Devastating situation in Spain: More than 800 corona deaths in one day - the military takes away corpses

Like Italy, Spain is severely affected by the corona virus. The number of infected people and deaths increases every day. The developments in the news ticker.

• The corona virus * causes devastating proportions in Spain .
• The number of deaths and infected people is increasing.
• In Spain the curfew is valid until April 11th.
• 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.
  

Update 12:38: In Spain , which is particularly badly affected by the coronavirus, 832 new fatalities were recorded within 24 hours. This is the highest increase that has been registered in the country so far, according to the health authorities in their daily balance sheet. Overall, the number of victims has risen to just under 5,700 since Friday. The number of infected people continued to rise, reaching around 72,000 on Saturday afternoon, around 8,000 more than the previous day. However, the percentage increase has been relatively low for days.

More than 12,000 people are already healthy. The region most affected remains Madrid, where almost half of all deaths have been recorded.

After Italy, Spain is the most severely affected country in Europe. In the meantime, the military has to help transport the bodies here too. This was announced by the Ministry of Health in the Official Journal on Saturday.

Spain in the Corona crisis: Experts estimate the number of infected people in a new dimension

Update March 28, 2020, 8:47 am: For Toni Kroos and his teammates from the Spanish football giant Real Madrid, the Corona quarantine is over after two weeks - at least officially. After a positive test by real basketball player Trey Thompkins, the entire football department was also placed under domestic isolation on March 12.

According to the AS newspaper, the club has confirmed that no other real professional has COVID-19. First of all, not much changes: The players work out individual fitness plans, given the tense situation in Spain, joint training is out of the question.

Update of March 27, 10.30 p.m .: The FAZ writes of an embarrassing setback for the Spanish government in the fight against Corona , referring to the Instituto de Salud Carlos III. . According to the report, the Ministry of Health has sent 58,000 rapid tests back to a Chinese manufacturer because the tests are said to be only 30 percent reliable.

The government previously announced 640,000 rapid tests to make up for the international gap, the report said. Experts would also fear that over half a million people in Spain are already infected with the corona virus.

Corona in Spain: Report - Thousands of German campers have to return to Germany

Update from March 27, 8:50 p.m .: Spain is closing all hotels and camping sites to tourists.

The result: According to Auto Bild, thousands of campers have to leave the country for their home, including many Germans. According to the report, around 50,000 Germans are in Spain over the winter to spring to escape the cold winter at home - it is not uncommon for them to be 65 years old or older. Say: pensioners.

If they do not have their first or second residence on the Iberian Peninsula, they must now leave the country. The EU member states have closed their borders because of the unrestrained spread of the coronavirus pandemic .

Barcelona: Soldiers in protective suits are walking towards a retirement home, where they are supposed to carry out disinfection measures.

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So far, however, the German campers who travel back are allowed to cross the border between Spain and France as well as between France and Germany. In addition, overnight breaks in parking lots are still allowed.

Update of March 27, 7:20 p.m .: After former Real Madrid President Lorenzo Sanz (76), the second Spanish sports personality has died from the effects of a coronavirus infection : the former runner Santiago Llorente.

Former athlete Covid-19 died at the age of 61. The European Athletics Association European Athletics announced this Friday. Llorente won silver at the U20 Cross World Cup in Düsseldorf in 1977 and was one of the top runners in his country in the 1980s.

Corona in Spain: thousands more infected within 24 hours

Update of March 27, 5.11 p.m .: In the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, concrete hope is sprouting for the first time in severely affected Spain . The number of infections rose sharply again on Friday: in just 24 hours, it rose by just under 8,000 to a good 64,000, as the Ministry of Health announced.

The corona virus also hits Spain badly.

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At 14 percent, however , the increase was the lowest of the past few days, stressed the head of the authority for health emergencies (CCAES), Fernando Simón , at his daily press conference.

Simón spoke of "promising data that gives us some hope". The pandemic is approaching its climax , after which the situation will improve. Also with the increase in the number of fatalities and the admissions of Covid 19 patients in hospitals and intensive care units, “a stabilization, a slight flattening” of the curve becomes noticeable. In addition, the number of those discharged as healthy was almost 10,000 - around 6,000 more than the previous day.

First report from March 27, 3 p.m .: Corona in Spain : 600 dead within 24 hours - experts with a bad guess

Madrid - The corona virus keeps Spain in suspense and kills thousands of people. After Italy, Spain remains the country in Europe most affected by the new Sars-CoV-2 virus.

Corona in Spain: 600 deaths within 24 hours

According to official figures, more people in Spain have now died from the consequences of the coronavirus * than in China, where the virus had spread from.

As in the past few days, the number of people infected * and dead continues to rise sharply. Almost 8,000 new infections have been registered in the last 24 hours . As a result, the total number has climbed to a good 64,000, as the Ministry of Health announced on Friday in its daily balance sheet. The number of deaths has meanwhile increased to just under 4,900 , which corresponds to an increase of 600 within a day. As Morgenpost.de reports, experts like microbiologist Gabriel Reina suspect that the true number of infections is four to five times higher than is officially stated.

Corona in Spain: Patients flee from hospitals

Spain's capital Madrid continues to be the epicenter of the coronavirus. The health system is overwhelmed, hospitals, clinics and medical staff at the limit. In addition, there are increasing new infections among hospital staff .

An end is not yet in sight in Spain . How bad the conditions in Spain actually are is shown, among other things, by the report that Corona patients fled from clinics and an ice stadium was temporarily converted into a morgue.

The city council assured that it was an “interim depot” that primarily aimed to “alleviate the pain of the families of the victims and the situation in the Madrid hospitals”.

Corona in Spain: curfew until April 11th

In view of the critical Corona situation, the strict curfews * in Spain were extended by two weeks on Wednesday until April 11th .

Meanwhile, the situation in France is also deteriorating. In Germany, the authorities warn hospitals of "increased risk of threats".

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