COVID-19

The school, located in the northern town of Zaldibar, reopened on Monday but has shut after the outbreak was detected.  Health officials have not said how many teachers are infected or how long the school will remain shut, but confirmed that all staff are now being tested. The school is believed to be the first in Spain to completely close due to an outbreak, though isolated cases have been reported […]

Thousands of visually impaired people have been left exposed to COVID-19 because of flaws in Spain's official tracking app, it has been claimed. RadarCOVID, which was launched at the end of June, is not accessible on an iPhone to people with sight problems. The latest numbers released by the Spanish Health Ministry for people who have tested positive for Covid-19 is now 534,513.  This is an overall increase of 8,964 […]

School teachers in the Valencian Community are to be taught to identify Covid 19 symptons amongst their students, but with courses scheduled to begin AFTER the start of the new school year next week. Every school and college in the region will have a designated Covid manager who'll go on a training course and then pass on what they've learned to their colleagues. Public health experts will show how to […]

Thursday's figures from the Spanish Health Ministry for the number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19) is now 488,513. This is an overall increase of 8,959 against the figure released on Wednesday, although the ministry says 3,607 of the infections occurred in the previous 24 hours. The figures exclude updated data from Murcia for ‘technical reasons’. There have now been 100,155 cases of Coronavirus detected in the past […]

The leader of the main opposition Popular Party (PP), Pablo Casado, continues to refuse to lend his support to new appointments in key institutions such as the Constitutional Court. Following talks with Socialist Party (PSOE) Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Casado said that the PP would not whilst the PSOE continued to govern in a coalition with junior partner Unidas Podemos, the leftist bloc headed by Pablo Iglesias and made up […]

The Spanish Health Ministry and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez have said that Madrid is a cause for concern, after figures showed that the region has accumulated nearly a third of all of the new coronavirus cases in the last week. With 14% of the population of Spain, Madrid accounts for 14,871 of a nationwide total of 49,399 – over 8,000 of which were reported yesterday from the previous 24 hours. […]