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Madrid region authorities have announced selective restrictions on freedom of movement to contain the development of the coronavirus outbreak. The introduction of new sanitary restrictions was announced on Friday by the president of the autonomous region of Madrid, Isabel Ayuso.more

Due to the coronavirus epidemic, the inauguration of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, scheduled for 2026, will be delayed, the temple construction council and the investment architect announced yesterday.more

As a result of the agreement signed yesterday between the authorities of CaixaBank and Bankia, the largest bank in Spain was created. Details of the merger between the country's third and fourth banks are to be revealed today at a press conference in Valencia.more

The inhabitants of the town of Ventas de Huelma near Granada in Andalusia, Spain, have not left their homes in the evenings for several days for fear of a black panther that prowls the area. The Civil Guard joined the search, tracking the animal, among others with the help of a helicopter.more

Popular among tourists regions of Spain yesterday announced restrictions on the use of public space. Among them is the Autonomous Community of Madrid, as well as the Balearic island of Ibiza and the main city of Majorca - Palma.more

The coronavirus outbreak has sped up work on Christmas decorations, according to several Spanish city officials. Record holders are the cities of Vigo in the north, and Malaga, in the south, where the first glitters hung on the streets in mid-August.more

For the past two months, attacks by killer whales on sailing ships and small ships have been increasing off the south-west coast of Spain. The watercraft were seriously damaged and several seamen and sailors were injured.more

The liberal Ciudadanos party announced in the Spanish parliament that the mafias were smuggling illegal immigrants from Africa to boats off the coast of Spain by ships and asked the government to act urgently on the matter, Europa Press reported yesterday.more

A court in La Coruna, in the northwest of Spain, ordered pre-trial detention for a man who refused to wear a face mask at his daughter's school.more

Spain’s Health Ministry reported more new coronavirus infections on Friday than any other day since the pandemic began – 12,183 cases, bringing the total to above 566,300.more

The Madrid region has admitted that due to overcrowding of some hospitals, patients with Covid-19 are transferred to other facilities in this region of Spain. The number of patients transported was not given.more

"Fans will be able to return to football stadiums in Spain when an effective coronavirus vaccine is available," said La Liga boss Javier Tebas, who hopes it will happen in the winter of 2021.more

Spain will have its first batch of three million Covid-19 vaccine doses in December, said health minister Salvador Illa on Monday.more

The governments of the regions of Andalusia and the Balearic Islands, due to the increase in the number of cases of Covid-19, have introduced bans on entering the beaches after dark.more

Spain's Labor and Social Economy Minister Yolanda Diaz announced today that Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's government will maintain the remote work regime introduced due to the coronavirus outbreak in mid-March.more

Migrants are increasingly crossing a treacherous part of the Atlantic Ocean to reach the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago near West Africa, in what has become one of the most dangerous routes to European territory.more

LOT Polish Airlines will organize seven charter flights from Spain from today until September 6, the Polish Embassy in Madrid announced.more

Spain registered more than 23,000 new coronavirus cases over the weekend, representing a slowdown in the infection rate from last week.more

Angel Rodriguez Guzman, a 70-year-old infected in mid-March with the coronavirus, left the intensive care unit of a hospital in Madrid on Friday. The man stayed there for a record-long period - 158 days.more

Poland will ban flights from 46 countries, including France and Spain, as of Sept 2, according to a draft regulation published on Thursday, as the country grapples with a spike in coronavirus infections.more

Some easyJet passengers from Gibraltar became liable for two weeks of self-isolation after the airline put them up in Spanish hotels because of an overnight delay.more

As of today, Barcelona, in the north-east of Spain, is banned from offering tourists accommodation in their apartments. The new regulations were approved in early August by the autonomous government of Catalonia.more

The daily "El Pais" estimates that the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic is already underway in Spain; the number of daily infections has increased tenfold since the beginning of June; then 400 infections were registered daily, in July - 2,000, and now - even over 6,000.more

Polish tourists should take into account that the possibility of returning to the country may be limited, and a trip abroad may end with a two-week quarantine - said Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska today.more

According to a survey conducted among Spanish healthcare workers by Doktoralia, nearly 40 percent of physicians are not prepared for the arrival of the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic.more