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&nbsp;Monday, Sep 12th 2022| 19kSpain's death toll from the coronavirus epidemic soared by 209 to 767 fatalities from the previous day.The total number of coronavirus cases in the country climbed by a quarter to 17,147 today, Spain's health ministry said.&nbsp;&nbsp;On Wednesday there were 13,716 cases in Spain, according to official figures.Two crematoriums in Madrid have reported started operating 24 hours a day to deal with the surge in deaths.According to , both crematoriums are operating with a 48-hour delay due to the huge number of dead bodies in the Spanish capital.&nbsp;Spanish authorities have also transformed a four-star Madrid hotel into a medical care facility to treat people with mild cases of coronavirus.In a bid to ease pressure on hospitals grappling with the pandemic, regional authorities in the capital, the area of Spain hardest-hit by the outbreak, said today they plan to re-purpose more hotels over the coming days to treat coronavirus patients. This will help 'alleviate the pressure' on hospitals which are starting to become overcrowded and free up beds for more seriously ill patients, the regional government of Madrid said in a statement.Ambulances transported patients to the 359-room Gran Hotel Colon, which is about a 10-minute walk from the Gregorio Maranon hospital, one of the Spanish capital's biggest.The hotel is made up of two buildings which are linked by a large garden and art gallery.Medical staff wearing white protective suits, face masks and gloves then began escorting patients inside the building under the glare of TV cameras which were kept at a distance.Another four-star Madrid hotel, the Marriott Auditorium, is scheduled to start receiving patients on Friday.Hoteliers have offered regional authorities the use of a total of 40 hotels in the Madrid region with 9,000 beds to treat coronavirus patients, according to Madrid's main hotel association.The hotels will be used to house patients 'whose symptoms require medical attention without the need to be hospitalised, both at the start of the disease as well as during the final phase,' the regional government statement said. Spain on Thursday announced that deaths from the novel coronavirus had jumped by nearly 30 percent over the past 24 hours to 767, while the total number of confirmed cases of the disease jumped by around 25 percent to 17,147.Madrid accounts for 40 per cent of the total infections in Spain and two-thirds of the deaths.Spain has the fourth-highest number of confirmed cases of the virus in the word after China, Italy and Iran and many of its hotels are being emptied by the pandemic.Yesterday British tourists were told to leave&nbsp;within days after the Spanish government announced that all hotels would close from next Tuesday.The Foreign Office warned British travellers to 'make travel plans to return as soon as possible' after Madrid announced the shutdown.&nbsp;Holidaymakers are urged to 'contact their tour operator or airline as soon as possible' to make arrangements to fly home.&nbsp;Spain has imposed a near-total lockdown and banned people from leaving their homes except to go to work, buy food or receive medical care.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 'The Spanish government have confirmed that all hotels will close in Spain from Tuesday 24 March,' the FCO said in a statement.&nbsp;'We therefore advise British travellers in Spain to contact their tour operator or airline as soon as possible, to arrange their return journey home before this date.'&nbsp;&nbsp;The outbreak in Spain has become the worst in Europe outside Italy, with more than 13,700 people infected and 598 dead.&nbsp;Britons made nearly 19million visits to Spain last year, and many British expats live in the country, meaning many holiday plans are likely to be ruined by the outbreak.&nbsp;Other British tourists are facing a similar struggle to get home from countries including Morocco and Cyprus.&nbsp;Holidaymakers struggling to return home have accused airlines of leaving them stranded and demanding extortionate fees.&nbsp;Tom Widdall, who is in Morocco with his heavily pregnant girlfriend, was due to fly home from Agadir to Manchester on Saturday, but his easyJet flight was cancelled. He said he has been unable to get on to an earlier flight and claimed he has been 'abandoned by easyJet and abandoned by the embassy'.EasyJet told passengers it is 'doing all we can to assist'.&nbsp;Spain has declared a state of alert, shutting all but essential services and ordering its population of 46 million people to stay at home.&nbsp;People are only allowed to go out to buy food or medicine, to go to work or to get medical treatment.sharesFines for breaching the rules can be up to 30,000 euros (£27,200) and a public address system is reinforcing the message in Spanish, Catalan, English and German.&nbsp;&nbsp;Madrid remains the worst-hit area, accounting for 5,637 cases, or 41 percent of the infections in Spain, while the death toll there rose to 390 - around two-thirds of the national total.The number of infections could well be higher, because Spain - like many other countries - has been struggling with a shortage of testing kits.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In Madrid alone, the health authorities said they were in touch with more than 20,000 patients by phone.&nbsp;Health minister Fernando Simon said on Tuesday that the patients interviewed were a mixture of 'confirmed and suspected' cases.Spain is now set to receive a new batch of testing kits, meaning medics will 'run tests on anyone showing symptoms,' the health minister said today.&nbsp;The minister warned it could 'substantially increase' the number of positive cases.Earlier, prime minister Pedro Sanchez warned that the virus had not yet peaked in Spain in an address to a nearly-empty parliament. 'The worst is yet to come, as our health system feels the impact of caring for such a huge number of infected people, as the days of isolation drag on, when we feel the economic impact' of the pandemic, he said.'I am asking you to make sacrifices but I'm also calling for unity... it is what we have to do to save many lives,' he said.&nbsp; Sanchez's government officially declared the 15-day state of emergency on Saturday.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is only the second such declaration since the country returned to democracy following the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.The other time was during a 2010 air traffic controllers' strike.&nbsp;The Foreign Office is now advising against all but essential international travel, including to Spain, because of the coronavirus outbreak.&nbsp;&nbsp;Share what you thinkThe comments below have not been moderated.The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.We are no longer accepting comments on this article.Published by Associated Newspapers LtdPart of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday &amp; Metro Media Group&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

&nbsp;Monday, Sep 12th 2022| 19kSpain's death toll from the coronavirus epidemic soared by 209 to 767 fatalities from the previous day.The total number of coronavirus cases in the country climbed by a quarter to 17,147 today, Spain's health ministry said.&nbsp;&nbsp;On Wednesday there were 13,716 cases in Spain, according to official figures.Two crematoriums in Madrid have reported started operating 24 hours a day to deal with the surge in deaths.According to , both crematoriums are operating with a 48-hour delay due to the huge number of dead bodies in the Spanish capital.&nbsp;Spanish...

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