The coronavirus death toll in Spain has risen by 619 overnight to 16,972, the health ministry has said. The number of deaths rose from 16,353 recorded the previous day, breaking a three-day streak of daily declines. The pope’s Easter “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world message) delivered from an empty St. Peter’s Basilica instead of to the usual crowd of tens of thousands in the square outside, was by far his most pressing and political since his election in 2013. Saying the message of this year’s “Easter of solitude” should be a “contagion of hope,” he heaped … Continue reading The coronavirus death toll in Spain has risen by 619 overnight to 16,972