3-Nov-21: 'Mandatory use of Covid passports extended in Catalonia'
<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-6f33d02c-7fff-6e85-758b-54746591a8af"><span>EU Covid certificates will be mandatory not only in nightclubs, but from now on also for events in restaurants and hotels with indoor dance floors. The measure has to be greenlighted by the Catalan high court. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Most Covid restrictions have been extended for two more weeks. </span><span>Yet authorities will expand the use of the Covid pass to banquets and social gatherings in hotels and restaurants with indoor dance floors.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Unemployment dropped for the eighth month in a row in October, traditionally a bad month for jobseekers. It is now down by 22% on last year and affects 377,000 people, around pre-pandemic levels.</span></p>
<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-7ebeec20-7fff-e791-bdd7-4651f3ed0c8c"><span>The Catalan police is investigating the rape of a 16-year-old girl that could have been perpetrated by several people. The crime has shocked residents of her hometown, Masquefa, where a minute of silence was held.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Barcelona mayor Ada Colau has defended her plans to make the city more pedestrian-friendly at COP26. A UN report has praised the capital's superblocks, </span><span>as its low emissions zone for vehicles has reduced pollution levels.</span></p>
<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-cd7c6a4b-7fff-3aed-30cf-cf72e4b3072d"><span>'Motomami' - this is the name of Rosalía's new album, which will be released next year. The Catalan singer shared a 16-second teaser of what is likely its title track</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>The cold is already here! Temperatures are expected to fall sharply in the coming days.</span> In the Pyrenees, snowflakes have already left a winter landscape. And temperatures can approach 0 degrees inland, and 6 degrees on the coast.</p> / ACN