THE Mayor of Barcelona and Save the Children España are among the increasing amount of high profile people and groups calling for an easing of the highly restrictive guidelines regarding children during the current confinement. "These children need to get out" mother of two mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau wrote on Facebook."Wait no more: Free our children!" she continued which has become the rallying call...
THE region of Catalonia has made the decision to change the way it counts coronavirus deaths, seeing an immediate leap in fatalities from 3,242 to 7,097. As with the rest of Spain, deaths measured as “official” were only people who had succumbed to Covid-19 in hospitals. However, Catalonia is now adding in people who died in residential homes, health centres and at home, using data gathered from...
IT has been confirmed that a senior member of staff at the Moncloa, the home of the Spanish government, has died after contracting Covid-19. Manuel Sanchez Lizana passed away on Tuesday and was described as “a model employee” when the news was announced as part of an executive press conference. It is not believed that his role, which was largely administrative, would have brought him into regular...
Sir Kenny Dalglish was admitted to hospital has after falling ill and has tested positive for Covid-19. A statement released by his family read: "Sir Kenny was admitted to hospital on Wednesday April 8 for treatment of an infection which required intravenous antibiotics. he was subsequently tested for COVID-19 despite having previously displayed no symptoms of the illness. Unexpectedly, the test result...
Spain has seen a drop in the reported cases of coronavirus deaths in the last day, official figures from the Health Ministry were 605 coronavirus deaths the lowest daily number of fatalities since March 24. April 2 saw the peak of fatalities in Spain, with 950 reported by the Spanish health authorities but total number of deaths exceeds 15,000. Dr María José Sierra from the Health Ministry’s...
ALTHOUGH nothing has officially been announced, the government is expected to ban foreign tourists from entering Spain this summer, a time when the vast majority of them head for the countries thousands of beach resorts. Sources close to the Executive understand an international travel ban, at least for non-essential trips such as holidays, is likely to remain in place until at least the autumn. If the...
Spanish Health authorities in Spain have reported a upsurge of new coronavirus cases and deaths in the last days but also recoveries. 757 people had died from the coronavirus in the last 24 hours bringing the total to 14,555, 32% of the 146,690 who tested positive for the virus had recovered, with 4,813 recoveries in the last 24 hours. Figures supplied by the Spanish health authority. The World Health...
There are 14 more deaths reported in the province of Alicante due to coronavirus. The number of deaths increases compared to the previous day in which there were six deaths - 607 people have been admitted to Alicante hospitals, 143 of them in ICUs bringing the total number of deaths to 283. In the Valencian Community there are 35 more deceased and the global number rises to 672. With the curve of...
THE Spanish Traffic Directorate (DGT) have said that police patrols and other measures will be significantly increased over Easter to stop people travelling to their holiday homes. Overall, road use is down by 95% and most are staying at home but there has still been a steady stream of people travelling from places such as Madrid to the Costas and elsewhere, defying the law and bringing the threat of...
WHILE the extension to the current lockdown is almost inevitable barring a U-turn from opposition parties, a senior government minster has given the first real hope that there will be a loosening of restrictions after the 26 April. Finance Minister Maria Jesus Montero said today (Wednesday) that citizens will be able to start resuming their normal life – subject to certain conditions. Ms Montero gave...