Thousands of kilometres from Canada, Angela Marti can only watch with concern as the number of cases and deaths back home from COVID-19 continues to rise, and as some Canadians defy orders from authorities to self-isolate and physically distance themselves from others.
She knows the dangers of complacency amid a viral pandemic. The London medical student is completing her PhD in neuroscience in Spain, a country that has been hit particularly hard by COVID-19.
Spain currently has more than 47,500 confirmed cases of COVID-19, fourth behind China, Italy and the United States. On Tuesday alone, the number of new confirmed cases shot up by nearly 6,600.