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Heartbreaking Images From Spain Show How The Country Is Struggling With Coronavirus

While the numbers of coronavirus cases from China, Italy and the United States have been particularly high, Spain too is dealing with a catastrophe of an immense scale. The death toll in Spain has been alarming, with nearly 950 reported deaths in a day. In fact, the country has the world’s second-highest COVID-19 death toll after Italy at 10,003. Here are some heartbreaking pictures from inside Spain.

Anuj Tiwari Updated on Apr 03, 2020, 15:20 IST

While the numbers of coronavirus cases from China, Italy and the United States have been particularly high, Spain too is dealing with a catastrophe of an immense scale. The death toll in Spain has been alarming, with nearly 950 reported deaths in a day. In fact, the country has the world’s second-highest COVID-19 death toll after Italy at 10,003. Here are some heartbreaking pictures from inside Spain.

The number of coffins in this image show the scale of deaths in Spain. Coronavirus cases have now passed the million mark?and more than 53,000 deaths have been reported according to a Reuters tally.

A health worker breaks down even as the number of cases in Spain continue to rise.??It?took 76 days from January 10 for the first 500,000 cases of?coronavirus?to be reported. That figure doubled in the next eight days.

Barring Italy, the coronavirus has killed more people in Spain than anywhere else, in the process overloading the public health system and triggering a lockdown that has brought economic activity to a virtual standstill.

Spain’s death toll from the coronavirus rose above 10,000 on Thursday after a record 950 people died overnight, but health officials were encouraged by a slowdown in daily increases in infections and deaths.

Hospitals are overflowing with coronavirus cases. So much so, that patients are being stationed in corridors.

Ambulance workers help an elderly woman get into an ambulance.

Funeral workers wearing protective suits carry a coffin out of the morgue at Severo Ochoa Hospital.

Spain has been in lockdown since March 14, and as of this week, only employees in essential sectors are permitted to travel to and from work.

Medical workers hug each other outside the emergency rooms at Severo Ochoa Hospital. The hospital staff including nurses and doctors are putting their own lives at risk everyday.

Even temporary hospitals are now packed to the brim with coronavirus patients. Nursing homes, whose elderly residents are highly vulnerable to the disease, have been particularly hard hit.

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Anuj Tiwari writes stories for SEO and is a Youtube wizard. An engineer turned social media champ, he keeps a track of all that goes around the world. His interest areas include historic events, political and social-sciences.

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