COVID-19

The Canary Islands have become the last Spanish region to make face masks obligatory in public spaces, both indoors and outdoors, and have also followed Galicia in imposing a smoking ban in all outdoor public spaces where a safe distance can't be maintained.Regional president Angel Victor Torres announced the extraordinary measures - which come into force from today - after the Canaries registered a recent rise in Covid-19 infections.He said […]

News of a 20-year-old asymptomatic man infecting his 80-year-old grandma with COVID-19 after catching it at a Madrid party has sparked today’s stats and analysis video. As Spain recorded 1,690 new COVID-19 cases today, Wednesday 12th August, we are noticing asymptomatic cases making up nearly 50% of the total daily case load. We spoke with family physician Dr Henk Landa from the Hospital San Carlos in Denia. He explained how […]

Today Spain saw 1,418 new coronavirus cases by PCR in a 24-hour period between Monday and Tuesday. In this video we also install and take a look at the Spanish government’s new contact tracing app, Radar COVID. Following controversy over privacy the app creators, including Secretary of State for Digital and Artificial Intelligence Carme Artigas, designed a system that claims to protect anonymity. The system works with bluetooth technology and […]

Javea has recorded three new coronavirus cases over last weekend, according to statistics released by the Valencian region department of health, Sanitat. The new COVID-19 cases are the first recorded in Javea since the end of lockdown. Neighbouring Denia also recorded 13 new cases over the last weekend, bringing their total number of cases in the last 14 days to 22. Calp also recorded one case, bringing the number of […]

Coronavirus statistics update and analysis for Monday, 10th August. Monday saw 1,486 new COVID-19 infections by PCR in a 24-hour period, continuing more than a week of daily infections in the thousands. In today’s video we also tackle news reports that Spain will go back into lockdown on 18th September – a claim that appears fake both by source and quality of the written text. https://youtu.be/qbayOnB7B3g Subscribe to BayRadio

In Albacete, local police have cut off a road leading to the city’s trade fair center after several seasonal workers who were being housed there fled the premises on Wednesday morning. The center is being used to quarantine around 230 immigrants after a coronavirus outbreak was detected at a makeshift camp in the city outskirts 15 days ago. The Catalan regional government has shut down a business in Lleida province […]

Spain’s services sector grew modestly for the second month in a row in July after a coronavirus lockdown decimated economic activity in April and May, but firms still shed jobs amid an uncertain future. Markit’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) of services companies, which account for around half of Spain’s economic output, rose to 51.9 from 50.2 in June. The 50 line separates growth from contraction, and the survey hit a […]

The Education Ministry has created a committee to evaluate the impact of Covid-19 on non-university studies and adopt the necessary measures ahead of the new academic year. Andalusian education officials said that schools across the region will return pupils to class rooms and that the regional government will conduct 143,000 tests on teachers, as well as hand out three million face masks a month. The issue of whether and how […]

Spain’s tourism industry continues to feel the impact of the coronavirus crisis. According to the latest figures from the National Statistics Institute (INE), just 204,926 international visitors arrived in Spain in June, a drop of 97.7% from the same month in 2019.This makes it the worst semester on record for the Spanish tourism industry, with just 10.78 million visitors, a fall of 71.7% from the same period in 2019. Tourist […]