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Record death toll in Spain but new infections slowing, say officials

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Once again, Spain hit a new record with 849 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours today, although health chiefs said the rate of new infections was continuing its downward trend.

After Italy, Spain has suffered the world's second most deadly outbreak which has now claimed 8,189 lives there. The latest figures came a day after the death toll fell slightly, raising hopes the epidemic could be peaking.

Confirmed cases of the virus rose by about 11% to 94,417. That figure was seen as a setback after a week in which the rate had been steadily failing, with Monday's figures having shown a rise of just over 8.0 percent.

In percentage terms, however, the pace of increases in both contagion and deaths has slowed somewhat in the past few days, health

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