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PICASSENT jail has locked down and ceased all ‘non-essential’ activity to help prevent the spread of coronavirus after a new outbreak amongst the prisoners. The Valencia region prison – the largest penitentiary in Spain - is in a ‘verycomplicated situation’ according to union representatives of prison staff.According to the group, a new outbreak has affected 90 inmates and there are currently 157 positive cases with 425 prisoners in quarantine; some […]

THE highly infectious ‘British strain’ of Covid-19 is expected to continue to spread rapidly across Spain, according to a Ministry of Health report. It predicts further pressure on hospitals with a more lethal and serious form of the disease, a variation first identified in Kent, as more people are infected. The Centre for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies warned that based on available evidence the variant was more […]

HOPES of meeting friends by forming a ‘social bubble’ under the tougher new health measures introduced by Valencia on Monday have been burst. The new decree allows groups of two people to meet in public spaces, except for people living together in a single household. It also restricts meetings in homes and private spaces to family and peopleoccupying the same nucleus or coexistence group, ‘living together in the same household’. […]

REGIONAL Health minister Ana Barceló told the Valencia parliament that the Covid-19 crisis was currently ‘out of control’. She was reporting on the management of the pandemic by the government to representatives and stressed that ‘unity’ between the political parties was ‘a moral requirement’ in fighting coronavirus. The minister admitted transmission of the disease was ‘sustained and uncontrollable’ at present – she was speaking as new restrictions to combat the […]

NEW measures to combat the third wave of coronavirus in Valencia will see nearly half the population locked up in towns over weekends and holidays. People living in towns of more than 50,000 residents will be barred from leaving from 15.00 on Fridays through to 06.00 on Monday mornings – a move affecting some 2.3 million until at least February 15. The predicted Covid-19 clampdown came into force today (Monday) […]