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The Guardia Civil has caught a gang. The gang used speedboats to trade drugs all along the Mediterranean coast. The Guardia Civil cooperated with other authorities in arresting the gang members. The joint operation seized, among other things, ships and equipment with a market value of more than 1.5 million euros.

Aid organization Caritas Spain sees an enormous increase in the demand for help. About 500,000 people in Spain first or after a long time called on the aid organization during the Covid19 pandemic. This is evident from a report published by Caritas Spain. In the past year, 1 in 3 people requesting help approached Caritas […]

The corona pandemic is leading to the emergence of more private hospitals in the Spanish region of Valencia. The regional board is currently discussing the realization of three new private hospitals. One in five hospital beds is currently privately owned. The Spanish newspaper La Provincias wrote that health care in Valencia is being pushed to […]

In a letter to the House of Representatives, the outgoing Minister of Health Hugo de Jonge has written that the negative antigen rapid test result for travelers from high-risk areas, such as Spain, can be extended from 4 to 24 hours before the start of the trip to the Netherlands. Currently, the mandatory negative antigen […]

Procedures for registering for State healthcare and for the Covid-19 vaccine differ from region to region, although nationally, the vaccine and public medical attention are universally available to all residents. In the Comunidad Valenciana, expats will need to be on the padron and be registered for State Healthcare. People with private insurance are able to […]

Once the pandemic is over and unlimited travel is available again, many people will pack their bags and go on vacation. According to the Spanish holiday industry, this postponed travel wish will ensure a rapid recovery of this hard-hit sector. This is evident from a survey by the research institute for tourism ObservaTUR. The prospect […]

Elche city hall finally received Generalitat permission to cover over excavations carried out at the municipal market and remove safety barriers. This does not apply to the remains of the Moorish Baths and Civil War air-raid shelters in front of the market, which will possibly become an open-air museum.

A striped dolphin washed up on Playa de los Locos was later removed by Torrevieja’s municipal biologist with the assistance of Proteccion Civil. A post-mortem will determine the cause of death although the dead cetacean appeared to have been attacked by a group of bottle-nosed dolphins.

Valencian President Ximo Puig, alongside the Minister of Education Vicent Marzà and Health Minister Ana Barceló, has announced that the vaccination of education professionals will begin from Monday, March 15, and will be carried out in 23 municipalities of the entire Valencian Community. 240 teams with 1,000 health professionals are being readied and will be […]

A chapter of an outlaw motorcycle club allegedly involved in drug dealing has been disbanded by the Guardia Civil in Alicante province. Officers rounded up 10 suspects and seized 7,371 cannabis plants, 31 kilos of marijuana in buds, and five kilos of the drug which had been bagged for sale.