Photos show how coronavirus precautions left everything from schools to stadiums deserted across Spain - as more than 1,600 cases have already been reported

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• Spain is seeing a surge of new coronavirus cases. The country's total number of confirmed cases has tripled since Sunday, Reuters reported.
• The country is trying to avoid an outbreak on the scale of Italy's current coronavirus outbreak.
• In impacted regions, schools have been closed for two weeks, soccer games will be played without an audience, and some towns have been quarantined.
• In Madrid, the Rioja region, and the northern Basque Country, gatherings of more than 1,000 were banned.
• So far in Spain more than 1,600 have been infected and at least 36 people have died from the new coronavirus.
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