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Benidorm has ditched its beach reservation system after just six weeks as there aren't enough tourists in the resort. The local council says sunbathers just have to turn up at the main Levante beach in the future as the prior booking site has been de-activated. In future, to help with controls over possible coronavirus outbreaks through beach parties, it'll now close at 9pm...a move which has been introduced in other […]

The Valencia government has asked for 150 army track and trace experts to boost the region’s efforts to crack down on the spread of Covid-19. The military personnel will join the more than 1,000 healthcare officials who are already working on the operation to trace contacts of newly-diagnosed coronavirus patients in the Valencia region, where health authorities have imposed a new lockdown on residents in the town of Benigánim after […]

Spain's economy minister says Spanish GDP has been growing at a rate of more than 10% so far in the third quarter following a record drop in the preceding quarter due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking at an event this morning, Nadia Calvino said that the labour market had also begun to recover.

Police have arrested a man near Zaragoza, who believed the coronavirus pandemic to be a hoax, for inciting hatred and violence across several anonymous social-media profiles. The 38-year-old, who claimed that health professionals and the media were behind what he called the “COVID farce”, urged his followers to attack politicians and journalists. “All this would be solved with a shot to the back of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s head,” […]

The latest official figures released by the Spanish Health Ministry for the number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 were on Friday and are now at 439,286. This is an overall increase of 9,779 against the figure released on Thursday, although the ministry says that 3,829 of those infections occurred in the previous 24 hours. 1,693 people required hospital treatment in the past week, with 129 in intensive […]

Health Minister Salvador Illa says Spain has authorised its first ‘Phase Two’ clinical trial of a Covid-19 vaccine. Illa said that Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, owned by Johnson & Johnson, will hold the second phase of their vaccine in Spain, Belgium and Germany. This stage means that tests will be carried out on humans, 190 people will be administered doses in three Spanish hospitals, located in Madrid and Santander. First results […]

Economy minister Nadia Calviño says Spain’s economy has already begun to recover from the impact of the pandemic, though hard-hit industries such as tourism and restaurants will take longer to rebound. She said the country has to keep on controlling the coronavirus outbreaks to keep the economy moving forwards. Calviño went on to say the government is negotiating with businesses and unions over a possible extension to the country’s ERTE […]