Spain on Wednesday crowned one million coronavirus infections, a milestone as the country deals with Europe’s most severe Covid-19 outbreak, depleting some of the country’s hospitals and forcing citizens to close strictly.
Spain has recorded 1,005,295 cases since the start of the pandemic, according to statistics published wednesday through the country’s ministry of fitness, the number of cases in Europe.
The number of infections will rise in mid-July, shortly after the country lifted its lockdowns, and the country is now dealing with a momentary wave of Covid-19 much larger than its first surge in March.
Some 34,366 more people in Spain have died from the virus, more or less on par with the number of deaths in France and Italy, Spain has recorded an average of less than one hundred deaths daily in the last two weeks, well below its peak at the end of March of more than 800 deaths in line with the day.
Some Spanish authorities are calling for new restrictions on social estating, but political stagnation has provoked a slow response: madrid City Council, the country’s largest city and the maximum dominance affected by the virus, has traditionally resisted blocking measures. week, however, some local politicians are more open to a curfew as cases multiply.
When the coronavirus first hit Europe in the spring, Spain imposed one of the continent’s strictest closures. The country began reopening in June, almost without delay after the number of instances decreased, and many citizens temporarily retreated to the trip, gathering in crowded nightclubs and collecting in giant groups. Cases are on the rise again, a trend that some experts have attributed to the immediate return to spain’s normality, deficiencies in its public fitness infrastructure and excessive political polarization. But this month, the country again imposed some local restrictions, and there may be another curfew in sight.
“To be very clear: very hard weeks are coming,” Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa said Wednesday.
Other European countries are also facing a coronavirus resurgence: France closed the bar and instituted curfews in cities like Paris on Monday, while the country set new daily infection records almost every week. The UK also imposes regional closures and stricter estating regulations for immediate cumulation in cases.
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I’m a last-minute news reporter in Forbes. Previously, I covered local news for the Boston Guardian and graduated from Tufts University in 2019.
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