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MADRID: The Spanish government insisted on Sunday (Jul 26) that despite a recent surge in coronavirus cases, the country was safe to visit.

Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya was moving to allay fears after some countries reimposed travel restrictions on Spain.

"Spain is a safe country," she told reporters. "Like other European countries, Spain has new outbreaks. It's not unusual."

Madrid is making "great efforts to control these outbreaks", she said after Spain reported nearly 1,000 new cases on both Thursday and Friday.

As well as killing more than 28,000 people, the coronavirus has dealt a major blow to Spain's tourism industry, which normally accounts for 12 per cent of GDP.

The number of COVID-19 cases has tripled in two weeks, and the authorities are monitoring more than 280 outbreaks.

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(CNN)Minneapolis police said officers found the body of a man in a building burned down during the protests over the death of George Floyd in May.

"We are treating this death as a homicide," police spokesman John Elder told CNN.

On Monday morning, officials from Minneapolis Police and Fire Departments along with agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives went to a building on East Lake Street based on an anonymous tip, Elder said.

Officials searched the burned rubble where Max It Pawn once stood and found a "deceased individual," Elder said.

The body "appears to have suffered thermal injuries" and was taken to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office, Elder said. The victim's identity will be released along with the nature and cause of death, he said.

A body was discovered in the burned-out wreckage of Max It Pawn in Minneapolis, police said.

On June 8, the US attorney's office in Minneapolis filed an arson charge against a 25-year-old man after an investigation into the fire of Max It Pawn where the body was found, Elder said.

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