113-year-old woman beats Kovid-19 in Spain

It was announced that a 113-year-old woman living in an elderly nursing home in Spain managed to overcome the Kovid-19 disease.

He explained that a 113-year-old woman who lived in an elderly nursing home in the Olot district of the city of Girona in the north east of Spain managed to overcome the new type of coronavirus (Kovid-19) disease.

Reports in the Spanish press reported that Spain's oldest person, 113-year-old Maria Branyas, beat Kovid-19, where she had been fighting for several weeks.

It was stated that Branyas was quarantined in the room in the elderly nursing home after the Kovid-19 test was positive and the last test was negative.

Catalan leader under pressure to drop independence bid

Catalonia's secessionist leader came under intense pressure on Monday to abandon plans to declare independence from Spain after hundreds of thousands of unionists took to the streets at the weekend to protest against the region breaking away.

Spain fears the Catalan parliament will vote for independence on Tuesday, when Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is due to address the assembly in the wake of a banned October 1 referendum in which Catalan officials say people voted overwhelmingly for secession.

Under Catalonia's referendum law, deemed unconstitutional by Madrid, a vote for independence on Tuesday would start a six-month process that would envisage divorce talks with Spain before regional elections and a final act of separation.

But the Spanish government, buoyed by Sunday's protests in Barcelona, the Catalan capital, made it clear on Monday it would respond immediately to any such vote.

"I'm calling on the sensible people in the Catalan government ... don't jump off the edge because you'll take the people with you," Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaría said in an interview with COPE radio station.

"If there is a unilateral declaration of independence there will be decisions made to restore law and democracy."

EU-funded smart city renovation in Spain not to everyone's taste

With its 31 buildings, some 1,500 flats housing 4,000 residents, the Torrelago district in Laguna de Duero, near Valladolid in northwestern Spain, is emerging as a large-scale example of energy efficiency in Europe. The old red brick facades have been given a green makeover, aimed at reducing energy consumption and improving comfort. Part of the EU project CITyFied, the renovation work started a year ago and is scheduled to be completed next by 2017.

“Out of the 31 buildings that make up the Torrelago district, seven have already had their facades completely renovated with new insulation, and inhabitants have noticed a considerable improvement in comfort. Plus, energy needs have dropped by 40 percent,” says project coordinator Ali Vasallo.

The rehabilitation project in Laguna de Duero includes upgrading the heating and hot water systems by replacing gas boilers with biomass ones. There are also plans to upgrade the energy distribution and management systems with smart grids.

“We have several sources of heating – 80% will be produced using biomass and 20 percent using natural gas. And we also have a backup system: in the event of high demand, if we don’t have enough biomass, we can also use natural gas to produce energy. These multiple sources of energy production bring down CO2 emissions by more than 70 %,” says Veolia research engineer Javier Martin Sanz.

The project has encountered strong opposition from some local residents who claim they were not consulted before renovation work went ahead and have accused it of being a “fraud” using poor quality materials.

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