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The autonomous community of Madrid has today announced it will make sanitary masks obligatory in all public places as part of measures to reduce COVID-19 transmissions. Group gatherings will be limited to 10 in restaurants and bars, while recommeding private gatherings do not exceed this number. The region also plans to produce a special card that registers a person's immunity while doubling the personnel who track and contain contagions. It […]

Medplaya Hotel Rio Park in Benidorm has announced it will shut its doors on 30th July directly due to 'changes' on travel advice to Spain from the UK's Foreign Office. The hotel, part of the Medplaya group, has a pop-up message on its website saying they 'regret' the decisions made last Saturday to impose a 14-day quarantine on travellers returning from Spain. The message reads: "We regret that, as a […]

The UK's Foreign Office (FCO) has updated travel advice for Spain to include warnings against visiting the Balearics and Canary Islands. The update yesterday, July 27, comes after initial talks to exempt the Spanish islands from the 14-day quarantine imposed on travellers returning to the UK. News of the talks led to regions of Andalucia and the Valencian Community also petitioning exemption from the quarantine due to their low COVID-19 […]

Authorities have fined holidaymakers in Javea for organising a party with over 100 guests at their rented villa last Sunday morning. Policia Local and Guardia Civil arrived at the house on Camí Vell de la Granadella following a noise complaint at 3.30am. Agents confirmed the party broke restrictions on private gatherings, accoring to the autonomous decree 11/2020 from 24 July brought in to tackle COVID-19 outbreaks in the Valencian Community. […]

The president of the Valencian Community, Ximo Puig, has asked British authorities to exempt his region from the 14-day quarantine on returning travellers. Puig asked for special measures for particularly the Costa Blanca, in the Valencian province of Alicante, after the UK reversed quarantine measures last Saturday. He stressed that Alicante has fewer incidents of coronavirus than the UK, saying 'the decision does not seem justified given current statistics'. Puig […]