MADRID: Spain prepared to enter its third week under near-total lockdown on Sunday (Mar 29), as the government approved a strengthening of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus and the death toll rose by 838 cases overnight to 6,528.
Second only to Italy in fatalities, Spain also saw infections rise to 78,797 from 72,248 the day before. Advertisement Advertisement Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, in a televised address to the nation on Saturday night, announced that all non-essential