Year: 2020

Like many of you, the Embassy and Consulates are currently working from home and therefore are unable to run their usual type of Facebook Live Q&A session. However, they are conscious that many of you will have questions about what the current crisis means for you – perhaps for your residency or access to healthcare – or maybe you are just confused about the restrictions during the state of emergency. […]

The country’s death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose by 410 yesterday, down from 565 on Saturday, the lowest daily increase in around a month, the total number of deaths reached 20,453. The daily increase was the lowest since March 22. It is far below the highest daily increase - 950 deaths reported on April 2 - in a sign of a slowdown of the spread of the virus after […]

The number of people with coronavirus who have died in Spain has passed 20,000. The health authorities reported 565 further coronavirus related fatalities a slight fall on the previous day's figure of 585. It brings the total to 20,043, while the number of infections has passed 190,000. Only the United States and Italy have had more COVID-19 deaths. In Spain, infections have risen to 191,726 compared with the previous tally […]

Economic activity in Spain has fallen in the first three months of 2020 compared to the same period last year. An examination carried out by Imperial College Business School, University of Cambridge and University of Edinburgh of 1.4 billion credit and debit card transactions during the first three months of 2020, shows that spending in post-lockdown was on average 49 percent lower than the same date the previous year. The […]

Officially, Spain’s death toll, which remains among the world’s highest, is closing in on 20,000. But there is evidence that it could be far higher, with many deaths, especially those in nursing homes, not properly classified as stemming from coronavirus. PM Pedro Sánchez and other officials reject accusations from opposition politicians accusing the fragile coalition government of intentionally underreporting Covid-19 fatalities, but the authorities have now begun a recount, trying […]

Opposition Popular Party (PP) leader Pablo Casado has told Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez that if he wants an agreement post the coronavirus crisis, although he doubts he does, then it would have to be reached in parliament. The challenge came after the (PSOE) Socialist Party politician made a “heartfelt” plea to opposition parties to come together to create a national plan to rebuild the Spanish economy. Casado offered no confirmation […]

The coronavirus pandemic has caused the Spanish economy to do a complete about-face. Despite the signs of a slowdown that were clear to see in the second half of 2019, Spain closed the year with solid growth of 2%, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was, until a few weeks ago, hopeful that the economy would follow a similar pattern in 2020, with an increase of 1.6%. The latest World […]

Spain, one of the countries worst hit by the global coronavirus epidemic, started to ease tough lockdown restrictions yesterday that have kept people confined to their homes for more than a month and put a brake on economic activity. The cumulative death toll from coronavirus rose to 17,489, up 517 from 16,972 on Sunday, confirmed cases totalled 169,496, up from 166,019 the previous day. However, this was the smallest proportional […]