Month: June 2020

The island of La Gomera in the Canaries is to be the test bed for a new national smartphone app that will track infections. Tests are to run from tomorrow until the 16th July which will simulate a pandemic on the island to evaluate it’s systems. The cabinet approved the contract with app developer Indra to design, develop and evaluate the pilot test for the app, which is hoped will […]

Murcia International Airport have confirmed they will resume normal operations at Corvera from 1 July, coinciding with the re-opening of borders and an increase in air traffic demand. The Ministry of Development and Infrastructure also announced that the regional executive has requested a reduction in airport charges by operator AENA to encourage airlines back to the regional airport after the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the restrictions of the state of alarm, […]

Passengers on a hundred or so flights landed in Spain from Schengen-area countries yesterday, with 225 routes restarting, a low number compared to a normal June. El Prat airport in Barcelona was operating at 5% of capacity, the majority of arrivals there were foreigners who work in Spain and left the country during lockdown. The lifting of the state of alarm, which means that we can move freely across the […]

A day after Spain entered the “new normality” following a prolonged coronavirus deescalation process, a small area in the northeast of the country has taken several steps back due to fresh outbreaks of the virus. The 67,700 residents of three areas in the region of Aragón are back in Phase 2 of the deescalation plan after having moved through a four-stage process out of one of the world’s strictest confinements. […]

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has urged people not to lower their guard as the country’s coronavirus state of emergency came to an end at the weekend and prepared to reopen its borders to European visitors. Speaking on Saturday, Sánchez thanked the nation for its patience, sacrifice and unity over the past 13 weeks, but said there was no room for complacency as the country emerges into “the new normality” of […]

Thousands of domestic tourists are expected to head for the Costas when the national state of emergency is lifted on Sunday. The special status officially ends at midnight tomorrow reinstating freedom of movement throughout Spain and triggering the so-called ‘new normality’. Spain will also lift border controls with EU Member States and the Schengen area on Sunday lifting the quarantine for visitors from these countries.