a national lockdown to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 disease. (Photo: AFP)Spain, which has the worlds third-highest COVID-19 death toll after the United States and Italy, has been under a strict nationwide lockdown since March 14 to curb the spread of the virus which was prolonged last week until May 9.Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is expected to later on Tuesday outline plans to ease the restrictions.

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  Spain's coronavirus death toll rises to 22,902

  File photoMADRID, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Spanish health authorities confirmed on Saturday that 22,902 people in the country have now lost their lives because of the coronavirus, after reporting 378 deaths in the 24-hour period until 2100 hours local time Friday.The daily figure is 11 more than the 367 deaths reported a day earlier, but it is the third time fewer than 400 deaths have been recorded in a 24-hour period this week, according to the Ministry of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social ServicesMeanwhile, 2,915 new cases were also confirmed by PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests on Saturday, raising the total number of confirmed infections by such tests, which discovers if the coronavirus is active in the body, to 205,905.The ministry recently changed the way it calculates the number of cases to distinguish between those confirmed by PCR tests and those detected by antibody tests -- which tend to show who has had the virus and subsequently recovered from it).The ministry explained that antibody tests revealed a further 17,854 people had contracted the virus, taking the total number of cases in the country to 223,759.The number of cured patients has risen by 3,353 to 95,708.

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  Spain death toll breaches 20,000 as COVID-19 rampage continues in Europe

  People wearing protective face masks walk past the Spanish flag hanging from the balcony above a closed store in Madrid, Spain, on April 18, 2020.Spain became the second European country to have over 20,000 deaths after Italy, while fatalities in France and Britain passed 19,000 and 15,000 respectiv