COVID-19

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 […]

The latest figures from the Spanish Health Ministry for the number of people who have tested positive for Coronavirus (Covid-19) is now 305,767. This is an overall increase of 2,953 against the figure released on Tuesday, yet with the ministry stating that 1,772 infections have occurred in the previous 24 hours. The figures exclude data from Castilla La Mancha and the Basque Country.

In a bid to attract much-needed tourism, the regional government of the Canary Islands has announced that it will cover all coronavirus-related costs of visitors to the archipelago who contract the disease, regardless of whether they are Spaniards or citizens of other countries. Under the terms of the insurance deal struck by regional authorities with AXA España for €450,000, any tourist who tests positive for Covid-19 during their stay in […]

Swiss health authorities have said they will impose a 10-day quarantine on travelers from Spain, except those arrving from the Canary and Balearic islands. The measure will take effect this Saturday, and health authorities warned that self-isolation will be mandatory even with a negative Covid-19 test. The Valencia region, Catalonia and Andalusia stand to lose the most from the decision. Switzerland ranks 11th on the list of source countries for […]

A quick guide to using the Valencian government's (Generalitat) webpage showing coronavirus statistics right down to the municipal level. *Note: the statistics are based on data from PCR tests. Antibody tests are not included in these statistics. https://youtu.be/tUjo673pMuk

The latest official figures released by the Spanish Health Ministry yesterday for the number of people who have tested positive for Coronavirus (Covid-19) is now 302,814. This is an overall increase of 5,760 against the figure released the day before, although the figures did on Monday not include data from Madrid, Catalonia or Navarra for ‘technical problems’. The ministry says that 1,178 infections occurred in the previous 24 hours.

Spain aims to roll out a COVID-19 contact-tracing app in September after a pilot showed it could detect almost twice as many potential infections as human trackers. In the absence of a vaccine or cure, states are deploying Bluetooth wireless technology to log contacts and alert people when someone they have been near tests positive. Spain's app was developed by Google and Apple and holds data on individual devices to […]

Spain reported 968 new coronavirus infections yesterday, showing a slower pace of contagion than last week when the country reported more than 1,000 new cases for three days in a row. Cumulative cases, which also include results from antibody tests on people who may have recovered, increased to 297,054 from 288,522, the health ministry said. The number of active clusters grew to 560 from 483 on Thursday, when they were […]