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Europe’s Virus Carnage Has Italy, Spain Grasping for Answers
- Spain reports deadliest day while seeking to tighten lockdown
- U.K. should keep lockdown maybe until early June, adviser says
A hospital worker wheels a coronavirus patient into a waiting ambulance to be taken to another sanitary center at the Severo Ochoa hospital in Madrid, on March 27.
Photographer: Denis Doyle/Getty Images
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Italy’s coronavirus death toll topped 10,000 and Spain reported its deadliest day yet, leaving leaders of both countries groping for ways to tackle the crisis with Europe split along economic fault lines.