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First woman to receive the Covid vaccine in Spain turns 100: Pedro Sanchez brands centenarian ‘an example to the...

ARACELI Hidalgo, the first person to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in Spain, has turned 100 years old. The great-grandmother is celebrating her milestone birthday with...

Spain’s Andalucia to roll out variant booster and flu jab as of today

ANDALUCIA will kickstarts the autumn booster rollout as of today, with a focus on over 80-year-olds and care home residents. Two weeks later, on October...

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,...
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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...

Queue-jumping Costa Blanca mayor quits, 14 months after getting unauthorised Covid jab in Spain

ONE of three Alicante Province mayors who queue-jumped in January 2021 to get an unauthorised Covid-19 vaccine shot has been forced to resign. Ximo Coll...

Gibraltar considers introducing lateral flow home testing scheme to control COVID-19 outbreaks

THE Rock is considering turning to lateral flow home testing for COVID as the GHA works to increase testing capacity. But the measure will not...

COVID-19: Unvaccinated patients up to 24 times more likely to enter intensive care in Spain

COVID-19 figures from Spain’s health ministry show unvaccinated patients are up 24 times more likely to enter intensive care wards (UCI), according to data...

Costa Blanca queue-jumping COVID-19 vaccine mayor set for bribery trial in Spain

A Villajoyosa judge says there's enough evidence to try La Nucia mayor, Bernabe Cano, for COVID-19 vaccine queue-jumping. The Partido Popular mayor got an injection...

Third dose of COVID vaccine coming up for thousands of residents in Spain’s Valencia region

AN estimated 32,000 residents in the Valencia region are in line to receive a third dose of the COVID vaccine. The debate about whether or...

Spain’s Andalucia plans to vaccinate children aged 0-11 against COVID-19 by end of October

THE Junta is working on a vaccination plan for children aged 0-11 years, expected to begin at the end of October. The campaign would be...

‘Were it not for the vaccination, the fifth wave would have been a massacre’ says scientist in Spain

A HEALTH expert in Spain said ‘were it not for the vaccination, the fifth wave would have been a massacre’.  Ignacio López Goñi, a professor...

Where in Spain can children over 12 receive their COVID-19 vaccine?

APPOINTMENTS are being scheduled for the over-12s in a bid to start vaccinations before the start of the school year. Over 12s, who make up...

A third vaccination ‘should be mandatory’ for care home workers in Spain

CARE HOME health workers are asking to be given a third shot of its coronavirus vaccine. The president of CEAPS, a group representing care home...

Unvaccinated man becomes first person to die from Covid-19 in Gibraltar in months

A UNVACCINATED man aged between 60-65 has died from Covid-19 taking the death count to 95. Officials say the resident died from Covid-19 pneumonitis with...

Spain’s Andalucia opens up COVID-19 vaccine campaign to 18-year-olds

ANDALUCIA’S vaccination programme has opened up to 18-year-olds. As of today, Tuesday July 27, all 18 and 19-year-olds—those born in 2002 and 2003—resident in Andalucia,...

Spain health chief calls for full vaccination for youth as hospitalisation of under 30s soars

A TOP health expert in Spain has urged young people to get their double-dose of vaccines as data shows that people in their teens,...

COVID SPAIN: Catalan vaccination booking site leaks people’s personal data

HEALTH bosses in Catalunya are scrambling to revise the process for booking COVID vaccinations in the region after discovering medical details of patients had leaked...

COVID-19 vaccinations: Nearly 22 million people in Spain have had both coronavirus jabs

NEARLY 22million people in Spain are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the government. A total of 21,789,996 people have had both doses of...

Spain’s COVID-19 vaccination drive: How to register for a jab if you’re over 30 and live in Madrid

People aged over 30 in Spain are now being invited to register for the COVID-19 vaccine. People in this age bracket can now self-register to...

El Corte Ingles, Acciona and the Santander Group: new vaccination centers in Madrid

THREE new mass Covid vaccination hubs across Madrid are set to open this week. El Corte Inglés, Acciona and Grupo Santander will all start...

Over 40? These Malaga health districts are offering jabs without appointments this Saturday

ADULTS in Malaga will be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine without an appointment in two districts this weekend amid rising Delta variant cases. Those...

COVID-19 outbreak after Valencia students take end-of-year trip to Mallorca

HEALTH authorities in the Valencian Community have launched an investigation after reports of an outbreak of coronavirus among high school students in Elche. Around 32 pupils...

Explainer: What are the symptoms of the Delta variant?

THE Delta variant of coronavirus, first identified in India, is now spreading around the world, and is likely to be the dominant strain across...
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Andalucia draws up vaccine plan with COVID-19 jabs for children 12 and over

ANDALUCIA has drawn up plans to vaccinate secondary school children against COVID-19 before the end of summer.  The Junta’s health minister yesterday revealed that pupils between...

Explainer: Which countries can you travel to from Spain this summer?

Holidays haven't been on the cards for many of this year, thanks to travel restrictions and the threat of coronavirus. However, as COVID-19 vaccines...

Pedro Sánchez could relax rules on wearing masks outdoors in Spain as he says ‘roadmap is clear’

PEDRO Sánchez has indicated when masks will stop being mandatory outdoors in Spain.  Most regions are hoping the masks can be ditched as soon as...

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