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Economy Minister Nadia Calvino told reporters in Brussels on Monday. The package will take the form of direct payments to companies considered viable but which are struggling financially because of the pandemic, Calvino said. "What we are doing is trying to identify those companies that were fundamentally viable before the pandemic hit and whose solvency has been weakened as a result of the sharp drop in activity," she said. Nearly one in five companies in Spain may have ended 2020 insolvent as the euro zone's fourth-largest economy was one of the hardest hit by the pandemic, according to ...

Supermarkets, department stores and consumer-goods firms in Spain have offered to help overloaded health authorities with coronavirus vaccinations, while the government says that more than one million people have received two shots. Five major retail associations said in a letter to health authorities that their members - many of which already carry out annual inoculations of staff - could administer COVID-19 jabs to their workers to ease the pressure on the health service. Companies including El Corte Ingles, Carrefour and IKEA, said they could operate in strict compliance with the nationa...

Some 123,000 health professionals have been infected since the start of the pandemic. The best way to avoid risk of contagion is therefore to provide masks.

Only Britons who can prove that they are resident can come to Spain...for now. "Ban was initially introduced last month...."

40% of all intensive care beds are still occupied by COVID-19 patients. Catalonia's regional government urged European authorities to speed up approvals of new vaccines such as Russia's Sputnik V.