COVID-19

For the second day running, the Health Ministry has reported no new coronavirus deaths in Spain.  It did, however, say there was a rise in infections, which came in at 137 in the previous 24 hours, compared to 71 the day before. Since the start of the crisis, there have been 27,127 Covid-19-related fatalities according to the official figures supplied by the government, which are based on cases where PCR […]

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has told the country’s regional premiers that he will request a sixth and final two-week extension to the state of alarm.  MPs will vote on the measure on Wednesday, and if it receives the support of lawmakers, the emergency conditions will be in place until June 21. Sánchez, who leads a coalition government with junior partner Unidas Podemos, also conveyed to the regions’ chiefs that they […]

Between March 1 and May 12, Spain recorded 43,295 more deaths than normal for the time of the year, this is up 52% from the expected deaths for the period. The figure includes 27,302 confirmed fatalities from Covid-19, but there are an additional 15,993 deaths that show up on civil registries but are not recorded as coronavirus victims, even though many of them probably are. On Wednesday, a system update […]

From today, children living in areas of Spain that have entered Phase 2 of the coronavirus deescalation plan will be able to go outside as many times as they like, without any restrictions on how far they can go or for how long.  That’s according to the Health Ministry order published on Tuesday in the Official State Gazette (BOE), which has formalised what many families have been doing since last […]

Spain could be assigned €77 billion in grants and €63 billion in loans from a €750 billion Covid 19 recovery program that was announced by the European Commission yesterday. EU sources said that Spain may be getting a total of €140 billion to help shore up its economy, which is expected to contract by anywhere between 9% and 13% as a result of the coronavirus lockdown, according to the latest […]

The Cabinet has approved an extraordinary outlay of €30.5 billion that will go towards paying pensions as well as unemployment benefits and subsidies. Finance Minister María Jesús Montero said the new guaranteed minimum income scheme, meant to help households at risk of poverty,  will be approved on Friday. Around 950,000 people had been laid off by late April due to the coronavirus pandemic, while 3.4 million had been placed on […]