Catalonia on Friday postponed a parliamentary election scheduled for Feb. 14 until May 30 because of a surge in coronavirus cases that has pushed hospital occupancy in the restive northeastern region of Spain to one of the highest levels in the country.
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.
Galicia, La Rioja and Cantabria became the latest to
tighten coronavirus restrictions.
Despite the worrying rise, Health Minister Salvador Illa highlighted that with
92,000 doses of vaccine administered over the past 24 hours, Spain had reached the desired pace for vaccination, with less than 5% of the population refusing to be inoculated. The rejection (of vaccine) is
very low, almost anecdotal., thanks to the maturity and confidence in science among Spaniards, he told reporters.
Vaccination is voluntary in Spain, but
El Pais newspaper earlier reported that a judge in Galicia had allowed health workers to inoculate an incapacitated care home resident, overruling her family’s objections to protect her health.
The Latest: Wichita, Kan., is resuming in-person classes
January 12, 2021
WICHITA, Kan. Students in Wichita, Kan., are resuming in-person learning, and bars and restaurants in the Kansas City area can stay open later while keeping limits on capacity because of the pandemic.
The Wichita school district is bringing elementary students back to classrooms Wednesday, after sending them home late last year because of a lack of substitute teachers and rising coronavirus cases.
The district plans for middle and high school students to begin later this month a hybrid mode of in-person learning part of the time and at home the rest. The older students have been remote learning since the start of the academic year.