Spain’s daily death toll slips to 523, as testing ramps up

The health ministry, the daily number of deaths from Covid-19 in Spain declined modestly on Wednesday to 523 from 567 the previous day. The PM said, the country was ramping up testing which could allow it to ease the lockdown restrictions. Spain is among the world’s worst affected countries with 18,579 deaths just behind US and Italy. The total infected cases stood at 177,633 on Wed.