Badalona, Barcelona province - 1 April 2020

1. Library turned Intensive Care Unit for COVID-19 patients in Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol

2. Health workers removing x-ray plate from back of patient with COVID-19

3. Patient on her stomach

4. Various of health workers treating patient

5. Health workers looking in ICU from behind a glass

6. Various of health workers communicating using walkie talkies, UPSOUND (Catalan) "Hello, Javi, can you look (for something) on the tables"

7. Two patients laying on their stomachs

8. Various of health worker treating patient

9. Health workers taking chest x-ray of patient in ICU

10. Patient's feet and empty beds being prepared for incoming ICU patients

11. Health workers in corridor of the original ICU floor

12. Various of health workers treating and speaking with patients, holding and caressing patients' hands and feet

13. Various of health workers putting on protective gear to enter ICU

14. Various of patients inside ICU

15. Various of health workers preparing medication

16. Various of patients

17. Health workers inside a brand new area of the hospital meant to be for patients recovering from heart surgery but used instead for COVID-19 patients

18. Patients hooked up on ventilator

19. Health worker looking at patient through window

As Spain's virus infections broke the 100,000 mark, a hospital in the northeastern region of Catalonia has been forced to turn its library into an Intensive Care Unit to deal with the influx of COVID-19 patients in critical condition.

Health workers at the Germans Trias i Pujol hospital outside Barcelona are struggling to get their hands on the appropriate protective gear and improvising with plastic aprons instead.

A brand-new area of this hospital originally built for heart surgery patients to recover in was also turned into a COVID-19 ICU before it was even inaugurated.

Spanish health authorities said Wednesday the country registered a new record of 864 deaths in one day and that the total number of deaths reached 9,053 since the beginning of the outbreak.

Total infections hit 102,136 cases.

But the 24-hour increase of 7,719 was 1,500 fewer than the increase from the previous day, offering hope that the contagion rate is stabilizing.

For most people the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.