Year: 2020

Galicia will remain closed this Christmas and no one will be able to enter without a justified reason, although family visits are allowed. The community calls for family reunions to be one family unit only. The Christmas plan in Galicia recommends that meetings at Christmas celebrations consist only of "one family unit" on all holidays. This is what the Health Councillor, Julio García Comesaña, has detailed this Wednesday, after the […]

Despite progress in several European countries to slow the expansion of coronavirus, there is a "high risk of a new resurgence in the first weeks of 2021". The European region of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that Europe is at "high risk" of suffering a new wave of coronavirus infections in the first weeks and months of 2021, and has therefore advised the population, in view of the […]

The President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, warned now that we're close to the Christmas holidays that he will harden the Christmas plan if necessary in the face of the "worrying increase of contagion" of coronavirus and has asked "not to let down our guard". "We are facing a last effort. It is up to us alone not to open the door to the third wave", he said this Wednesday in […]

Europe is gradually returning to the more restrictive measures against COVID-19 before Christmas with the aim of trying to avoid a third wave at the beginning of the year and waiting for vaccines, which will mark the beginning of the end of the pandemic, but they will not end in the short term with masks or social distancing. Germany, Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and several Eastern European countries […]

The co-director of the Institute of Health and Strategy, Rafael Bengoa, points out that if Spain does not follow the example of other European countries such as Germany or France a third wave of contagion of coronavirus will arrive. He believes that the arrival of the vaccine has caused the population to relax and does not believe that the health system and its professionals can withstand a new wave. Rafael Bengoa […]

The Spanish Health Ministry recorded 21,309 new infections on Monday and added 389 Covid-19-related deaths to the official toll. The spread of coronavirus in Spain has been on a downward trend for five weeks, but a growing number of indicators suggest that this has now come to an end. Epidemiologists are cautious and do not like to establish trends until the figures are consolidated, the rise reported by the Spanish Health […]

The Minister of Health has assured that there will be coronavirus vaccines for everyone and has dated the start of the vaccination campaign between the 4th and 5th January. The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, has clarified that all the autonomous communities can be calm about the vaccination process against coronavirus in Spain, since "there will be vaccines for everyone and there will be some left over". During his intervention […]