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President of the Government of Spain visits 'Don Bosco' Salesian School in Angola

Thursday 8 April 2021

The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, visited the 'Don Bosco' Salesian School in the district of Lixeira, in the capital of Angola, run by the Spanish priest, Manuel Ordóñez, which organises activities particularly aimed at literacy, vocational training and care for children at risk.

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Pedro Sánchez advocates Spain's strategic association with Africa in Angola

Thursday 8 April 2021

The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, visited Angola, the first destination on his African tour that began on Thursday, which will also take him to Senegal - two priority countries in the Foreign Action Plan recently presented at "Focus on Africa 2023", with the aim of stepping up collaboration with African governments and of enhancing Spain's presence in Africa through a genuine strategic association with the continent.

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70% of the Spanish population will be immunised by end of August

Tuesday 6 April 2021

The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, gave a press briefing at Moncloa Palace to report on the development of the vaccination plan in Spain over the coming months, stressing the importance of the vaccination process in defeating the virus once and for all and in recovering normality.

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Government pushes through creation of network of comprehensive care centres for victims of sexual violence

Tuesday 6 April 2021

The centres will care for people and offer advice by phone, electronically and in person 24 hours a day. The government also extended restrictions on flights from Brazil and South Africa to control the spread of the new variants of COVID-19.

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Second study on seroprevalence in Spain updates information on vaccine-preventable diseases and other infections

Friday 9 April 2021

The diseases included in the study were poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, measles, rubella, mumps, chickenpox, serogroup C invasive meningococcal disease, hepatitis A, B, C, D and E, and infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Teresa Ribera welcomes approval in Lower House of first draft of Climate Change and Energy Transition Act as key instrument to modernise and transform Spain

Thursday 8 April 2021

The Fourth Vice-President of the Government and Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, welcomed the approval by the Ecological Transition Committee of the Lower House of Parliament of the draft Climate Change and Energy Transition Act and its submission to the Upper House - a text that establishes the targets to attain the full decarbonisation of the economy by the year 2050 with a 100% renewable electricity system.
Inter-territorial Council specifies an agreement on activities in that are incompatible with use of a face

Wednesday 7 April 2021

The Inter-territorial Council of the National Health System also approved, by a large majority, the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine for people over the age of 60 following the proposal made in a Paper on Vaccines and as a result of the decision by the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC).
Spanish Tax Agency (AEAT) receives award for innovation from Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function for its 'DIVA' service to refund VAT to travellers

Tuesday 6 April 2021

The Spanish Tax Agency has digitalised the process to refund VAT to travellers ('DIVA') - a system now implemented at 58 airports, ports and land borders in Spain to facilitate the refund of the tax to travellers not resident in the EU.
In seasonally-adjusted terms, social security system records 19,029,433 contributors in March

Tuesday 6 April 2021

In seasonally-adjusted terms, industry has recorded a rise in the number of workers every month since June 2020, as has construction, all bar one month. Without this adjustment, the average number of people in work stood at 18,920,902, up 70,790 on the figure for February.

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