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Madrid observatory detects spike in Covid-19 infections in wake of Easter holidays
THE NUMBER of Covid-19 cases in Spain has spiked after Easter week, bringing the 14-day incidence to 2,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants compared to...
Spain’s tourism sector hopeful of record-breaking Easter
SPAIN’S Easter break, which officially got underway at 3pm on Friday, is set to be a record-breaking one for the tourism sector, as the...
Spain’s tourism sector looking forward to bumper Easter break
SPAIN’S tourism sector is expecting to do big business this Easter, with forecasts suggesting that visitor numbers and spending will break records of recent...
Covid-19 hospitalisations rise 10% over last week in Spain
THE NUMBER of people in Spain hospitalised with Covid-19 has risen by 9.7% in just a week, while the number of such patients in...
Sales of flu remedies shoot up as Spain hit by major second wave of virus
IF YOU’VE been feeling under the weather these last days, you are not the only one. Spain is currently suffering one of its longest...
How the coronavirus pandemic took some of the chaos out of Madrid’s tapas bars
IT’S A FAMILIAR experience for lovers of Madrid’s tapas bars. There’s barely room to move, let alone find a space to set down your...
New study: Increased diabetes risk for people previously hit with Covid-19
People who have previously been infected with Covid-19 could stand at increased risk for diabetes, according to a new study.
Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre...
Spain’s declining birth rate hits a new historic low in 2022
THE DECLINING trend for Spain’s birth rate has been confirmed once more by the latest figures from the National Statistics Institute (INE). According to...
Spain’s Cabinet to do away with coronavirus masks on public transport on February 7
THE SPANISH government announced today that face masks will no longer be obligatory on public transport some time from February 7 onward. The Cabinet...
Experts advising Spain’s Health Ministry are finally ready to scrap face masks on public transport
THE GROUP of experts advising the Spanish Health Ministry has agreed that the time has finally come for face coverings to no longer be...
With death of French nun, the world’s oldest living person now resides in Spain
THE WORLD’S oldest person is now thought to be Spaniard Maria Branyas Morera, who is aged 115 and lives in Catalonia. She takes the...
Spain sees record surge in tax revenues, partly due to Covid-19 pandemic
THE COVID-19 pandemic had a lot of different effects on the way Spaniards live, from an increase in home working to a change in...
Kraken arrives in Spain: What we know about the most contagious strain of Covid yet
Kraken, the latest and most virulent strain of Covid, has been detected in Spain after becoming the latest import from the USA.
Known technically as...
Huge figure of travellers who used Spain Travel Health (SpTH) app during Covid-19 revealed
More than 50 million people who travelled to Spain during the Covid-19 pandemic used the government’s health app to help ensure the disease was...
Deaths in Spain fell by 8.7% in 2021 with respiratory diseases and tumors dominating
DEATHS in Spain fell by 8.7% in 2021 according to figures compiled by the National Institute of Statistics(INE).
450,744 died last year- a drop of...
Spanish travel sector slams government for maintaining mask requirement on flights
REPRESENTATIVES from Spain’s travel industry have railed against the government for keeping in place the obligatory use of masks on public transport, including on...
Mask appeal to reduce hospital admissions in Spain’s Costa Blanca and Valencia areas
VALENCIAN Health Minister, Miguel Minguez, wants people to wear masks in certain situations to reduce hospital admissions at a traditionally busy time of the...
Spain’s bars and restaurants expecting bumper post-Covid Christmas
AROUND this time last year, the emergence of the omicron variant of the coronavirus dashed the hopes of Spain’s bars and restaurants of any...
Virus warning as 15 people die from Covid-19 in one week in Spain’s Malaga
Fifteen people from the province of Malaga have died from Covid-19 in one week, according to health authorities.
The Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday...
Spain’s Malaga registers highest number of Covid-19 deaths in three months
MALAGA has recorded the highest number of COVID-10 deaths in three months.
According to data provided by the Andalucian Institute of Cartography and Statistics (IECA),...
EU citizens free to travel to Spain without restrictions but Brits still need to present COVID-19 certificate
EU and Schengen Area passengers will now not need to present proof of a negative COVID-19 test or be vaccinated to enter Spain.
But Brits,...
Spain’s Andalucia sees arrival of 900,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines adapted to variants
THE vaccination drive using this new delivery of vaccines will begin today, September 26, throughout Spain—with a total of 933,120 doses delivered to Andalucia...
Could the days of wearing masks on Spain’s public transport be coming to an end?
While the use of facemasks as a means of preventing the spread of Covid-19 has long been abandoned in the United Kingdom, in Spain...
Spain’s health minister announces arrival of 10m Covid-19 vaccines adapted to variants
SPAIN'S health minister Carolina Darias today announced that 10 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines would be arriving in Spain over September, adding that these...
Sad milestone as Covid-19 deaths hit 10,000 mark in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain
30 MONTHS on from the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the unwanted landmark of 10,000 coronavirus deaths has been reached in the Valencian Community.
Figures...
Hospital ICU Covid-19 cases in Spain hit lowest point since early days of pandemic
INTENSIVE care hospital admissions for Covid-19 have fallen to their lowest number since the Ministry of Health started publishing figures.
241 ICU cases were reported...
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