COVID-19

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. […]

Madrid has closed its public swimming pools and its more than 3,000 parks and gardens between the hours of 10pm and 8am in a bid to prevent a second wave of coronavirus in the Spanish capital. The municipal police force will once again use measures such as drones to inform the public of the closures, in a bid to avoid crowds forming and young people holding outdoor drinking sessions known […]

Due to Coronavirus and international travel restrictions, Spain saw 75% fewer international tourists in July, compared to the same month last year, and also took 79.5% less tourism revenue. The INE said 2.5 million international tourists visited Spain in July 2020, 75% fewer than in the same month last year, spending around 2.4 billion euros. During July, average spending per tourist stood at 994 euros, down by 17.8% on last […]

Spain has shed the most jobs during Covid 19, job losses in the first half of the year were nearly three times higher here than in any other European country. This does not take into account the furloughed workers still under the ERTE scheme, which allows employers to temporarily tell staff to stay at home or reduce their working hours. Once the state-funded job protection program ends, a clearer picture […]

The latest figures released by the Spanish Health Ministry today for the number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 is now 462,858. This is an overall increase of 23,572 against the figure released on Friday, although the ministry says that 2,489 of these infections occurred in the past 24 hours. Figures released today show that 1,656 people have required hospital treatment in the past 7 days, with 133 […]

Benidorm has ditched its beach reservation system after just six weeks as there aren't enough tourists in the resort. The local council says sunbathers just have to turn up at the main Levante beach in the future as the prior booking site has been de-activated. In future, to help with controls over possible coronavirus outbreaks through beach parties, it'll now close at 9pm...a move which has been introduced in other […]

The Valencia government has asked for 150 army track and trace experts to boost the region’s efforts to crack down on the spread of Covid-19. The military personnel will join the more than 1,000 healthcare officials who are already working on the operation to trace contacts of newly-diagnosed coronavirus patients in the Valencia region, where health authorities have imposed a new lockdown on residents in the town of Benigánim after […]

Spain's economy minister says Spanish GDP has been growing at a rate of more than 10% so far in the third quarter following a record drop in the preceding quarter due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking at an event this morning, Nadia Calvino said that the labour market had also begun to recover.