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BREAKING: Fallas de Valencia and Magdalena de Castellon festivals CANCELLED over coronavirus in €500 MILLION blow for Spain’s tourism industry

THE Fallas festival in Valencia has been suspended over coronavirus. Ximo Puig, president of the region, announced at 10pm tonight that the Magdalena de Castellon

10 Mar, 2020 @ 22:25

Costa Blanca·Health·Lead

IN PICS: Panic buying leaves supermarket shelves bare in Spain as Madrid to close libraries, sports and cultural centres over coronavirus fears

Nos merecemos todo lo que nos pasa #COVID19espana pic.twitter.com/1Z6zwzGWIF — Paco Bocero (@FranciscoBocero) March 10, 2020 RESIDENTS in Spain have reported cases of panic buying

10 Mar, 2020 @ 20:57

Health

Deputy leader of Spain’s Vox party contracts coronavirus after he is pictured sniffing and coughing at 9,000-strong event in Madrid

Secretary General Javier Ortega Smith was confirmed as among Spain’s 1,600 victims this afternoon

10 Mar, 2020 @ 20:29

Politics

Spain’s VOX defies coronavirus advice to hold far right meeting with Trump administration in US

VOX representatives have travelled to the United States to meet withleaders of the Trump administration in a bid to strengthen far rightalliances. The controversial party

10 Mar, 2020 @ 19:52

Politics

Study suggests coronavirus spreads easier than previously thought, including via faecal matter, as Spain surpasses 1,600 cases

FRESH studies in China have suggested the coronavirus can survive in the air for at least 30 minutes and spread from person to person by

10 Mar, 2020 @ 19:23

Health

BREAKING: Tourists quarantined at hotel on Spain’s Costa del Sol after catching coronavirus from tour guide

NINE tourists have been quarantined at a Costa del Sol hotel after testing positive for coronavirus. The holidaymakers, mostly from the US, are being isolated

10 Mar, 2020 @ 18:50

Health

COVID-19: ALL flights between Spain and Italy suspended over coronavirus fears

ALL direct flights between Spain and Italy are to be suspended over coronavirus fears, the government has announced. The flights will be stopped from midnight

10 Mar, 2020 @ 18:36

Health

EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus ‘worries’ Costa del Sol and Andalucia hotels and restaurants as holiday bookings plummet in Spain with 35 now dead

Cancellations and slumps in bookings of ‘up to 50%’ have left tourism bosses on the Costa del Sol and in Andalucia ‘worried’, the Olive Press

10 Mar, 2020 @ 17:40

Malaga·Travel News

EXPLAINED: How rising temperatures in Spain could prove an ally in the fight against coronavirus

The heat strengthens us and reduces its transmission

10 Mar, 2020 @ 17:05

Health·National News·Opinion

Malaga Film Festival postponed over coronavirus fears

The Malaga Film Festival has been postponed due to the spread of coronavirus and the risk to the thousands of people who will attend

10 Mar, 2020 @ 17:04

La Cultura·Malaga

Gibraltar Calling cancelled on Coronavirus fears

All events expecting more than 100 people will be cancelled or held behind closed doors to stop Covid-19, halting the Gibraltar music festival.

10 Mar, 2020 @ 14:44

Gibraltar

Nurse becomes infected with coronavirus in Mallorca, bringing confirmed cases in Spain’s Balearic Islands to 11

Health officials say the 40-year-old nurse was in direct contact with an infected patient at Son Llatzer Hospital.

10 Mar, 2020 @ 12:10

Health·Mallorca

BREAKING: Spain’s La Liga and Segunda Division to play behind closed doors for next TWO WEEKS amid coronavirus fears

LA Liga and Segunda Division have both confirmed that the next two fixtures will be played behind closed doors.

10 Mar, 2020 @ 12:09

Health·Sport

Chinese restaurant shuts dining room amid coronavirus fears on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A CHINESE restaurant has shut its dining to safeguard the ‘wellbeing and health’ of its customers amid fears of a coronavirus pandemic. The Beniasia restaurant,

10 Mar, 2020 @ 10:34

Costa Blanca·Food & Drink

IN PICS: Police in hazmat suits enforce coronavirus lockdown on small town in Spain in ‘scenes from Chernobyl’

THESE are the images from a small town in northern Spain in the midst of a coronavirus lockdown. Haro, in La Rioja, has seen some

10 Mar, 2020 @ 09:37

Health

BREAKING: WHOLE of Italy on lockdown over coronavirus outbreak

ITALY is officially on lockdown as it continues to fight its coronavirus epidemic. Travel restrictions will now be in place across the whole country, Prime

9 Mar, 2020 @ 21:52

Health

BREAKING: Madrid and Basque Country close schools, colleges and universities as coronavirus infects more than 1,000 in Spain

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez held crunch talks in Madrid today as he outlined his government’s ‘shock therapy plan’ in response to the virus

9 Mar, 2020 @ 20:11

National News

EXCLUSIVE: Italian expat tests positive for coronavirus on Spain’s Costa del Sol but is ‘refused follow up treatment’ and told to remain isolated at home as number of cases in country nears 1,000

AN Italian expat has tested positive for COVID-19 on the Costa del Sol. The 24-year-old returned home from visiting her family in Italy two weeks

9 Mar, 2020 @ 14:04

Health

COVID-19: American tourist tests positive for coronavirus in Spain’s Ronda

The wife of the America tourist has also been isolated and is under medical supervision.

9 Mar, 2020 @ 12:00

Malaga

Coronavirus deaths in Spain spike by 70% over the weekend

CORONAVIRUS deaths have spiked in Spain over the weekend.

9 Mar, 2020 @ 10:11

Health

WATCH: Spain’s top 5 most hilarious Coronavirus memes – Olive Press TV

Once the internet gets hold of something, it tends to invert it in a million ways. The Coronavirus situation in Spain, and across the world,

8 Mar, 2020 @ 13:38

Health

Coronavirus reaches Murcia region – first victim linked to Madrid trip.

THIS MORNING, the Ministry of Health confirmed the first case of Coronavirus in the Region of Murcia. A 27-year-old woman, recently returned from Madrid, has

8 Mar, 2020 @ 09:20

Costa Blanca·Health·Lead·Madrid