MADRID (Reuters) – 2 aircrafts packed with protective devices arrived to restock Spain’s overloaded public health system on Wednesday as its validated coronavirus cases rose beyond 100,000 and it taped its biggest one-day death toll from the break out.
FILE IMAGE: A woman wearing a protective face mask crosses a deserted street, during the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) outbreak in Madrid, Spain, March 31,2020 REUTERS/Susana Vera
Disallowing Italy, the virus has killed more people in Spain than anywhere else, triggering a lockdown that has brought financial activity to a virtual dead stop. A survey revealed Spain’s production sector is heading for a slump after shrinking in March at its steepest pace considering that2013
A record 864 fatalities over night took the nation’s total toll to 9,053 while overall infections rose to 102,136, health authorities stated, adding that the percentage increase in deaths was lower than in current days.
” The central concern is no longer whether we’ve reached the peak or not, it seems like we are there,” health emergency chief Fernando Simon, who was himself detected with the infection today, informed a briefing.
” The essential problem is to make sur