Posted on 03/24/2020 9:08:36 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
The coronavirus death toll in Spain has jumped by 514 in a single day, as the situation in the country quickly worsens.
Official figures show that 2,696 people have now died in the country and close to 40,000 are infected.
About 5,400 health care workers are among those confirmed cases.
Spain is the worst affected country in Europe after Italy, which has recorded more than 6,000 deaths so far. What's the latest in Spain?
While cases have been mostly concentrated in Madrid, Catalonia and the Basque Country, infection numbers are growing in other regions.
Castilia-La Mancha and Castilla y Leon, which border the capital, have seen a big jump in cases. Both regions have large elderly populations.
The police criticised "irresponsible people" on Tuesday, including some who have left hospitals without being formally discharged.
In the capital Madrid, meanwhile, the municipal funeral home has stopped collecting Covid-19 victims because of a lack of protective equipment.
The city is to use a major ice rink, the Palacio de Hielo (Ice Palace), as a temporary mortuary where bodies will be stored until funeral homes can collect them, officials told Spanish media.
The images are sobering - hearses bringing coffins of the dead to a large municipal ice rink in Madrid.
Mortuaries, as well as hospitals, are overwhelmed. Though the daily tally of dead has worsened remorselessly, there might be one crumb of comfort -- the rate of rise has slowed for the last three days consecutively.
The military is helping transport patients, to ease the burden on hospitals where doctors and nurses are worked to exhaustion.
But the number of cases continues to rise alarmingly - amid fears about the spread of the disease countrywide.
Spain's latest figures come after soldiers helping to combat the outbreak found retirement home patients abandoned and
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Just as Italy deaths may have or are close to peaking, Spain gets ugly which I think people predicted a week or 10 days ago.
Madrid’s population is higher than Milan, so this could become more explosive.
When the Italian outbreak began, many of the towns first mentioned were smaller, and then we began to hear about Milan and Venice.
Is this a Hispanic issue?
Are there a lot of Hispanics in China, Korea and Iran?
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/27/c_137854310.htm
BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — “The growth of Chinese tourists visiting Spain could be described as spectacular,” Dario Polo Rodriguez, tourism counselor of the Spanish Embassy in China, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
In 2018, China overtook Japan to become Spain’s largest source of Asian tourists, and consolidated itself as a strategic market, according to Polo.
“Despite the delay in recognizing the potential of the Chinese market, Spain has been redoubling efforts to offer a pleasant experience to the growing number of Chinese visitors to the country,” Polo said.
During the Lunar New Year holidays, many Chinese chose to travel abroad, and Spain was among the most popular destinations.
Spain was the number one destination in Europe visited by the Chinese during the Spring Festival holiday season, followed by Italy, according to a report issued by Dragon Trail, a travel marketing consultant firm.]
Was Spain on the Silk Road, too?
Damned tapas bars!
I knew the answer. Was just adding to the debunking of a theory someone postulated.
If tourism is a disease vector, we’re in for it. ~3m Chinese tourists visited the US in 2019. That’s vs ~600K in Spain.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-tourism-to-u-s-drops-for-1st-time-in-15-years-amid-trade-war/
Yes. Spain is a little further along than we are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic#Epidemiology
Spain
Cases 42,058
Deaths 2,991
Recoveries 3,794
United States
Cases 55,233
Deaths 797
Recoveries 379
Another thing to consider, is that we have much more tourism within our country—that is, domestic tourism.
Italy just confessed that anyone who died of anything but tested + for corona was considered a corona death. Is Spain doing the same?
[Italy just confessed that anyone who died of anything but tested + for corona was considered a corona death. Is Spain doing the same?]
Spain has a population of about 46.5 million.
What would we do without you continuously posting these?
All this was caused by closing the shops. Keep them open and let people mingle. It’s just the flu bro
You asked “Is this a Hispanic issue?”
Yes, the virus targets onoy Hispanics. First it targeted only Chinese, then targeted only Iranians, then only Italians and now only Hispanics as it heads west.
American numbers are still less than the four. Why worry? What happened in Hubei, Iran m Italy, Spain etc can’t happen in the USA. It’s a Chinese, Iranian Italian Hispanic virus
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