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SPAIN

Spanish soldiers find bodies in retirement homes
AFP / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU
The ice rink at the Palacio de Hielo, or Ice Palace, shopping centre in Madrid was made into a morgue to deal with a surge in deaths in the capital
Spanish soldiers deployed to help fight the new coronavirus outbreak have found elderly patients abandoned, and sometimes dead, at retirement homes, as an ice rink inside a Madrid shopping mall was turned into a temporary morgue to cope with a surge in cases.

The army has been charged with helping to disinfect retirement homes in Spain, one of the countries worst hit by the pandemic. Dozens of deaths from COVID-19 have been recorded at facilities across the country.

“We are going to be strict and inflexible when dealing with the way old people are treated in these residences,” Defence Minister Margarita Robles said in an interview with private television channel Telecinco.

“The army, during certain visits, found some old people completely abandoned, sometimes even dead in their beds,” she added.

An investigation has been launched, the general prosecutor announced.

The coronavirus death toll in Spain surged to 2,182 on Monday after 462 people died within 24 hours, according to health ministry figures.

https://www.afp.com/en/news/3954/spanish-soldiers-find-bodies-retirement-homes-doc-1q44z84


663 posted on 03/23/2020 9:04:34 PM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: LilFarmer

Spain is quickly becoming/surpassing?? Italy. :(


682 posted on 03/23/2020 9:34:24 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: LilFarmer

Reminiscent of One Second After.


766 posted on 03/24/2020 12:58:17 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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