Year: 2020

Two people have been arrested for assaulting two police officers who asked them to put on their masks in Alicante. Local Police issued 230 fines on Friday night alone for not wearing a mask, the average fine issued was €100 euros. Officers also closed down two shops and fined eight others, the fines for retail establishments are a lot more and can be as much as €3,000 euros!

The Spanish Ministry of Defence has sent the military into the town of Lepe in the province of Huelva, to help prevent the spread of coronavirus within the settlements of seasonal workers. According to the Health Ministry, the major risk areas are social gatherings, with friends and family, followed by work environments, in particular among communities of seasonal or temporary workers, which represent around 27% of outbreaks. Some 400 seasonal […]

There are coronavirus outbreaks in all of Spain’s 17 regions, not just in the provinces of Huesca and Lleida, where there is already talk of community transmission, but across the country. According to data from the Spanish Health Ministry, the virus is spreading in at least 10 regions. France has warned it's citizens against traveling to Spain.

After falling for months, the number of coronavirus cases has begun to rise on a national level in Spain. At the end of May, the number of new infections confirmed by PCR testing fell below 500 and in June, they were less than 250. Now however, Spain is again recording more than 1,000 cases a day. According to the Carlos III Health Institute, the R reproduction number, which measures how […]

Spain recorded its highest daily rise in new coronavirus cases since the beginning of the deescalation process yesterday, and Spain’s Interior Ministry has approved the use of facial recognition cameras in stadiums, concerts and other large sporting and cultural events.

Failing to bring the epidemic under control could spell disaster for Spain’s tourism sector, which accounts for some 12% of economic output and has begun a tentative reopening after hotel occupancy more than halved in the first six months of the year. Since France’s prime minister failed to rule out closing the border with Spain, the focus is now on what other European countries could do. Norway’s government is set […]