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Added on the 19/02/2021 17:32:22 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Sun, sea and sand – but no holidaymakers to enjoy them. In our latest edition of Europe Now, Catherine Nicholson travels to what's normally a holiday hotspot – Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands – to find out how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted daily life, the tourism industry and the wider economy.
It's spring 2021 and to date France has recorded the most cases of Covid-19 in all of Europe – including non-EU countries – and the third-highest death toll after Italy and the UK. It's now more than one year since President Emmanuel Macron first told French people to stay home and that he would do "whatever it takes" to keep people's businesses and livelihoods going.
Spain will have vaccinated "a very substantial part" of its population of 47 million people against Covid-19 by mid-2021, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announces. He says the government had put together "a comprehensive vaccination plan" that will be presented at Tuesday's cabinet meeting, making Spain the first within the European Union, alongside Germany, to fully map out such an immunisation scheme.
Valladolid/Seville/Oviedo/Gijon/Aviles, May 11, EFE, (Camera: J.Casares/María Fueyo).- Nearly 53,000 inhabitants advanced on Monday to phase one of de-escalation amid the coronavirus pandemic in Castile and Leon. The streets of Seville's city centre are also now in phase 1 of the de-escalation process and are full of open bars and terraces with limited occupancy. Asturias has also on Monday entered phase 1 with many small shops reopening. FOOTAGE OF VALLADOLID ON THE FIRST DAY AFTER ENTERING PHASE 1, OPEN BARS IN SEVILLE AND OPEN STORES AROUND ASTURIAS.
The country has seen its COVID-19 fatality rate fall from an initial 13% to 1%, and according to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez "the virus is no longer so deadly".
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