India, April 22 -- In Europe, Spain, with a population of 46 million, is closely following the footsteps of Italy in terms of COVID-19 fatalities. It has suffered more deaths per million inhabitants than any other nation with the death toll crossing 20,000 on April 17. There were more than 9,000 new cases on March 31 and 950 deaths on April 2, the biggest daily death figure. These horrific statistics were provided by the Spanish Government's top scientific advisor on the pandemic, Fernando Simon. Immunologist Alexander Edgar of the University of Reading said, "A lot of the spread had happened before people realised. Most of them assumed that the problem was elsewhere - Wuhan, which was shut off since January."

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