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Horrifying images show coronavirus patients lying on the floor of a packed Madrid hospital as city is overrun with cases and country's death toll tops 2,000 with 462 victims in past 24 hours
The scenes were reportedly recorded at the Infanta Leonor Hospital and the Severo Ochoa de Leganes Hospital in the Spanish capital Madrid. The shocking video shows some patients coughing deeply as a medic stands nearby and some of those on the floor also appear to be hooked up to oxygen tanks. A second clip shows a health worker walking through the packed corridors of the Severo Ochoa de Leganes Hospital, with patients lining the corridors on gurneys, with many heard coughing too. Local newspaper El Mundo reported that the second hospital confirmed they 'are not admitting more patients' as they are at 'maximum capacity'.
Horrifying images show coronavirus patients lying on the floor of a packed Madrid hospital as city is overrun with cases and country's death toll tops 2,000 with 462 victims in past 24 hours
By AMELIA WYNNE and RITA SOBOT FOR MAILONLINE
- The shocking clip from a Madrid hospital shows some patients coughing deeply as a medic stands nearby
- Some of those waiting on the floor also appear to be hooked up to oxygen tanks with hospital at full capacity
- Clips were reportedly filmed at the Infanta Leonor Hospital and Severo Ochoa de Leganes Hospital in Madrid
- Spain's death toll today surged by 462 taking the total to 2,182, while 33,089 cases have now been confirmed
- Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and should you see a doctor?
PUBLISHED: 10:12, 23 March 2020 | UPDATED: 16:51, 23 March 2020
Terrifying footage from inside a Spanish hospital shows coughing coronavirus patients lying on the floor of a corridor as they wait to be seen by medical staff.
The shocking clip shows some patients coughing deeply as a medic stands nearby and some of those on the floor appear to be hooked up to oxygen tanks.
The scenes were recorded at the Infanta Leonor Hospital and the Severo Ochoa de Leganes Hospital in the Spanish capital Madrid, according to El Mundo.
The video which was reported locally was shared online to urge people to follow social distancing measures being enforced in countries across the world.
Spain's death toll jumped to more than 2,000 today - an increase of 462 deaths - with 33,089 cases of the infection now recorded.
Madrid has recorded 58 per cent of the country's deaths and the crisis has brought the healthcare system to the brink of collapse.
The country is in danger of becoming the new epicentre of the outbreak in Europe, with Italy's latest figures offering some hope that the crisis there could start to ease.
Spain's deputy prime minister Carmen Calvo is among those awaiting urgent test results today after he was taken to hospital with a respiratory infection on Sunday.
+28This photo, believed to have been taken at the Severo Ochoa de Leganes Hospital in Madrid, shows patients on the floor in the Spanish capital which has been hard hit by the coronavirus outbreak
+28Patients were lying on the floor of a corridor in this hospital in Madrid, with Spain's death toll from the coronavirus outbreak surging by 462 to pass 2,000 today
+28This chart shows how the number of coronavirus cases has increased from 45 at the start of March to more than 33,000
+28This chart shows the rising death toll in selected countries including Spain, which is the third-worst affected country in the world after Italy and China
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A Spanish medical worker from the country's National Health System administers a test to a motorist while wearing a mface mask at a drive-through Burger King in Coruna today
The latest escalation in Spain's crisis came as:In the first clip in Spain, reportedly recorded at the Infanta Leonor Hospital, patients can be seen lying on the floors of the corridors with face masks on and bedsheets below them.
- Pressure mounted on Boris Johnson to impose a full-scale lockdown in the UK, after some parks and Underground trains remained packed despite warnings to practise social distancing;
- France began building military field hospitals to deal with coronavirus patients, while two more doctors died after being infected with the pathogen;
- The head of Germany's public health institute claimed that the rate of infection could be flattening off, while the country's death rate remained strikingly low;
- There were fears of a second peak of virus cases in China after patients who had imported the virus from abroad began spreading it to others;
- Donald Trump gave himself a 15-day deadline to decide 'which way we want to go', suggesting that America's lockdown measures could be lifted as he warned 'we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself';
- The worldwide death toll from the virus is now over 15,000, while more than one billion people in more than 50 countries have been ordered to stay indoors to contain the pandemic.
People can be heard coughing in the packed corridor as other patients sit on the rows of chairs.
A second clip shows a health worker walking through the packed corridors of the Severo Ochoa de Leganes Hospital, with patients lining the corridors on gurneys, with many heard coughing too.
Local newspaper El Mundo report the second hospital confirmed they 'are not admitting more patients' as they are at 'maximum capacity'.
The newspaper report representative for the General Union of Workers Javier Garcia said the situation at the hospital is 'dramatic' with the emergency ward 'at three times its capacity' and 'people without a bed, sitting on plastic chairs for more than 30 hours'.
Garcia added: 'This morning I saw a person on the floor between two seats. Emotionally, this is terrible.'
Mercedes, a representative for the Workers' Commissions union, said that on Friday morning there had been 240 people in the hospital's emergency ward when the capacity is 80 patients.