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More than 1,000 Spanish healthcare workers have gone into isolation after wearing faulty medical masks bought from China.

Spain has shut down one of the country’s most famous events due to the coronavirus.

MADRID (AP) — Spain has reached 20,000 deaths for the coronavirus pandemic and total infections increased to more than 190,000.

A woman in the nude jumped on top of a police cruiser in Spain after attending a court appearance for violating the country-wide stay-at-home order.

Some 50 migrants on Monday forced their way into Spain’s Melilla city over the fence that separates the European enclave in northern Africa.

President Donald Trump and his coronavirus task force on Sunday noted that the number of infections and deaths from the virus is stabilizing in many areas, offering Americans some hope.

MADRID (AP) — Spain has reported 809 more deaths over the last 24 hours, for a new tally of 11,744 fatalities from the pandemic.

In the last 24 hours, 950 people have died in Spain from the Chinese coronavirus, causing the nation’s overall death toll from the virus to exceed 10,000 as of Thursday.

Chinese state media on Tuesday deflected complaints about the poor quality of masks and coronavirus test kits shipped from China to other countries by insisting “quality concerns” are overblown and the “vast majority” are up to standards despite growing complaints to the contrary. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) media organs blamed the countries that purchased Chinese supplies for using them improperly and cast aspersions on the foreign suppliers of raw materials to Chinese industry.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain and Italy have demanded more European help as they fight still-surging coronavirus infections amid the continent’s worst crisis since World War II. In the U.S., authorities urged millions around New York City to stop travelling to keep the virus contained.

(AFP) — Europe was reeling from a staggering surge in coronavirus deaths Saturday, still days or weeks from what experts desperately hope will be the epidemic’s peak.

Several youths in southern Spain attacked a convoy of ambulances carrying elderly patients with coronavirus, throwing rocks at the vehicles.

The European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) has predicted that warmer temperatures this summer are unlikely to halt the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.

The Spanish government bought 640,000 EU-certified coronavirus tests from a Chinese company. They do not work.  

Spanish troops disinfecting nursing homes have found, to their horror, residents living among the infectious bodies of the deceased.

Spain entered its second week under national lockdown by recording its deadliest day since the Chinese coronavirus reached its shores, with 426 people dying in just 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths in the country to 2,182. In

Throughout the world, some 13,500 people have died from the coronavirus, with at least 313,000 confirmed infections. Europe is now considered by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be the epicentre of the virus, leading to economic and health crises across the continent.

The coronavirus has claimed the lives of over thirteen hundred people in Spain, but the country’s Health Minister says “the worst days are on their way”.

Two men were arrested in Barcelona after a car was driven into the airport, but police say have been able to rule out a terror motive. 

Neighbors under coronavirus lockdown in Spain surprised an 80-year-old woman on her birthday by singing “Happy Birthday” from their apartment windows and presenting her with a small cake.

According to a recent report, e-commerce giant Amazon refused to close two of its warehouses in Spain despite three confirmed cases of Wuhan coronavirus amongst its workers. The company has even reportedly added dozens of temporary workers for the facilities.

Spain has become the fourth most virus-infected country in the world, and closing its borders is a “real possibility” being considered.

MADRID (AP) – Spain´s government is set to announce Saturday that it is placing tight restrictions on movements and closing restaurants and other establishments in the nation of 46 million people as part of a two-week state of emergency to fight the sharp rise in coronavirus infections.

Spain took a major step Friday toward a similar lock-down to Italy as it struggles to ride the wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

MADRID (AP) – Spanish police have arrested 89 people suspected of belonging to a crime ring that smuggled both migrants and hashish from North Africa to mainland Spain.

MADRID (AP) – It’s been a tough journey for the first-division soccer club from Wuhan, the city at the epicentre of the virus outbreak in China.

Researchers found in a 2017 study that edits to Wikipedia about scientific subjects influenced the content of scientific literature and what studies would be cited in papers based on their usage on the “online encyclopedia.” Last year, another study found edits about Spanish cities had a measurable impact on tourist activity and an earlier study found investor sentiment could also be influenced. In the case of scientific research, the results showed that the creation of one Wikipedia page influenced up to 250 scientific papers.

TEL AVIV – A carnival troupe danced through the streets of a Spanish town dressed like Nazis and Jewish concentration camp prisoners next to a float made to look like crematoria, sparking outrage from Israel’s embassy in Madrid and Jewish groups. 

A tourist hotel on the Canary Island of Tenerife was placed in quarantine Tuesday after one man tested positive for Coronavirus.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Spain on Tuesday was searching for some 143 people missing on five migrant boats en route to the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, according to Spain’s maritime rescue service. A Civil Guard plane was searching

Alarmists are charging that climate change is the culprit behind a “toxic caterpillar plague” affecting southern Spain, insisting that global warming has ushered in an early spring.

The Spanish parliament has approved a proposed law by the new Socialist-led government to legalize euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide.

Nokia on Wednesday became the latest company to drop out of one of the world’s biggest tech fairs over Coronavirus worries.

Spain on Tuesday resumed the search for 67 migrants missing from a boat trying to reach Europe after authorities rescued 119 others.

MADRID (AP) – Spain confirmed its second case of the new virus from China, and a plane evacuating more than 200 people from the Chinese city at the centre of the epidemic landed Sunday in Britain.

The Spanish supreme court has granted two women, the widows of a Moroccan polygamist, the rights to widows’ pensions in a landmark ruling, claiming that polygamy does not prevent pension allocation.