FILE PHOTO: Carmen Gonzalez talks to her daughter from a distance on the first day family visits are resumed after three months amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak at the nursing home Centro Casaverde in Navalcarnero, outside Madrid, Spain, June 8, 2020. REUTERS/Susana Vera/File Photo
MADRID (Reuters) - Families for elderly Spanish coronavirus victims are initiating hundreds of compensation and criminal claims for nursing home residents who died often without hospital care in a legal morass that could affect the delicate national political balance.
Spain has been one of the worst-hit countries from COVID-19, with more than 28,000 deaths officially reported and a much higher-than-average fatality rate of six per 10,000 people.
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