Declared in October as Covid-19 infections surged, the emergency decree has provided regional authorities — which are in charge of health care — a legal framework to enforce nighttime curfews and other restrictions including a ban on non essential travel between regions.
The Balearic islands, which includes tourism hotspot Ibiza, on Thursday received court approval to limit the size of private gatherings to six people and keep its nighttime curfew in place. State-owned rail operator Renfe says ticket sales for next week are up 13 percent over the last week. Spain, one of the hardest hit nations in Europe by the pandemic with nearly 79,000 deaths and 3.5 million cases, is now in a “different” epidemiological situation and its vaccination programme is progressing rapidly, she added.