Spain registers 12,423 COVID-19 cases Thursday and 126 deaths

SPAIN registered 12,423 COVID-19 cases by PCR and anitgen rapid tests on Thursday.

Of these, 5,585 are from tests taken in the past 24 hours while 3,152 – almost a quarter – correspond to Madrid.

Meanwhile there have been 126 deaths due to coronavirus over the same period.

Over the past seven days the virus has caused 421 deaths nationwide.

It brings the total death toll since the pandemic began in Spain to 32,688.

This figure does not include nursing home deaths or people who died with symptoms of coronavirus but were not tested.

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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