The Spanish military forces, which started providing support missions in the country's nursing homes, have found bodies in a number of these centers that have remained in the owners ’rooms alongside their residents.
"The army has found elderly people abandoned or even dead while in their beds in one of the nursing homes affected by the emerging corona virus," Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles said in an interview with private television channel Tele Cinco.
The elderly care centers witnessed an almost complete absence of staff, as they found incapacitated elderly people with no one caring for them, after the Coruna virus also started spreading among the employees.
The situation in the homes of the elderly led the central government to issue an order for direct intervention by the army, in an attempt to alleviate the crisis.
Earlier, local officials said that an ice skating rink inside a shopping center in Madrid had been turned into a temporary morgue, to deal with the high number of deaths in the Spanish capital due to the Corona virus.
A spokeswoman for the Madrid City Council said that the skating rink in the Palacio de Helo (Snow Palace) shopping center, which can accommodate about 1800 skiers, will be used to "save bodies".
The death toll from the Corona virus in Spain, one of the most affected countries in the world, rose to 2,182 today, Monday, after 462 people died in 24 hours, and more than half of the deaths were recorded in Madrid.
The Madrid municipality announced that the 14 general graves in the city would stop accepting more bodies because the staff there did not have adequate equipment for protection.