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The Spanish government is trying to convince the UK to exclude the Balearic and Canary Islands from the quarantine decreed for travellers returning from Spain which came into force at the weekend. Valencian president Ximo Puig has also requested that the travel corridor include his autonomous region. Local Police in Alicante have issued fines to over 400 people this weekend for...

Two people have been arrested for assaulting two police officers who asked them to put on their masks in Alicante. Local Police issued 230 fines on Friday night alone for not wearing a mask, the average fine issued was €100 euros. Officers also closed down two shops and fined eight others, the fines for retail establishments are a lot more and can be as much as €3,000 euros!

The Spanish Ministry of Defence has sent the military into the town of Lepe in the province of Huelva, to help prevent the spread of coronavirus within the settlements of seasonal workers. According to the Health Ministry, the major risk areas are social gatherings, with friends and family, followed by work environments, in particular among communities of seasonal or temporary workers, which represent around 27% of outbreaks. Some 400 seasonal […]

There are coronavirus outbreaks in all of Spain’s 17 regions, not just in the provinces of Huesca and Lleida, where there is already talk of community transmission, but across the country. According to data from the Spanish Health Ministry, the virus is spreading in at least 10 regions. France has warned it's citizens against traveling to Spain.

After falling for months, the number of coronavirus cases has begun to rise on a national level in Spain. At the end of May, the number of new infections confirmed by PCR testing fell below 500 and in June, they were less than 250. Now however, Spain is again recording more than 1,000 cases a day. According to the Carlos III Health Institute, the R reproduction number, which measures how […]