More than 900 COVID-19 deaths in Spain for second consecutive day

Spain has the world’s second-highest death toll after Italy with the COVID-19 virus so far claiming 10,935 lives — 932 in the past day — from 117,710 confirmed cases.

Madrid: More than 900 people died in Spain over the past 24 hours for the second day running, government figures showed on Friday, although the rate of new COVID-19 infections and deaths continued to slow.

Spain has the world’s second-highest death toll after Italy with the COVID-19 virus so far claiming 10,935 lives — 932 in the past day — from 117,710 confirmed cases.

The latest number show the rate of infections up by 6.8 percent, compared with 7.9 percent on Thursday and 20 percent in the middle of last week.

The daily rise in deaths also slowed to 9.3 percent on Friday, down from 10.5 percent on Thursday, and a big drop from the 27-percent increase on March 25.

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