The Generalitat will terminate on January 31 the controversial contract with Ferroser Auxiliary Services, subsidiary of Ferrovial, for tracking coronavirus cases in Catalonia. From then on, the Public Health Agency Autonomic will assume the management of the control of the close contacts of patients diagnosed with Covid. As the Secretary General of Health explained today, […]
Tag: State of alarm
T2 at El Prat airport is closed again due to lack of flights
The passenger operation of the airport of Barcelona concentrates again from this week on the terminal T1, just as it happened during the alarm state. The reason is the same: the lack of air traffic in facilities that, far from managing between 700 and 800 daily flights as they were used to at this time […]
Coronavirus raises costs without help for disabled families
“Nothing is known about these kids like my son. They are totally invisible. We were aware that we were forgotten, but with the pandemic the maximum has been reached.” Montserrat she is the mother of Pol, a 22-year-old young man, affected by cerebral palsy and spastic tetraplegia. It is 98% dependent. “He cannot dress or eat […]
Twenty days with up to ten hours without light in the Raval of Barcelona
There are houses in the neighborhood of Raval, in the center of Barcelona, which chain 20 days of blackouts. “We can be between five and ten hours without light, depending on the day,” calculates an affected neighbor of the Salvador street, where the damage completely affects several buildings, including businesses, and extends to buildings on […]
The legal vacuum allows cannabis clubs to avoid closure due to the coronavirus in Catalonia
On the same stretch of street in the district of Eixample of Barcelona There are two bars and a gym affected by the bolts in Catalonia before the second wave of the coronavirus. There is also a place without a label and with a bell at the entrance. Is he Dragon club, one of about […]
El Prat airport, in its lowest hours due to the coronavirus crisis
The airport of Barcelona it has run out of flights to the United States for the first time in 40 years. The airline Level, belonging to the group IAG, was the last to suspend its route to New York. At the beginning of last March, the three main US airlines canceled all connections to or […]
The anti-eviction platforms cross out the new decree of the Generalitat of “farce” and “toast to the sun”
The decree with which the Generalitat intends to interrupt evictions in Catalua As of this Thursday, skepticism awakens among the groups that try to stop them. The Platform for People Affected by the Mortgage (PAH) and the housing unions that emerged in Barcelona they accumulate eviction requirements for the next few weeks, which they intend […]
Money from the ‘correbous’ to alleviate the effects of the coronavirus crisis
Forced to alter or suspend their patron saint festivities due to the coronavirus crisis, several Catalan municipalities have canceled the traditional ones this year correbous and they have allocated the budget items for bullfighting festivities (which amount to 850,000 euros per year throughout the community, according to animal groups) to measures against the effects of […]
Nightlife adds 800,000 euros in losses with its ‘blackout’ due to the virus
The inactivity imposed on nightlife by the coronavirus has left an economic hole of great depth in the box of the sector. The premises that, without the pandemic, concentrated hundreds of young people weekend after weekend in crowded spaces, now have the door shut tight. For the public administration, your activity is incompatible with the […]
Reverse in an eviction practiced on the brink of curfew in Barcelona
Thursday’s rage has turned into euphoria this Friday in Ciutat Meridiana, one of the neighborhoods hardest hit by evictions and poverty in Barcelona. The jubilation erupted when Ruth retrieved the hand keys of an operator sent by BBVA, the day after being evicted with her three young children, two hours after the curfew by the […]