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A couple celebrate the Sant Jordi (St George) events in Barcelona amidst coronavirus.
France, which has actually seen an increase too, has released a travel warning and Norway is quarantining arrivals from Spain.
The European rises are echoed in far bigger increases throughout the rest of the world, with record day-to-day new-infection figures of around 280,000 in both of the past 2 days.
” While no nation is unaffected, this rise is driven by high transmission in big and populated countries in the Americas and South Asia,” the World Health Company (WHO) said in a statement on Saturday.
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The government of Catalonia now says all bars and late-night bars in the area are to close for the next two weeks.
The Spanish health ministry reported more than 900 new cases of the infection on Friday. One football group in the 2nd division, Fuenlabrada