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MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain suffered its second-worst month for coronavirus deaths in February with 10,528 fatalities, the worst figure since April last year, government figures showed on Monday. The overall toll now stands at 69,609, health ministry data showed. Although Spain’s third wave peak has passed — the 14-day cumulative case number has fallen from nearly 900 per 100,000 people in late January to 175 currently — the death toll has remained stubbornly high. […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Spain, one of Europe’s hardest-hit nations, has topped three million since the start of the pandemic, the health ministry said Tuesday. Spain recorded another 16,402 cases in the last 24 hours, taking its overall figure to 3,005,487. Seroprevalence studies, which test for antibodies using a blood serum sample, suggest the real figure is far higher. Over the same 24-hour period, Spain also saw […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Madrid authorities on Friday confirmed the first case in the region of the Brazilian variant of coronavirus, which is feared to be particularly infectious, in the region. A 44-year-old man who arrived at Madrid’s airport on January 29 tested positive for the coronavirus and subsequent lab tests confirmed he had caught the new strain, the regional government of Madrid said in a statement. The case is the first report in […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain’s economy contracted sharply by 11 percent in 2020 due to the upheaval triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the National Statistics Institute said in a first estimate published Friday. The figure is largely in line with the fall of 11.2 percent predicted by Spain’s government although the International Monetary Fund had seen a sharper contraction of 12.8 percent. France also saw its economy shrink by 8.3 percent in 2020, Germany […]
by Thomas PERROTEAU MADRID, Spain (AFP) — At least three people were killed on Wednesday when a huge explosion ripped through a building in Madrid, with officials confirming it was caused by a gas leak. Images from the scene showed the walls on the top four or five storeys of the residential building in the heart of the La Latina neighbourhood had been blown out, with debris littered far and wide. Government representative Jose Manuel […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — At least two people were killed on Wednesday when a huge explosion ripped through a building in Madrid, in what appeared to be caused by a gas leak, officials said. The emergency services tweeted that two people had died, while another person was seriously injured and six had suffered light injuries in the blast. “It seems there was a gas explosion in the building,” mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida told reporters at […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — A strong explosion rocked a building in central Madrid on Wednesday, witnesses said, with images from Spanish television and the emergency services showing the street covered in debris. “Nine fire crews and 11 ambulances have gone to Calle Toledo following an explosion in a building,” local emergency services tweeted. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear. © Agence France-Presse
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain registered a record daily number of coronavirus cases on Wednesday, with nearly 39,000 new infections over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said. A total of 38,869 new cases were recorded since Tuesday and 195 deaths. The data showed Spain was in a situation of “very high risk, extreme risk”, said Carolina Darias, minister for territorial policy and civil service. The numbers bring the total number of infections in […]
by Alvaro Villalobos and Noemi Gragera MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Armed with picks and shovels, Madrid residents on Monday slowly shovelled out of Spain’s worst snowstorm in decades, which has turned roads and pavements into skating rinks. Officials asked people to stay at home if possible after Storm Filomena dumped 20-30 centimetres (7-8 inches) of snow on the capital between Friday and Saturday. Emergency services workers and soldiers freed 2,500 drivers trapped in their vehicles […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain’s total number of coronavirus infections surged past two million on Thursday as cases jumped following the Christmas holidays, government figures showed on Thursday. The milestone came as the health ministry announced another 42,360 new cases over the past 48 hours, taking the overall figure to 2,024,904. But seroprevalence studies, that test people using a blood serum sample, suggest the figure is far higher. “The total number of confirmed cases… already […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — An 89-year-old woman died and another 18 pensioners were hospitalized, some with severe burns, after a fire ripped through an elderly care residence in Spain, rescuers said Wednesday. The blaze began late on Tuesday at the care home in the southern city of Seville, with some 170 police, medics and rescuers involved in the operation in which another 78 residents had to be rehoused, the emergency services said in a statement. […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — A 96-year-old living in a care home in central Spain became the first person in the country to be vaccinated against Covid-19 on Sunday, in an event broadcast by national television. She felt “nothing” from the shot, Araceli Rosario Hidalgo Sanchez said with a smile after being injected. With her short white hair, the pensioner living in the Los Olmos retirement home in Guadalajara got up slowly after pulling on her […]
