Most of the country’s regional governments are in favor of perimetral lockdowns during the spring break, with the Health Ministry seeking a countrywide agreement on restrictions
Hospitalizations and intensive care unit occupation rates are also down, with the lowest percentage of Covid patients in regular beds since December 24
100,000 Spanish dead in pandemic: PSOE-Podemos regime ends restrictions
Over 100,000 people have died in Spain as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Spain’s National Institute of Statistics (INE), an official state agency.
The INE reports that in the year between 9 February 2020 and 13 February 2021, there were a total of 471,447 deaths in Spain, 103,512 more than in the same period the previous year. February 13 also marked a year since the first officially recognised coronavirus death in Spain, that of a 69-year-old man from the town of L’Eliana, Valencia, recently returned from a trip to Nepal.
Members of Military Emergency Unit arrive at Abando train station, in Bilbao, northern Spain earlier this year. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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