Year: 2020

All Policia Local in the inland Alicante municipality of Cocentaina have been put into self-isolation after an agent tested positive to COVID-19 last Friday. The agent caught the virus in a private setting, but had been within a 2m distance of colleagues without a mask. All agents have were put into self-isolation until today. Municipal sources said public safety would not be affected, as Cocentaina's Guardia Civil force can share […]

The coronavirus crisis has pulverised Spain’s economy, triggering its worst recession since the civil war, with collapsed tourism numbers boding ill for hopes of a swift rebound. New figures from the National Statistics Institute showed it shrank 18.5% in the second quarter, a drop so harsh it wiped out all the recovery achieved since the 2008 global financial crisis.

The number of new cases of COVID-19 increased sharply in Spain, averaging over 2,000 per day last week. Spanish Health Ministry reported infections have been going up for weeks, numbering 1,525 on Friday, whereas they had been under 1,000 seven days previously. In the seven days, the number of diagnosed cases totalled 14,198. Differences in figures stem from the fact that regions sometimes report cases to the Health Ministry many […]

Nine bars have been fined over the weekend across Spain's Valencian Community following the first wave of inspections by a special police unit introduced last week. The group (Espectáculos de la Policía de la Generalitat) was set up last Thursday by regional president Ximo Puig following COVID-19 outbreaks at nightclubs and bars across the region. The first results came in today, with the police inspecting 190 establishments and fining nine […]

Covid-19 as killed at least 44,868 people in Spain since February 13, when the first death from the disease was recorded. That is much higher than the official death toll of 28,432 reported by the Spanish Health Ministry based on cases that were tested and came back positive. The figure includes all the people who died either from confirmed or suspected Covid-19, using records from the 17 autonomous regions of […]

The latest official figures released by the Spanish Health Ministry yesterday for the number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 is now 285,430. This is an overall increase of 2,789 against the figures released on Wednesday, yet with the ministry stating that 1,229 of these infections have occurred in the previous 24 hours, the highest daily increase since 1 May. The Catalan government has begun to ease restrictions […]

Spain's Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto has said the UK government COULD lift quarantine for travellers returning from Spain in 10 days' time giving new hope for holidays. She said the British Government has given a period of ten days for the review of the quarantine imposed on travellers from Spain. She said that Spain has already presented safe air corridors with the aim of "lifting it earlier" since the epidemiological […]

Jet2 has been contacting some customers on Spain's Balearic and Canary Islands to ask them to end their package holidays early. Hundreds of customers have had flights back to the UK cancelled and been asked to return sooner than planned. Jet2 said it cannot afford to keep sending empty planes to pick up passengers on many different dates. The company said the UK government quarantine rules had created confusion and […]

The latest official figures released by the Spanish Health Ministry yesterday for the number of people who have tested positive for Coronavirus (Covid-19) is now 282,641. This is an overall increase of 2,031 against the figure released on Tuesday – yet with the ministry stating that 1,153 of these infections occurred in the previous 24 hours.