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Spotlight: European countries set record COVID-19 daily numbers as Spain's total cases top 1 mln

By Unreguser, Meng Dingbo, Guo Mingfang, Yuanliang, Yuan Liang, Zhao Feifei, Pangeping, Pan Geping, Peng Lijun, M OritzRommerskirchen, Zhang Yirong, Yangxiaohong, Yang Xiaohong, GHISLAINZOBIYO, JurajKorbler, Zhang Jiawei, Zhangzhang and Zhang Zhang

Thursday, 22 Oct 2020 | 6:21 AM MYT

MADRID/BRUSSELS, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Countries in Europe saw their daily coronavirus infection numbers set new records yet again on Wednesday as Spain's total cases reached 1,005,295, becoming the first country in the European Union (EU) whose COVID-19 cases have topped one million.

In the past weeks, daily records of COVID-19 cases in many European countries have been smashed repeatedly as the continent took the brunt of surges in the second wave of the pandemic.