10 Mar, 2020 @ 18:36
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COVID-19: ALL flights between Spain and Italy suspended over coronavirus fears

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ALL direct flights between Spain and Italy are to be suspended over coronavirus fears, the government has announced. 

The flights will be stopped from midnight tonight until at least March 25 to limit the spread of contagion, reports El Mundo.

It comes as Italy has now surpassed 10,000 cases and continues to be the worst-hit country in Europe.

Italy is the third biggest market in terms of flights to Spain, with more than 106,000 last year, accounting for 9% of Spanish international air traffic.

The extraordinary measure applies to all flights between the two countries, apart from diplomatic, humanitarian or emergency operations.

Spain made the call on the basis that the majority of its cases initially came from Italy and that its neighbour has placed itself on lockdown, restricting travel within the country.

Companies like Norweigan have had to cut some 3,000 flights, 15% of its operations.

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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