In an abrupt turnaround, U.S. President Donald Trump extended lockdown measures across the United States as deaths in New York from the new coronavirus passed 1,000.
Spain on Monday became the third country to surpass China in infections after the United States and Italy. With a population of only 47 million to China’s 1.4 billion, Spain’s tally of infections reached 85,195 on Monday, a rise of 8 per cent from the previous day.
Spain also reported 812 new deaths in the last day, raising its overall fatalities from the virus to 7,300. The health systems in Italy and Spain have been crumbling under the weight of caring for so many desperately ill patients at once.