With a total 117,710 confirmed cases, Spain is now second in the number of infections only to the United States, which has a population some seven times larger. Spain's total death toll now stands at 10,935, second only to Italy's 13,915 fatalities. Fashion giant Inditex's logistic centres in Spain - the nerve centre of its global retail empire - are working at minimum activity. Soldiers and firefighters set up an emergency hospital on Friday in a sports centre in the Catalan town of Sabadell. The region is Spain's most populous and second worst-hit after Madrid.

Source: bd News24 April 04, 2020 06:22 UTC