COVID-19

Having lifted the quarantine requirement upon arrival in Spain for travellers from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Namibia and South Africa. The only health obligation to be fulfilled by any traveller coming from another country shall be to present the vaccination certificate, as received in full, of one of the coronavirus vaccines, or to submit a negative PCR or antigen test. The ambassador of Colombia in Spain, Luis Guillermo Plata, has […]

Placing hospitalized patients with severe coronavirus -not intubated- in a prone position, i.e., face down, improves their prognosis and reduces the need for intubation and therefore, of mortality, according to the results of an international clinical trial conducted in 42 hospitals in six countries, including the Spanish hospitals Vall d'Hebron and Hospital del Mar. This study has been published by the scientific journal 'The Lancet Respiratory Medicine', and it is […]

The Superior Court of Justice of Cataluña (TSJC) has maintained this Monday the decision to apply the curfew from 1:00 to 6:00 hours only in 19 Catalan municipalities and has rejected the request of the Generalitat of Cataluña to apply night confinement in 62 municipalities -including Barcelona, considering that it would be "unnecessary and disproportionate" by the reduction of COVID-19 infections. In the order, the Catalan Justice has again rejected […]

A 19-year-old girl without previous pathologies has died in the Hospital of Son Espases (Mallorca) due to COVID-19. This is the youngest person who has died from this virus in the Balearic Islands. A case that has surprised doctors by the aggressiveness of Sars-CoV-2. The girl was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as confirmed by the Health Service. The young woman had been admitted more than a week […]

We’re only three weeks away from school, and this will be the third course in the pandemic. Education and the autonomies will agree next Wednesday the protocol that will be followed in the classrooms, although some of the main measures that will be adopted are already known. There are more than 8 million students distributed in classrooms throughout Spain, both in primary and secondary education. In the classrooms all the […]

The flu campaign will be back in a few months. If the coronavirus vaccine becomes recurrent and we need it every year, the option of combining them is considered. In the UK, work is already under way to combine the flu vaccine and the Covid-19 vaccine in a single injection, in the event that the coronavirus vaccine must be annual. They’re both RNA couriers. Combining covid and flu vaccines could […]

The ninots return to the streets after being stored for more than a year and a half. At last, the characteristic characters of the Fallas of Valencia see the light of day for the traditional 'plantà'. The Valencian Community is looking forward to these Fallas after being suspended last year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This year 2021 has had to be postponed but will finally be held […]

The Fallas of Valencia 2021 will be held from 1st to 5th September and will have the "ofrenda" and the "cremà", in which the use of the mask will be mandatory in all acts, even in those that are outdoors, but there will be neither 'mascletás' in the town square nor fireworks castles in the old riverbed. This was agreed in the morning of yesterday by the councilor of Universal […]

The summer is slowing the rate of vaccination against COVID-19 and, with this, the milestone that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, marked in early May to have 33 million Spaniards, that is, 70% of the population, immunized against coronavirus with the full schedule in August has not been reached. "We are only 100 days away from achieving group immunity, 70% of the population of Spain immunized. Just 100 […]