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World Coronavirus Dispatch: Hong Kong clinics ban fathers during childbirth

Chaos in New South Wales as travelers rush to get out of the state, Big businesses showed resilience in a daunting year and other pandemic-related news around the globe

Spain to start vaccinations against Covid-19 on Dec 27: Health minister

Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa said on Friday that vaccinations against Covid-19 will begin in Spain on December 27

Spain to provide tax-free coronavirus vaccines and tests until 2022 end

Spain will abolish value-added tax on the sale of Covid-19 vaccines and tests until the end of 2022, in accordance with the newly-reached European Union agreements, a senior official said

Apple tracking iPhone users without consent, claims activist Max Schrems

Schrems made a name for himself as a law student by taking on Facebook over the safety of people's data when it was shipped to the US

Cabinet apprised of MoU between India, Spain for collaboration in astronomy

The Union Cabinet was apprised on Wednesday of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Spain for scientific and technical collaborations in the field of astronomy

Spain to hike taxes on large companies, high earners in 2021 budget

Governments around the world have so far said very little about how they plan to pay for the cost of unprecedented levels of state support to virus-hit economies

Spain imposes night-time curfew to curb spread of coronavirus infections

Spain has declared a national state of emergency and imposed a night-time curfew in an effort to help control a new spike in Covid-19 infections

Spain's Covid-19 cases tally surpasses 1 million, death toll tops 34,000

The number of COVID-19 cases in Spain has reached 1,005,295, making the European country the sixth nation globally to confirm over 1 million infections

Spain coronavirus update: Over 7,000 new Covid-19 cases confirmed

The Spanish Ministry of Health on Tuesday confirmed 7,118 new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 896,086

Covid-19 crisis: 100,000 cases in Europe in a day; emergency in Madrid

1,800 students, staff at north England universities test +ve

Spain sees worse-than-feared economic dip in 2020 amid Covid-19 pandemic

Spain is experiencing a second wave of Covid-19 infections, with the highest caseload in Western Europe.

Madrid readies for partial lockdown, files legal challenge amid Covid surge

Madrid's legal challenge argues that restrictions violate regional self-rule laws.

Covid-19: Spanish Health Minister warns of serious risk without tough rules

On Saturday Spain's Health Minister Salvador Illa said current restrictions did not go far enough

Spain to begin clinical trials of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine today

Spain's first trials of a coronavirus vaccine are scheduled to begin on Monday, Alberto Borobia, the chief of the clinical trials unit of the La Paz University Hospital in Madrid, said on Sunday.The vaccine to be tested was developed by US corporation Johnson & Johnson. Phase 1 trials were held in the United States and Belgium. The trials in Spain will fall under Phase 2, to be also held in Germany and Belgium.Three Spanish hospitals will be administering the trials -- the Marques de Valdecilla hospital in Santander will launch then on Monday and the La Paz and La Princesa university hospitals in Madrid will join in on Tuesday, according to Borobia.The expected pool of participants includes 190 volunteers, of which La Paz University Hospital's share will be 50 adults aged 18-55 and 25 seniors aged over 65, Borobia told Spanish news agency Servimedia.The participants will get either one shot of the vaccine or two shots a month apart. There will also be a group that will be given .

Tax Google, Facebook as telecom companies? Spain considering new law

Under the proposed rules internet companies such as Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc, would have to disclose their sales from messaging services in the country

Spain's new draft law aims to tax services like Whatsapp based on revenue

Levies would be imposed on instant messaging providers in the same way as it is on telecoms operators, according the draft law published on Friday

Spain's unemployment rises amid new Covid outbreaks, tourist restrictions

The number of jobless people rose by 0.79% in August, bringing the total of people out of work in Spain to 3.80 million people and bringing to a halt a positive trend that began in May

Returning to school is safe despite coronavirus concern: Spain PM

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that it was safe for children to return to school in the coming days, despite concerns over the increasing spread of Covid-19 in some parts of the country.

Spain wildfire forces 3,000 residents to evacuate in Huelva province

A wildfire that started last week in Spain's Huelva province has continued to spread, prompting the evacuation of around 3,000 residents from nearby areas

Spain registers 43,747 new coronavirus cases in 7 days, tally at 439,286

The ministry also reported 129 deaths in the past week, taking the death toll to 29,011