https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Brits will be allowed to enter Spain as tourists without having to through a period of quarantine, as the country reopens its borders on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.es/20200621/brits-to-be-allowed-into-spain-without-going-through-quarantine Sun, 21 Jun 2020 10:41:59 +0200 brits-to-be-allowed-into-spain-without-going-through-quarantine Pedro Sanchéz, the Spanish prime minister, said on Monday that he would unveil a "shock therapy" plan to combat the spread of coronavirus as the number of deaths rose to 30 and over 1,000 people were diagnosed with COVID-19. https://www.thelocal.es/20200309/spain-mulls-new-measures-as-coronavirus-death-toll-jumps-to-17 Mon, 09 Mar 2020 11:38:13 +0100 spain-mulls-new-measures-as-coronavirus-death-toll-jumps-to-17 Health authorities in Spain have begun screening around 200 people after a rare, deadly virus known as Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever killed a man and infected a nurse who treated him, officials said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.es/20160901/fears-over-congo-fever-outbreak-after-man-dies-from-tick-bite Thu, 01 Sep 2016 19:00:00 +0200 fears-over-congo-fever-outbreak-after-man-dies-from-tick-bite Spain is braced for a plague of hairy caterpillars which can be harmful to small children and fatal to dogs https://www.thelocal.es/20160208/experts-warn-of-toxic-caterpillar-plague Mon, 08 Feb 2016 17:52:49 +0100 experts-warn-of-toxic-caterpillar-plague People traveling from abroad to Spain are expected to bring the total number of zika virus cases in the country to 200, officials said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20160202/200-cases-of-zika-virus-expected-in-spain-this-year Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:07:43 +0100 200-cases-of-zika-virus-expected-in-spain-this-year Spain's health minister has said the chance of the virus spreading in Spain is "very low" as two cases were confirmed in the country. https://www.thelocal.es/20160127/spain-calls-for-calm-amid-head-shrinking-zika-virus-fears Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:11:12 +0100 spain-calls-for-calm-amid-head-shrinking-zika-virus-fears Three more people have died from Legionnaire's disease in Catalonia in northeastern Spain, officials said on Tuesday, bringing to seven the death toll from the lung infection in the region in just over a week. https://www.thelocal.es/20140924/three-more-dead-from-legionnaires-disease-in-spain Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:16:53 +0200 three-more-dead-from-legionnaires-disease-in-spain UPDATED: A Catholic missionary infected with the deadly Ebola virus who arrived in Madrid early on Monday morning after being flown home from Sierra Leone will not be treated with the experimental ZMapp medication as global supplies have dried up. https://www.thelocal.es/20140922/spain-sends-plane-to-africa-fly-back-ebola-victim Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:40:00 +0200 spain-sends-plane-to-africa-fly-back-ebola-victim Two people have died and 20 others have fallen ill in an outbreak of the lung infection Legionnaire's disease in northeastern Spain, regional health authorities said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20140917/legionnaires-disease-kills-two-in-spain-authorities-catalonia-sabadell Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:47:00 +0200 legionnaires-disease-kills-two-in-spain-authorities-catalonia-sabadell Spain said on Wednesday that a woman who just returned from Saudi Arabia has been infected by the MERS coronavirus in the country's first case of the deadly disease. https://www.thelocal.es/20131107/deadly-mers-coronavirus-found-in-spain Thu, 07 Nov 2013 10:58:00 +0100 deadly-mers-coronavirus-found-in-spain Spanish police and Europol last week detained ten people on the Costa del Sol in an operation targeting a Russia-based cybercrime ring. https://www.thelocal.es/20130214/police-bust-cybercrime-ring Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:11:00 +0100 police-bust-cybercrime-ring