The Local - Spain's News in English

Getting a driving licence in Spain can be a fairly challenging task for foreigners.
There’s having to memorise Spain’s specific road laws, the big difference in prices between driving schools depending on where you are and, not least, understanding Spain’s driving lingo....

The health ministry recorded another 318 Covid-19 fatalities over the last 24 hours, taking the official total to 100,103 just over a year since the first death was recorded in northern Italy.
Some 13,902 new cases were detected, the ministry said, down from 20,765 on Sunday. Numbers tend to drop on Mondays due to lower testing and reporting rates at weekends....

SwissCovid
Launched in June 2020 in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, its intention — then and now — is to curb the spread of the virus by allowing to track chains of infection.
It uses bluetooth to digitally trace contact in order to get a more accurate idea for how the virus is spreading within the general public – and how to stop it....

It is the first time the variant – which is considered to be more infectious and possibly more lethal than known variants – has been detected in Austria.
Genome sequencing carried out by Austria’s AGES medical agency confirmed that the case from late February was in fact one of the Brazilian mutation....