COVID-19

The latest official figures released by the Spanish Health Ministry yesterday for the number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 is now 285,430. This is an overall increase of 2,789 against the figures released on Wednesday, yet with the ministry stating that 1,229 of these infections have occurred in the previous 24 hours, the highest daily increase since 1 May. The Catalan government has begun to ease restrictions […]

Spain's Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto has said the UK government COULD lift quarantine for travellers returning from Spain in 10 days' time giving new hope for holidays. She said the British Government has given a period of ten days for the review of the quarantine imposed on travellers from Spain. She said that Spain has already presented safe air corridors with the aim of "lifting it earlier" since the epidemiological […]

Jet2 has been contacting some customers on Spain's Balearic and Canary Islands to ask them to end their package holidays early. Hundreds of customers have had flights back to the UK cancelled and been asked to return sooner than planned. Jet2 said it cannot afford to keep sending empty planes to pick up passengers on many different dates. The company said the UK government quarantine rules had created confusion and […]

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 282,641. This is an overall increase of 2,031 against the figure released on Tuesday – yet with the ministry stating that 1,153 of these infections occurred in the previous 24 hours.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has urged political parties to work together towards national reconstruction in the same spirit that recently yielded the landmark EU coronavirus recovery fund. Holding up as an example the EU agreement that will grant Spain €140 billion for the Covid-19 recovery effort the leader of the Socialist Party (PSOE) said if the different governments had managed to reach an agreement in Europe, Spain should be able […]

Spain's Ministry of Health has announced the highest number of daily new COVID-19 infections since May 1 as 1,153 cases were announced in today's statistics. It is the highest number since May 1, when 1,175 daily new cases were recorded – and when were still a week away from easing lockdown. The milestone 1,000 has also been named by health officials as a 'limit' in Spain's post-lockdown new normality before […]

Spain’s airport operator Aena says it does not expect European air traffic to recover to pre-Covid levels of activity until 2024, as the state-owned company released its first half year results. Aena also estimated that passenger traffic for 2020 would decrease between 57% and 67% overall, and reported a dive in traffic of 97.8% compared to the same six-month period last year.

One in every five bars and restaurants in the Valencian Community are predicted to shut this year – or 7,000 from an estimated 35,000 total. The Conhostur hospitality and tourism confederation estimated that 160,000 jobs depend on these sectors, and that up to 60,000 positions will be lost due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Manuel Espinar, president of the Valencian confederation, said only 80% of businesses in his network have […]

The premier of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has announced that face masks will be mandatory in all public spaces in the region, even when social distancing measures can be respected. The new rule, which has already been introduced in all of Spain’s 17 regions with the exception of the Canary Islands, comes into effect tomorrow. Under the Madrid plan, social gatherings will be limited to 10 people and night time […]