COVID-19: Spain daily death toll rises to 619, breaks 3-day streak of decline

Health officials in Spain have revealed that the daily death toll arising from the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus has risen by 619 on Sunday from a nearly three-week low of 510 on Saturday.

The new figure breaks a three-day streak of daily declines taking the country’s death toll to 16,972.

Meanwhile, the United States has overtaken Italy as the country with the highest number of coronavirus-related deaths, recording 20,608 fatalities, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally.

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In a related development, Pope Francis offered a Easter Sunday prayer for those killed and suffering from the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 100,000 people worldwide.

“Today my thoughts turn in the first place to the many who have been directly affected by the coronavirus: the sick, those who have died and family members who mourn the loss of their loved ones, to whom, in some cases, they were unable even to bid a final farewell,” the pope said in a livestreamed message from an empty Saint Peter’s Basilica.

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