Spain is first western European country to pass 1m Covid cases

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Six weeks after becoming the first western European country to record 500,000 coronavirus cases, Spain has become the first to record a million, registering a total of 1,005,295 infections by Wednesday evening.

It has also recorded 575 deaths over the past week, bringing the official number of Covid deaths to 34,366.