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Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 14, 2020
Spain, Austria ease curbs but WHO warns COVID-19 outbreak ‘certainly’ has not peaked
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MADRID: Spain and Austria allowed partial returns to work on Tuesday (Apr 14) but Britain, France and India extended coronavirus lockdowns to try to rein in a pandemic which the World Health Organization warned had not yet peaked. Nearly 2 million people globally have been infected and more than 119,200 have died in the most
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 13, 2020
Spain to keep coronavirus restrictions under review
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MADRID: Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Sunday (Apr 12) any further loosening of the country’s lockdown restrictions would depend on more progress in the fight against the coronavirus, a day before some companies plan to reopen their doors. The country’s overnight death toll from the infection rose for the first time in three
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
Italy and Spain looking to ease COVID-19 restrictions, restart economy
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ROME: Italy and Spain, the two European countries worst-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, are looking to ease restrictions in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus, leaders of the two countries have said. Italy may start gradually lifting some restrictions by the end of April, provided the spread of the disease continues to slow,
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 6, 2020
Spain to widen coronavirus tests as hopes rise for easing lockdown
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MADRID: Spain said on Monday (Apr 6) that it plans to widen coronavirus testing to include people without symptoms as a first step towards slowly easing a lockdown in the nation with the second-highest death toll from the global pandemic. As with worst-hit Italy, Spain has seen the rate of new infections and deaths slow in
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 6, 2020
Glimmer of hope in Italy and Spain as US braces for ‘toughest week’
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ROME: Italy and Spain, the two countries hardest hit by the new coronavirus, on Sunday (Apr 5) reported encouraging signs in their fight against the deadly pandemic sweeping the globe as the United States braced for a tough week ahead. Italy reported its lowest daily death toll in two weeks, in a possible sign the tide
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 3, 2020
Global coronavirus cases top a million as Spain, UK see record deaths
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WASHINGTON: Confirmed coronavirus cases around the world topped one million on Thursday (Apr 2) and the number of deaths soared past 50,000 as Europe reeled from the pandemic and the United States reported record numbers of people out of work. Despite more than half the planet imposing some form of lockdown, the virus claimed thousands more
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 1, 2020
Spain sees record 849 coronavirus deaths but downward trend
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MADRID: Spain reported a new daily record of 849 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday (Mar 31), but health officials said the trend in new infections continues to decline. After Italy, Spain has suffered the world’s second most deadly outbreak with the loss of 8,189 lives. The latest figures came a day after the death toll had dipped
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 31, 2020
Spain overtakes China in COVID-19 infections
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MADRID: Spain overtook China in the number of those infected with coronavirus on Monday (Mar 30), as the government tightened restrictions on a population entering its third week under one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe. Business leaders criticised Spain’s actions over the weekend to ban all non-essential work until mid-April and to extend for
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 31, 2020
Trump says US to send medical supplies to Italy, France, Spain
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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Monday (Mar 30) that the United States will send medical equipment for combating the coronavirus pandemic to Italy and later France and Spain. Trump, speaking at his daily briefing at the White House, went into few specifics about the type of aid or the timing, but said a large quantity
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 30, 2020
Spain toughens restrictions as coronavirus death toll surges
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MADRID: Spain prepared to enter its third week under near-total lockdown on Sunday (Mar 29), as the government approved a strengthening of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus and the death toll rose by 838 cases overnight to 6,528. Second only to Italy in fatalities, Spain also saw infections rise to 78,797 from
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 26, 2020
Spain overtakes China COVID-19 toll with 3,434 deaths
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MADRID: Spain’s coronavirus death toll overtook that of China on Wednesday (Mar 25), rising to 3,434 after 738 people died over the past 24 hours, the government said. The spiralling number of deaths came as Spain entered the 11th day of an unprecedented lockdown to try and rein in the COVID-19 epidemic that has now infected
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 24, 2020
Spain COVID-19 death toll rises by 514 to 2,696
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MADRID: Another 514 people have died in Spain over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 2,696, as the number of infections surged towards 40,000, the government said Tuesday (Mar 24). As the health authorities step up the number of tests, the number of people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 rose by nearly
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 22, 2020
Spain to boost coronavirus testing as deaths surpass 1,300
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MADRID: Spanish authorities said on Saturday (Mar 21) that they would boost coronavirus testing, potentially with the help of robots, as the toll in the country kept climbing, surpassing 1,300 deaths and reaching close to 25,000 cases. Europe’s second-worst outbreak showed no sign of improvement as the single-day death toll jumped over 300 people from
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 20, 2020
Spain COVID-19 death toll tops 1,000, nearly 20,000 infected
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MADRID: The coronavirus death toll rose to 1,002 in Spain on Friday (Mar 20) after 235 people died in 24 hours, and the number of cases approached 20,000, the health ministry said. The spiralling number of infections has propelled Spain into the top four worst-hit countries in the world – with the figures growing as the
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