Coronavirus likes to travel too
"At this rate, the government is going to turn Barajas [airport] into another March 8", the secretary general of the Popular Party, Teodoro García Egea, has said, in reference to the Women's Day marches in Spain the week before the lockdown began. "After everything we've been through, I am worried about the situation in some countries", the First Minister of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, has written in a letter to the Prime Minister, "and above all those with whom we have direct flights". She wants "a series of specific checks" put in place at ...
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