Photos: Spain grapples with COVID-19 pandemic

Spain's health ministry said 757 people died over the past 24 hours, up from 743 people the previous day, marking the second daily rise in a row and bringing the total death toll to 14,555 - the world's second-highest after Italy. | Above: Medical staff wearing protective gear arrive with a patient to an emergency room at Severo Ochoa Hospital, in Leganes.

Spain's health ministry said 757 people died over the past 24 hours, up from 743 people the previous day, marking the second daily rise in a row and bringing the total death toll to 14,555 - the world's second-highest after Italy. | Above: Medical staff wearing protective gear arrive with a patient to an emergency room at Severo Ochoa Hospital, in Leganes.

The Spanish government on March 14 imposed one of the toughest lockdowns in Europe to curb the spread of the virus, with people allowed out of their homes only to work, buy food and seek medical care. | Above: A medical worker pushes a stretcher with a patient next to the ambulances in the emergency unit at Severo Ochoa hospital, in Leganes, near Madrid.

The pandemic has stretched the country's public healthcare system close to breaking point, with a shortage of intensive care beds and equipments, but in recent days hospitals have said the situation has improved. | Above: Medical wokers hug eachother outside the emergency rooms at Severo Ochoa Hospital in Leganes.

General view of a corridor with patients and medical personnel at an emergency unit of a Spanish hospital, in Getafe, outside Madrid

Farmers in tractors disinfect a street, in downtown Ronda, southern Spain

Employees work on the production line of a new medical device called OxyGEN, a respirator to be sent to hospitals, at the SEAT car factory of Martorell, near Barcelona

Medical staff from La Princesa hospital react as neighbours applaud from their balconies in support for healthcare workers, in Madrid

Funeral workers wearing protective suits carry a coffin out of the morgue at Severo Ochoa Hospital, in Leganes, Spain

An empty subway is seen, in Barcelona

Ambulance workers help an elder woman get into the ambulance, in Leganes, near Madrid

An employee of a company selling coffins, Ataudes Chao, works at the caskets warehouse in Valdemoro, near Madrid

Relatives of Mercedes Merino, who died of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), say a prayer next to the vehicle carrying her coffin before her burial, at a cemetery in Madrid

A healthcare worker wearing a protective face mask pushes a patient in a wheelchair at the emergency unit at 12 de Octubre Hospital, in Madrid

Careworkers from the Juan Calzada nursing home stand behind a banner reading "We are staying at home with our other family" in the Basque town of Guernica, Spain

A man disinfects his house in Grinon, Spain

Healthcare workers wearing protective face masks bring oxygen bottles to the emergency unit at 12 de Octubre Hospital, in Madrid

A worker walks past coffins, most of them containing the bodies of COVID-19 victims, in the parking of a funeral parlour, in Barcelona

A nurse tests a respirator called OxyGEN, which is to be sent to hospitals, at the SEAT car factory of Martorell, near Barcelona

Ambulance workers push a wheelchair with a patient at a nursing home in Leganes Madrid, near Madrid, Spain

Medical staff from Gregorio Maranon hospital react as neighbours applaud from their homes in support for healthcare workers, in Madrid, Spain

A worker washes the street outside of a medical emergency facility in Barcelona

A member of medical personnel works at a temporary hospital inside IFEMA conference centre, in Madrid, Spain

Mortuary workers push a coffin of a person who died at a nursing home in Leganes Madrid, near Madrid, Spain

Healthcare workers push a patient on a stretcher at the emergency unit at 12 de Octubre Hospital, in Madrid

People practice social distancing as they wait to enter a supermarket in Grinon, Spain