Similar to Italy, Spain is now struggling with dramatic conditions - the pandemic is forcing borderline steps.
- The corona virus * dominates the world.
- Some countries in Europe are already in a state of emergency .
- Now Spain also sees itself at its borders.
- Here you will find the basic facts about the corona virus and the corona news from Germany. You can also find current case numbers in Germany as a map. The following recommendations for corona protective measures are currently available.
Madrid - The search for a suitable drug against the worldwide spreading coronavirus is increasingly a race against time . Many countries are just before or in the middle of a state of emergency . After Italy, Spain also sees itself at its borders. At the Spanish epicenter Madrid , there were more than 12,300 people infected with Covid-19 on Tuesday. Nationwide, 2,700 corona deaths have already been recorded. More than half of them were in Madrid alone. The government had to take tragic measures .
In fact, people in #Spain had hoped that the country-wide curfew imposed in mid-March would soon be effective in the fight against the #Corona virus. That's not the case. The high death rate shocked at home and abroad.
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Coronavirus in Spain: increasing number of deaths overwhelms the country
According to the German press agency, the ice stadium in Madrid was converted into a morgue due to the rapidly increasing number of corona deaths. The first coffins would probably arrive there later in the day, the mayor of the Spanish capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida , told RTVE on Tuesday. "It was a painful decision, but it was necessary because the funeral directors are overloaded," said the conservative politician. How long the corpses had to be kept on the 1800 square meter ice surface of the "Palacio de Hielo", the "Ice Palace", one could also not say.
Coronavirus in Spain: increasing number of deaths overwhelms the country
In addition to Italy in Europe, Spain is particularly hard hit by the Corona crisis . The number of infected people continues to rise every day. Around 6,500 new cases have been registered in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to about 40,000, the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday in its daily balance sheet.
The Spanish authorities hope that the crisis will culminate this week thanks to the strict measures with far-reaching restrictions on freedom of movement for the almost 47 million Spaniards.
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