Experts: Spain losing second round of fight

Barcelona, August 13

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As Spain hospitals begin to see Covid patients returning, experts say the country appears to have been losing its second round of virus fight.

Rafael Bengoa, ex-health chief of Spain’s Basque Country region and international consultant on public health, said, “The numbers are saying that where we had good local epidemiological tracking, things have gone well. But in other parts of the country, we have community transmission again.”

Manuel Franco, a professor of epidemiology at John Hopkins and Spain’s University of Alcalá, cited Spain’s economic inequalities that have exposed poorer communities, especially fruit pickers, to greater harm, understaffed epidemiological surveillance services, and its large tourism industry. — AP