Spain on Friday reported more deaths from the coronavirus tearing the world apart, but the number of death slowed down than the previous day.
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According to the Ministry of Health, the world’s worst death toll from the disease after European neighbour, Italy, 932 people died in 24 hours, bringing the total to 10,935.
“It was the first time in over a week that the figure fell from the previous day,“the ministry said.
On Thursday, 950 new deaths were reported. More new cases were also reported, but the rate of infection slowed.
However, with the 117,710, Spain is now second only in numbers of infected to the U.S. whose population is seven times larger.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has imposed one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns, leaving only employees in essential sectors free to travel to and from work.
According to the Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Spaniards have now been confined since March 14, and that Sanchez would decide over coming days whether to extend it or not.
The region around the capital Madrid has suffered far more infections and deaths than anywhere else in the country. More than 4,400 people so far died in the region
Hospitals are struggling to cope, and more people are dying in the area’s nursing homes, which house some 50,000 people in the most vulnerable age bracket.
Mortuaries have been overwhelmed, prompting regional authorities to set up a third improvised facility at an ice rink near the capital, adapting the 1,800 square-metre space to receive corpses.
