Spain Announces Highest Daily Death Toll as Abandoned Elderly Found ‘Dead In Their Beds’

Spain Announces Highest Daily Death Toll as Abandoned Elderly Found ‘Dead In Their Beds’
Members of a military emergency unit arrive to carry out a general disinfection at a residence for the elderly in Madrid, Spain, on March 23, 2020. Oscar Del Pozo/AFP via Getty Images
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
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Spain has registered its highest daily COVID-19 death toll, as the country’s defense minister said emergency crews found elderly people left behind and dead in their beds.

According to a Johns Hopkins University tally, as of Monday at 2:55 pm ET, there were 33,089 confirmed cases of the respiratory disease in Spain, with 2,207 deaths. According to a Reuters tally, 462 people died there in the last 24 hours, the highest daily toll in the second-hardest European country to be hit by the CCP virus, after Italy.
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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