NPR: Spain’s Coronavirus Death Toll Soars Past China’s, Trailing Only Italy
Spain is now the second European country with a death toll higher than China’s. Spain’s health ministry says it is buying more than 5 million coronavirus “quick tests” from China.
The details coming out of Spain are grim. The Washington Post reports:
Covid-19, the disease that develops from the novel coronavirus, is particularly dangerous for the elderly and has swept through the country’s nursing homes. The military took control of all residential facilities this week, making macabre discoveries when they did so. In a television interview, Defense Minister Margarita Robles said soldiers had found elderly residents abandoned by staff and left “dead in their beds.”
