FILE PHOTO: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Parliament in Madrid, Spain, March 18, 2020. Mariscal/Pool via REUTERS
MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government sought to extend until April 11 a state of emergency that it has imposed to try to control Europe's second-worst outbreak of coronavirus while some regions on Sunday asked for harsher confinement measures to combat the pandemic.
Spain's death toll jumped to over 1,700, with more than 28,000 cases of infection.
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