The health ministry has announced 757 coronavirus fatalities over the past 24 hours, up from 743 the day before, representing the second daily spike in a row and taking the overall death toll to 14,555, which is the second-highest after Italy.
However, Health Minister Salvador Illa said the statistics are already pointing to a fall. The overall pace of raises dropped by nearly half from the end of March to around 5%.
Although, there’s growing concern that the official count is much lower than the true death toll.
In Madrid, the disparity between the number of burials recorded in the last two weeks of March and the death toll from the virus was slightly greater than the amount that died in 2018 over the same time, which indicated some of the pandemic’s fatalities had not been represented.
The elder community has especially been hard hit, with 4,750 deaths reported among Madrid’s community of about 50,000 nursing home residents in the past month, according to Ignacio Aguado, deputy regional chief. Approximately 3,749 of them showed symptoms close to coronavirus but were not tested, he noted, indicating they would not be in the formal count.
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