Demographics, social behavior and lower testing capacity are just some of the reasons why Italy and Spain have the highest number of deaths from the coronavirus, health experts told CNBC.
A country's speed of response and demographic are two of the reasons heath experts said death toll differs.
As of Friday morning, there had been 8,215 deaths in Italy compared to 3,291 in China, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.A medical worker in protective gear tends to a patient on March 24, 2020 at the new COVID 3 level intensive care unit for coronavirus COVID-19 cases at the Casal Palocco hospital near Rome, during the country's lockdown aimed at stopping the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the same time, Spain's death toll has risen sharply in recent days and it is currently at 4,365 — also significantly above China's. The worrying figures have raised questions about what's behind these European countries' high fatality rate."There was a lot of spread before people realized ," Alexander Edwards, an expert in immunology from the University of Reading, told CNBC Thursday about the situation in Italy.
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