FILE PHOTO: An elderly woman arrives at a triage area at the Santa Maria hospital during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Lisbon, Portugal April 9, 2020. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante/File Photo
LISBON (Reuters) - The coronavirus outbreak spread further into Portuguese care homes over the Easter weekend, with 100 new cases of COVID-19 reported in a single residence and care homes accounting for around one in eight of the country's 504 deaths.
The death toll and 16,585 recorded cases are still a small fraction of the numbers in neighbouring Spain, but officials fear the disease could spread rapidly through care homes as it has in other parts of Europe.
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