{"id":41089,"date":"2020-03-25T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/spanish-soldiers-fighting-coronavirus-find\/"},"modified":"2020-03-25T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T20:20:08","slug":"spanish-soldiers-fighting-coronavirus-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/spanish-soldiers-fighting-coronavirus-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish soldiers fighting coronavirus find nursing homes full of &#8216;dead and abandoned&#8217; elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The army, during certain visits, found some older people completely abandoned, sometimes even dead in their beds,&#8221; Defense Minister Margarita Robles said on Monday, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be totally relentless and assertive over this,&#8221; she added, according to Turkish state-run news organization Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Robles said that staff members at some care homes had fled the premises after the virus was first detected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a clear message: The law will fall on all those who don\u2019t comply with their obligations in these residences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 40,000 cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in Spain as the country tracks only behind Italy among the hardest-hit countries in Europe. The country&#8217;s death toll is now at almost 2,800, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s deputy prime minister is currently hospitalized awaiting treatment for a respiratory infection and has been tested for the coronavirus, though the results of that test have not yet been returned, a government spokesperson told Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Deputy Prime Minister went to a hospital yesterday afternoon and after medical tests were carried out doctors decided she had to remain there to receive treatment for a respiratory infection,&#8221; said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35307 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bbe45a31f4d848448deb9b59ff27c307_18.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish law enforcement officials said that an investigation would be launched after soldiers reportedly elderly citizens dead from the coronavirus abandoned in nursing homes.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish law enforcement officials said Monday that an investigation would be launched after soldiers reportedly found elderly citizens dead from the coronavirus abandoned in nursing homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[251],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-hill"],"bylines":[{"id":251,"name":"Hill","slug":"hill","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":107}],"contributors":[{"id":251,"name":"Hill","slug":"hill","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":107}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41089"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41089"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}