A 78-year-old woman of Latin American origin is the first prisoner to die in Spain affected by coronavirus, after being evacuated last day to the Arganda del Rey hospital (Madrid), while 38 prison officials have tested positive for Covid-19. .

This has been indicated to Efe this Tuesday by sources from Penitentiary Institutions, who have specified that the woman, with various previous pathologies, was admitted to the Estremera prison in Madrid, from where two other inmates admitted to that hospital also affected by the coronavirus come from. .

Another inmate, who is serving a sentence in the Álava prison, is the fourth inmate of a population of 50,800 who has contracted the virus, but has already been discharged, according to the same sources.

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