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The spokesperson for Madrid’s regional health department revealed that the suspected cases were confirmed in gay men through fluids.

UK cases grow to 9, while Spain reports 23 suspected cases and Portugal 5 confirmed, 15 suspected.

Madrid is ending even the most basic monitoring, setting the stage for a new surge whose full extent will not be known until hospitalizations and deaths begin to rise.

The Spanish government on Wednesday proposed that masks no longer be required in most indoor public settings from Wednesday April 20th 2022, just after the Easter holidays rather than during as had been suggested. 

A date for lifting the need to wear masks indoors has been proposed. Will it be approved?

Two weeks after all schools reopened in Spain, COVID-19 infections are rising among children as the PSOE-Podemos government pursues a policy of mass infection.

——— ——— HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING: OTTAWA — Canada will donate 17.7 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to lower-income countries through the U.N.-backed COVAX program for vaccine sharing. Federal Procurement Minister Anita Anand said Monday that the doses are excess supply. The timing of the donation has yet to be worked out. While at the G7 summit last month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged Canada would give back 13 million doses i...

——— ——— SYDNEY — Australia has recorded a third COVID-19 death this year. New South Wales state Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant on Tuesday declined to say whether the man, who was aged in his 70s, had been vaccinated. He died Monday in Sydney’s eastern suburbs where the current Sydney cluster began last month. The New South Wales state government has said Sydney’s three-wee-old lockdown is likely to be extended Friday. A woman in her 90s from southw...

European states scrap social distancing as COVID-19 pandemic surges The COVID-19 pandemic, driven by the Delta variant, is surging in Europe. New COVID-19 infections across Europe rose by 43 percent over the last week to 548,000, as European governments end social distancing measures. Over 80 percent of the cases were concentrated in Britain (190,294 cases), Russia (168,035) and Spain (89,036), where cases rose 148 percent. A COVID-19 patient under Ecmo (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) rem...

Faced with soaring numbers of new coronavirus infections among unvaccinated young people, some Spanish regions are reinstating curbs on nightlife only weeks after dropping them. Fearing that the surging contagion could strain health care services as stressed employees try to go on summer holidays, health officials in several parts of the country are also rushing to get COVID-19 vaccine shots to people under 30. Spains strict vaccination rollout has so far focused on older, more vulnerable gro...