A florist hands a bouquet of flowers to a health worker outside the Burgos Hospital (UBU) on March 21, 2020, in Burgos, in northern Spain. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP)
MADRID — Spain on Sunday announced 394 new deaths caused by the novel coronavirus, raising to 1,720 the official death toll in Europe’s worst-hit country after Italy, a 30 percent increase over the previous day.
The number of confirmed cases of the disease rose by 3,646, or 14.6 percent, to 28,572, according to health ministry figures, with officials warning infections will rise further in the coming days.
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