Spain’s coronavirus epidemic is under control, government says

A healthcare worker uses a swab to collect a sample at a temporary testing centre for the novel coronavirus in the Spanish Basque city of Getaria on July 15, 2020. (File/AFP)

• Hospitals are coping well with the increase in infections and more than half of new cases are asymptomatic, the ministry said

MADRID: Spain’s coronavirus epidemic is under control, the foreign ministry said on Sunday, after the British government imposed a 14-day quarantine on all travelers returning from the Mediterranean country in response to a surge in new cases there.
Hospitals are coping well with the increase in infections and more than half of new cases are asymptomatic, the ministry said, adding that outbreaks in Catalonia and Aragon should soon be brought under control.