Coronavirus: Spain's death toll surges past 1,000

At least 1,000 people have now died in Spain from the coronavirus, while the total number of infections in the country has reached almost 20,000.

The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has also risen in the last 24 hours to more than 3,400, overtaking the total number of deaths so far registered



in China, officials said.

More than 209,000 people have now been infected by the coronavirus globally and more than 8,700 have died, according to the World Health Organization.

At least 86,000 have recovered from COVID-19, according to data collected by the Johns Hopkins University in the US.