Spain’s air pollution falls 55% during coronavirus crisis
Air pollution across Spain fell by more than half in the last two weeks of March, with air contamination in Madrid and…
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TOP HEADLINES: Coronavirus crisis in Spain …
Summary of some of the top headlines in national news media this morning, with links to the original sources in Spanish ……
NGOs take on food delivery to most vulnerable in crisis
Municipal governments nationwide have registered a veritable avalanche of requests for emergency aid and distribution of food to the most vulnerable, many…
TOP HEADLINES: Coronavirus crisis in Spain …
Summary of some of the top headlines in national news media this morning, with links to the original sources in Spanish ……
EU leaders mulling 100bn unemployment, stimulus fund
The leadership of the European Union took a step Tuesday toward building consensus solutions to deal with the economic downturn caused by…
TOP HEADLINES: Coronavirus crisis in Spain …
Summary of some of the top headlines appearing in Spain’s daily newspapers & news sites this morning, with links to the original…
Spain retools to turn out desperately needed respirators
In the face of a critical shortage of respiratory ventilators in intensive care units (ICUs) across Spain, private and public entities are…
Hotels to shelter gender violence, sex trafficking victims
The government’s cabinet-level Consejo de Ministros will approve today a legislative decree to increase protection during the coronavirus crisis for women and…
COVID-19 stretching EU consensus to breaking point
► Germany, Holland and Austria insist on ‘every country for itself’ approach ► Spain, Italy balk at ESM mechanism linked to structural…
Gov’t tightens lockdown, closes all non-essential activity
? Health Ministry says intensive care units in 9 regions at or near breaking point ? Employers prohibited from sacking workers for…
Health Minister sees stabilization in contagion curve
Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa said on Thursday that despite the recent increases in confirmed cases and deaths from coronavirus over the…
Tech innovators across Spain producing 3D respirators
A critical shortage of medical respirators in Spain during the coronavirus crisis is leading healthcare professionals across the country to make heartbreaking…
Sánchez sharply criticized, but wins lockdown extension
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez won approval from Congress in the early morning hours of Thursday for a 15-day extension of the country’s…
Spain now has 2nd-most coronavirus deaths worldwide
Spain became the country with the second-most number of fatalities from coronavirus worldwide on Wednesday, with the number of deaths surpassing those…
Judge probes gov’t for allowing 8M Women’s Day march
? 1st V-P Carmen Calvo is hospitalized, tests positive for coronavirus ? A conservative judge in Madrid has opened an investigation into…
Germans, Dutch resist Spain’s ‘coronabonds’ relief plea
On the eve of a crucial meeting of prime ministers of the European Union (EU) slated for Thursday, EU finance ministers deadlocked…
Catalonia with more new COVID-19 cases than Madrid
Catalonia surpassed the regional community of Madrid on Tuesday in the number of new cases of coronavirus, with the Department of Health…
Song becomes Spain’s anthem in fight against COVID-19
A song that first became a hit in Spain when released more than 30 years ago has gone viral through a video…
Gov’t eyes rent moratorium, minimum income relief
Spain’s Vice-President for Economic Affairs Nadia Calviño confirmed on Monday that the government is considering a temporary moratorium on residential rent payments…
Regions shelter homeless during coronavirus lockdown
Regional and local governments across Spain are rushing to get homeless people off the streets and into shelters to minimize the spread…
Gov’t to extend Spain’s ‘state of alarm’ until 11th April
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez announced Sunday that his government will ask Congress to extend the country’s current “state of alarm” through Wednesday…
FOCUS: Why Spain’s hospitals are not better prepared
In a televised address Saturday evening on the state of Spain’s coronavirus crisis, President Pedro Sánchez made crystal clear that the primary…
Valencia to deploy 3 field hospitals in provincial capitals
The regional government of the Valencian Community has announced it has contracted a construction company specialized in deploying pre-fabricated buildings to build…
Iglesias to coordinate regional delivery of social services
Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa and 2nd Vice-President and Social Affairs Minister Pablo Iglesias announced in a joint press conference Thursday that…
Sánchez to Congress: Coronavirus ‘worst is yet to come’
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez told legislators in Congress on Wednesday that the worst of Spain’s COVID-19 epidemic is yet to come, while…
Elderly at highest-risk in Spain’s coronavirus epidemic
Following the deaths from coronavirus of 19 residents at a Madrid senior-care facility Tuesday, the concern is mounting for the elderly in…
Spain’s gypsy community target of coronavirus racism
An national federation of women’s groups from Spain’s Roma community has complained of a spate of racist and anti-gypsy messages being disseminated…
COVID-19: 200bn euros to protect workers, businesses
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez announced Tuesday afternoon that the government will mobilize 200 billion euros in an unprecedented aid package financed with…
COVID-19: Gov’t amends initial ‘State of Alarm’ decree
Spains Council of Ministers on Tuesday modified the Royal Decree governing the “state of alarm” passed at the weekend, clarifying some of…
COVID-19: Iglesias in charge of efforts to help homeless
The coalition government has placed 2nd Vice President and Minister for Social Affairs Pablo Iglesias in charge of coordinating efforts by the…
COVID-19: Gov’t seeks to aid domestic abuse victims
National and regional government authorities are taking measures to minimize the danger of increased domestic violence directed at women during the government-decreed…