Two million masks stolen in Santiago de Compostela amid coronavirus crisis

Police arrested a business man on Monday for his supposed implication in the robbery of two million masks amid coronavirus emergency, Galician regional government said in a statement. All the stolen material, which included medical supplies and masks, were estimated to be worth five million euros. Some of it was sold to the neighboring country Portugal, the statement said. The regional government said police opened an investigation and arrested a local businessman who had been seen around the fabric and who had recently supposedly had a meeting with Portuguese citizens.

Spain has the second-highest death toll in the world after Italy. On Monday, it reported 637 fatalities in the previous 24 hours. Monday's data showed Spain's total cases up to 135,032, the highest in Europe and second in the world after the United States.