MADRID (REUTERS) - Spain's official coronavirus death toll edged higher again on Wednesday (April 8), but questions persisted over the veracity of numbers and the main business lobby warned the economy may slump up to 9 per cent this year.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MADRID - Spain's official coronavirus death toll edged higher again on Wednesday , but questions persisted over the veracity of numbers and the main business lobby warned the economy may slump up to 9 per cent this year.
In Madrid, the difference between the number of burials reported in the last two weeks of March and the death toll from the virus was substantially higher than the number who died over the same period in 2018. That suggested some casualties of the epidemic were not reflected. Some 3,749 of them had coronavirus-like symptoms but were not tested, he added, meaning they would not be in the official tally.Health Emergency Chief Fernando Simon said infections had peaked and should herald an end to the lockdown. But he added:"We will all have to be much more careful of our actions in this second phase to stop the epidemic resurging."
She also said it was"urgent" that EU ministers reach an agreement on economic support for coronavirus-stricken economies on Thursday after they failed in all-night talks that ended early on Wednesday morning. BURY ONE, ANOTHER WAITING At the Sur de Madrid cemetery, Reuters TV footage showed local priest Eduard Batubenga giving a short funeral prayer next to a hearse carrying the body of an elderly woman who died at a nursing home from the Covid-19 disease."While you are doing one, the other is waiting in line," Batubenga said, explaining that daily funerals had shot up to around 40 from 10-15"on a bad day" before the epidemic.
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