The head of the Catalan regional government, Quim Torra, has called on Spain's King Felipe VI to abdicate after his father and former monarch, Juan Carlos I, left the country amid an ongoing corruption case, as reported by the Spanish news agency Europa Press on Tuesday

Spain's former king, Juan Carlos I, who decided to leave the country amid a corruption scandal, is currently staying in the Dominican Republic, the ABC Noticias newspaper reported on Tuesday

The death toll from the coronavirus infection in the world topped 636,000, over 15.6 million cases of infection were detected, and over 8.9 million of those patients were cured, according to the US-based Johns Hopkins University, which tracks and compiles data from federal and local authorities, media and other sources