A hotel chain is giving away a total of a thousand nights free stays in their rooms to people currently at the centre of the fight against the coronavirus, including healthcare professionals, pharmacy workers and others. The Spring Hoteles group are based in the Canary Islands and this is part of their #BestYearEver initiative which somewhat got overtaken by events as all the hotels are currently closed or...
GLORIA Gaynor, whose global disco smash “I will survive” has become something of an anthem once again during the current crisis, has posted memories on social media of her visit to a Valencian school in 2016. The US singer was in the city for a major summer festival and made the time to visit the Luis Vives state school, something which clearly left an impression. On her Twitter account she wrote...
A 57-year-old man from Mallen (Zaragoza) is facing stiff penalties after ignoring State of Alarm restrictions to go on a drinking session and ending up falling off his bicycle into a ditch. The authorities were alerted at the weekend and found the man moaning in pain, covered in mud and clearly intoxicated. He was also showing signs of hypothermia and thermal blankets were used to try and recover his body...
UNSURPRISINGLY one of the few boom businesses at the moment is the home fitness industry. Many people are downloading apps, free or otherwise. Those recommended by Tech buying site www.techradar.com include Aaptiv, Fitbit Coach, Asana Rebel, Adidas Training and Nike Training Club. Alternatively, an overview on the best simple home exercises by LA personal trainer Jessie Pavelka include the following....
A batch of 50,000 coronavirus testing kits bought by the government are set to go to waste as examination and testing of the equipment has shown they are not accurate enough. Under clinical guidelines they need to have a precision rate of 80% but most of them are closer to 30%, although around 9,000 are usable. These were purchased from a Chinese company through an intermediary with links to the country...
The Guardia Civil are out in huge numbers to control the movement of people across all regions of Spain, road blocks or on foot they are stopping as many people as they can. Also checking the passengers on public transport using all available manpower to enforce the rules and kerb the spread of the Corona-virus. The request made by the authorities is to prove your actions, the movement must be clear...
Pedro Sánchez asks the regional presidents to maintain unity and cooperation in the face of this coronavirus emergency situation. The president will request authorization from Congress to extend the state of alarm, which will coincide with Easter Sunday April 12. President Sánchez has communicated the decision of the Executive, which will need the authorization of the Congress of Deputies. The latest...
ALTHOUGH social media has been responsible for much of the false information circulating about the coronavirus and State of Emergency, it has also resulted in one of the few good news stories to come out of the crisis. A message started to circulate last Friday evening, the day the emergency measures were announced, asking people to come out onto their balconies at 10pm to applaud health staff in...
THE Spanish government has started paving the way for an extension of the nationwide State of Emergency (State of Alarm or lockdown) after an interview with a senior politician. Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos was on Radio Nacional de España this morning and said “It (the lockdown) is currently fifteen days long because it is legally required to be fifteen days, but it is evident that we will have...
ON the first day of the national State of Alarm (or state of emergency) some people have already been issued with sanctions for ignoring the new laws. Cyclists who have been out for leisure reasons and people walking without being able to reasonably justify the reason for being away from home are among those fined this Monday. People can be fined between 600 and 30,000 euros for not having identification...