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Spain surpasses grim milestone of 70,000 Covid-19 deaths
ÁLVARO SOTO / MELCHOR SÁIZ-PARDO
The coronavirus pandemic has passed another grim milestone in Spain this Wednesday (3 March). The country has exceeded 70,000 deaths with Covid-19 after another 446 new deaths were added making the total 70,247, according to the official ... statistics released by the Ministry of Health. Of course, the department - headed by Carolina Darias - only records the deaths of individuals who had tested positive in a PCR test. But the excess mortality since last March is around 90,000 deaths, according