MADRID, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Commenting on the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Spain, the country's Health Minister Salvador Illa said on Tuesday that the current situation is different from that of March, when the government was forced to call a State of Alarm and impose a lockdown.
According to Health Ministry figures, Spain now has 671,468 confirmed COVID-19 cases, and the number of new cases has increased by almost 62,000 in the last seven days and by 131,722 in the past 14 days.
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