Coronavirus: Spain still pays a heavy price with 832 dead in 24 hours

The macabre count continues. The 24-hour death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has further increased in Spain to 832, according to the latest official figures on Saturday, bringing the death toll to 5,690 in the country.

Aside from an inflection on Thursday, the daily death toll continues to grow day by day in Spain, the second country with the highest number of Covid-19 deaths in the world behind Italy. He had been 769 on Friday.

The number of cases increased by more than 8,000 in 24 hours, to 72,248 as the authorities decided to carry out more and more tests in order to better assess the extent of the pandemic in the country.

The rate of increase in the number of cases is decreasing

But, a positive note underlined by the authorities, the pace of the daily increase in the number of cases like that of the number of deaths has marked a slowdown in recent days as the government keeps repeating that Spain should no longer be very far from the peak of the epidemic.

The more than 46 million Spaniards have been subjected since March 14 to the strictest confinement which has been extended this week until April 11. The Madrid region remains the most affected in the country with 2,757 deaths, or almost half of the country's deaths, and 21,520 cases.

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Faced with this explosion of deaths, the Madrid authorities will install on Monday a second temporary morgue in an unused public building in the suburbs of the capital after having installed one in the ice rink of a shopping center.