MADRID - Spanish public prosecutors said on Wednesday they have opened an investigation into a Madrid retirement home where 19 people may have died from the coronavirus.
Relatives of residents at the privately-run Monte Hermoso facility in Madrid told AFP and other media that at least 70 of its 130 residents were infected and in isolation, and at least 15 had died from Covid-19. The public prosecutors' office for the province of Madrid said it has opened a criminal investigation after receiving a complaint from an association called the Patients Ombudsman saying that"at least" 19 people had died at the home.
On Wednesday, the regional government of Castile-La Mancha in the centre of Spain said 15 people had died due to the virus at a private care facility for seniors in the town of Tomelloso.
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