Agonizing Decisions Being Made in Spain’s Virus Hot Spots

Agonizing Decisions Being Made in Spain’s Virus Hot Spots
Julian Fernandez Mascaraque, 59, attends the burial of his mother Rosalia Mascaraque, 86, during the coronavirus outbreak in Zarza de Tajo, central Spain, on April 1, 2020. Bernat Armangue/AP Photo
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ZARZA DE TAJO, Spain—Raquel Fernández watched as cemetery workers lowered her grandmother’s casket into the grave and placed it on top of the coffin of her grandfather, buried just three days earlier.

Eusebio Fernández and Rosalía Mascaraque, both 86, are two of Spain’s more than 10,000 fatalities from the pandemic caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus.