Nursing home deaths make up a third of Spanish coronavirus toll - local radio

MADRID (Reuters) - A total of 1,307 elderly residents of Spanish nursing homes have died from coronavirus, roughly a third of the country's total death toll, radio network Cadena Ser said on Thursday in an update of its analysis that earlier pointed to 397 deaths.

In the Madrid region alone, nursing home deaths totalled 855 since the start of the epidemic, the radio network said. The radio network cited data collected by its local stations across Spain.