FILE PHOTO: A medical staff member administers a PCR test to a nursing home worker during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Durango, Spain, January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Vincent West
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa will resign next week to campaign in regional elections in Catalonia, an official from his party said on Thursday, while national authorities reported a record 44,357 new daily coronavirus cases.
"By Thursday of next week at 12 midnight, he will have given up his portfolio," Miquel Iceta, the secretary of the Catalan Socialist Party, said in a news conference.
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