Dispatches from a Pandemic: As the depths of Spain’s pandemic period appear to pass, fear emerges that the ensuing economic downturn will be nearly as traumatic

MADRID — Over the weekend, more than 2,100 people died in Spain as a result of the coronavirus, yet here we are, allowing ourselves to feel hopeful.

The neighbors looked weary Monday evening but clapped and cheered enthusiastically from their Madrid balconies. The weekend’s tally — tabulating the lives lost between midmorning Friday and midmorning Monday — was lower than the previous weekend’s…

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