BARCELONA (Reuters) - The coronavirus mortality rate among some of the poorest Catalans is five times higher than among the wealthiest residents of the Spanish region, a study showed, in the latest evidence of how COVID-19 hits the needy hardest.
The northeastern region of Catalonia, which makes up a sixth of Spain's 47 million population, has the second highest number of registered coronavirus cases and deaths among regions.
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