Authorities are assessing the impact ahead of potential disaster zone declarations, while record-low temperatures continue to cause travel delays, school closures and event cancellations
Galicia is bringing forward its curfew and closing hours for hostelry establishment, while La Rioja is locking down Logroño and Navarre is banning smoking on terraces
Ban on non-resident arrivals is pushed to February 2, and a grace period for proving residency has expired. But passengers whose flights were delayed by the snowstorm will not need a new PCR
El Roto cartoon, January 13, 2021
Meanwhile, a judge in Galicia has made the first ruling in the country obliging an incapacitated senior to be vaccinated against the wishes of her family
An engineer caught by the lockdowns on his way to Singapore instead covered 25,700 km by bike on a European tour that allowed him to compare national attitudes to the coronavirus
The health minister admits the epidemiological situation is “very worrying” while some experts are calling for a new home lockdown in order to flatten the curve