MADRID (Reuters) – Spain has become the first Western European country to record more than a million coronavirus infections since the onset of the pandemic, health ministry data showed on Wednesday, after 16,973 cases were added to the tally since the previous day.
The cumulative total now stands at 1,005,295 cases, while the death toll rose by 156 to 34,366.
(Reporting by Nathan Allen; Editing by Andrei Khalip)