Spain has become the third country to surpass China’s coronavirus infection after the number of cases rose nearly 6,400 overnight.
On Monday, Spanish Health authorities announced that they had diagnosed a total of 85,195 cases of the disease, China has reported more than 82,000 cases.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez
The US and Italy were the first two countries to surpass China’s figure with 140,000 and 100, 000 confirmed cases respectively.
Spain’s death toll also increased by 812 overnight from 6,528 to 7,340 after Sunday’s total of 838 marked the country’s worst day of the pandemic so far.
Italy remains the country that has recorded larger one-day death totals than Spain after 969 people died between Thursday and Friday.
Health workers keep a minute of silence after the death of a doctor from coronavirus at the Quiron Hospital in Barcelona