The death toll continues to rise in Spain, which has suffered the third highest casualties after the U.S. and Italy.

The country has so far reported more than 195,944 confirmed cases, an increase of at least 4,218 cases in the last 24 hours.

As a country with the second-highest coronavirus cases after the U.S., Spain has reported more than 97,948 active cases.

While at least 7,371 hospitalized people are in intensive care, more than 77,357 patients have been discharged from hospitals after being cured.

The number of infected is considered to be higher than the confirmed tally due to lack of testing; only those with severe symptoms are offered tests and this likely lags symptom onset by as much as a week.

The total number of infected could be ten times higher than confirmed cases, or even more than that.

Deaths are also underestimated, because some people are not tested before they die due to health system failure and many elderly people are dying at home or in nursing homes without being diagnosed with the virus. (ILKHA)