COVID-19

A survey from Spanish data analyst start-up 40db found 61.2% of respondents in favour of a second home lockdown. Are you? – Vote below. The majority of Spaniards (61.2%) would support a second home lockdown. This is despite Spain's GDP plummeting 18.5% between April and June this year – the biggest drop ever recorded. Spain witnessed the biggest drop in its GDP (PIB) since its Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) […]

Travellers arriving in Spain by air or sea will need a negative PCR certificate after 23rd November. Entering Spain without a negative PCR test for COVID-19 could cost €6,000, according to Spain's minister for external affairs, Arancha González Laya said the fines would be 'serious' and 'dissuasive', though without interest, in a televised interview with Antena 3 last Friday. Spain approved the measure following guidelines laid down the European Commission […]

Spanish police has fined 23 people after 'influencers' threw a house party in Marbella last weekend. Marbella's Policía Local have cracked down on a house party that laughed at strict COVID-19 restrictions last weekend. A total of 23 people were fined for crimes against public safety for not wearing masks nor respecting social distancing. Police shut the party down at 21.15 last Saturday night in the San Pedro de Alcántara […]

Calp's lack of COVID-19 'control' has been featured as the top story on the Valencian Community's biggest newspaper, Las Provincias. "It was like the mountain queues up the Himalayas," said hiker Fransisco as he climbed Calp's Penyol d'Ifach last weekend. Accompanied with a series of photographs, Fransisco told Las Provincias that few fellow hikers respected the '1.5m social distancing' and at least 25% did not wear masks. "We were crossing […]

The majority of long COVID patients were found to be women with a median age of 43. A survey in Spain of 2,120 people declared cured of COVID-19 show that while the virus can be beaten, its aftereffects take a toll. A massive 87% of cured patients were still suffering symptoms six months later, according to the study from the Sociedad Española de Médicos Generales y de Familia (SEMG). Researchers […]

The Community of Madrid has lifted restrictions on 10 of the 41 healthcare zones closed off due to spiking COVID-19 infections last month. From today, people can once again move freely in and out of these healthcare zones. It comes as the 14-day accumulated incidence dropped by as much as 50% – all of the 10 relaxed districts have an AI under 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Madrid's overall AI […]

Spain has succeeded in bring its 'R' number – a measure of COVID-19 infection rates – below one following weeks of restrictions across the country. Spain’s national coronavirus incidence rate remains high, but has been on a downward trend for a week, according to daily updates from the Spanish Ministry of Health. Friday's report (source) put the 14-day accumulated incidence of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants at 498, down from […]

Denia's intensive care unit (UCI) for critical COVID-19 patients is nearing 100% capacity – the Marina Salud hospital services the entire Marina Alta region. Denia hospital is looking to expand its UCI capacity in a second wing, after its existing unit is nearing saturation. Denia's UCI supervisor told local radio station La Veu d'Ondara the hospital is reaching its worst moment during the COVID-19 second wave. Vicent Salvà said the […]

The Valencian Community has recorded the lowest COVID-19 accumulated incidence on mainland Spain since 1st October. Accumulated incidence (AI) measures COVID-19 diagnoses per 100,000 inhabitants over 7- or 14-day periods. According to Ministerio de Sanidad figures, the Valencian Community has recorded the lowest AI over 14 days on mainland Spain for 42 days. The Valencian Community (Alicante, Valencia and Castellón) saw its AI over 14 days fall below Galicia on […]