Gov’t sees gradual lifting of lockdown starting 27th April
► UPDATE: Gov’t to let children under 14 accompany parents on errands ► Criteria change OKs minors in supermarkets, banks, on walks…
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Minimum income for most vulnerable to be ready in May
Minister of Social Security José Luis Escrivá confirmed in a committee hearing in Spain’s Congress on Wednesday that a new minimum income…
Numbers chaos over testing, non-hospital deaths count
Spain’s Health Ministry reported a slight decrease in the number of deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, while noting a sharp increase of…
Spain braces for worst recession since 1930s Civil War
► IMF projects Spain GDP to plummet -8% this year, with 21% jobless rate ► Government readies for worst recession since 1936,…
NGOs urge regard for children’s health in confinement
Non-governmental organizations working to promote and defend children’s rights in Spain have urged the government to ease the coronavirus lockdown restrictions on…
Despite criticism, Sánchez gov’t lifts some restrictions
Amid criticism from Spain’s opposition parties, some regional government leaders and unease within the leadership of governing coalition partner Unidas Podemos, on…
Medical NGOs pitch in to help Spain fight coronavirus
Non-government organizations specializing in medical assistance and disease prevention are doing their part to help stop COVID-19 in Spain, deploying to the…
Eurogroup reach compromise deal on COVID-19 funding
Finance Ministers for the 19 Eurogroup countries of the 27-member European Union (EU) reached a compromise deal on Thursday to commit some…
Sánchez says ‘new normal’ won’t lift until vaccine found
President Pedro Sánchez told members of Spain’s Congress on Thursday that the government’s de-escalation of the measures adopted to combat the coronavirus…
EU marathon meeting fails to reach COVID-19 accord
European Union Finance ministers meeting in an all-night video-conference session Tuesday, adjourned their marathon meeting at 8 o’clock Wednesday morning no closer…
Right-wing behind social media lies attacking gov’t
Teams of technology sleuths have detected a pattern of right-wing participation in online campaigns using doctored photos, phony videos and false claims…
Migrants released from processing centres amid crisis
Spain’s Interior Ministry has announced that due the COVID-19 crisis it has freed all undocumented migrants awaiting processing in five of the…
Sánchez: European unity in jeopardy over coronavirus
In an open letter published in ten leading European newspapers on Sunday, Spanish President Pedro Sánchez told EU leaders that the fate…
Gov’t preparing to isolate ‘asymptomatic positive’ cases
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez has asked leaders of the country’s 17 regional autonomous communities to begin preparing for isolation of people who…
Sánchez seeks opposition support for crisis measures
A beleaguered Spanish President Pedro Sánchez, under pressure to show results from efforts to stem the further spread of COVID-19 and under…
Ministry insists on quality control of respirator projects
As Spain struggles to come up with sufficient respiratory ventilators to save critically ill COVID-19 patients in hospitals across the country, the…
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…
TOP HEADLINES: Coronavirus crisis in Spain …
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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…
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…