Still unexplained
The hunt for the origins of Covid-19 has for the past four years been a tangled web of politics, power struggles, and international finger-pointing.
The death toll from novel coronavirus has remained unchanged in Spain for nine consecutive days, the data published by the Spanish Ministry of Health showed on Tuesday.
A total of 27,136 people have lost their lives to COVID-19, according to the data.
Tuesday also saw 76 new cases of COVID-19 detected by PCR tests, compared to 40 registered in the previous 24-hour period, taking the total number to 244,328.
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Among the new cases, 56 were from Madrid and Catalonia, while none of Spain’s remaining Autonomous Communities reported more than three infections.
Meanwhile, the Basque region in the north of Spain and the neighbouring Autonomous Community of Cantabria on Tuesday both confirmed they would be ending the State of Alarm on June 19 — two days before the rest of the country.
Last month, Spain’s equality minister had tested positive for coronavirus and was quarantined with her partner.
The World Health Organization (WHO) earlier had declared the outbreak a pandemic as Italy tightened its strict quarantine and the United States imposed a ban on flights to Europe.
WHO had also said that the COVID-19 outbreak can be characterized as a “pandemic” as the virus spreads increasingly worldwide.
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