COVID-19

A lift invented in Denia claims to 'eliminate' traces of COVID-19 by using ultraviolet rays. Denia is famous across Spain for its red prawns and Michelin-star chef Quico Dacosta – and it might just add lifts to that list. A Denia-based inventor, José Roig, has just patented an elevator that claims to 'eliminate' COVID-19 by using ultraviolet light. Once users have exited the lift, ultraviolet lights clean the interior of […]

Economy Minister Nadia Calvino says she hopes that the European Union will soon resolve the issue of its budget and recovery package that have been blocked by Hungary and Poland. Calvino said it is urgent that the budget agreement and the various documents relating to it are approved – the financial package includes €750bn for the coronavirus recovery fund. Spain is entitled to receive up to €140 billion from the […]

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 […]