Spain becomes first western European country with one million Covid-19 cases

Homeless people sleep on a square where restaurants are closed due to sharpest resurgences of coronavirus in Barcelona, Spain (Emilio Morenatti/AP)

Spain became the first country in western Europe to accumulate more than one million confirmed Covid-19 infections as the nation of 47 million struggles to contain a resurgence of the virus.

The health ministry on Wednesday said that its accumulative case load since the start of the pandemic reached 1,005,295 after reporting 16,973 more cases in the past 24 hours.