COVID-19

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) […]

A CLAMPDOWN on the professionals and politicians who jumped the queue and rode roughshod over health protocol to get a Covid19 jab has been promised in Valencia. An investigation by health authorities has shown around 150 by-passed the phased programme to vaccinate the population, beginning with care home residents, carers and frontline medical staff. However, after a number of high-profile town hall figures made headlines for grabbing a shot as […]

CALLS for to allow regional authorities to order an earlier curfew to help combat the spread of Covid-19 were ruled out by the Ministry of Health in Madrid. Health minister Salvador Illa refused to sanction a request from regional governments to allow the containment order to be advanced to 20.00 – the plea came a meeting of the council of the national health system. “Very drastic measures have already been […]

THE Minister of Health for Murcia, Manuel Villegas has apologised for any offence caused by receiving a Covid-19 vaccination but insists receiving the jab was in line with government protocol. The politician – who is also a doctor – and hundreds of senior officials and office workers in his department were given shots and fired up controversy across the region. Villegas maintains this was in line with national guidance because […]

SPAIN has launched a second round of vaccinations to residents of nursing homes as the country battles a third wave of Covid-19 infections. Health chiefs aim to avoid the tragic toll of the first wave of the pandemic which is believed to have killed some 20,000 in residential homes between March and May last year. And 96-year-old Araceli Hidalgo Sanchez, the first person in Spain to receive the first dose […]

Navarra has decreed the closure of the interior of the hospitality sector as a measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus. This has happened a few hours after Valencia decreed the total closure of the hospitality sector. Here you can see the new restrictions and measures in all the autonomous communities. Some autonomous communities have begun to take drastic measures and new restrictions to curb the advance of coronavirus, whose data are […]

The Government of Valencia have said today (Tuesday) the total closure of the hospitality sector to stop the third wave of coronavirus in the community. This tightens the restrictions imposed to date throughout the Valencian region with the total closure of bars, cafes and restaurants until the epidemiological situation improves. More information on other restrictions coming soon.