Health officials maintain that the goal is to get pupils back in classrooms and allow their parents back to work. But even the man in charge of Spain’s Covid-19 response admits ‘things are not going well’, as Graham Keeley reports from the Costa Brava
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The queues to get on the beach stretched along the road as temperatures rose to 30C at midday.
None of this seemed to put off the crowd of mostly young sunbathers waiting to find a free spot to brush up on their tan in Llafranch, a Costa Brava resort where the late British writer Tom Sharpe made his home.
As Spaniards have taken to socialising with gusto since the end of lockdown, it is scenes like this which have been blamed for the country having the fastest rising caseload for coronavirus in Europe.
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