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Venue is part of Fira Barcelona, which also shelters vulnerable people during the crisis

50 people with coronavirus have died in city and three neighbouring towns in central Catalonia

Venues will support city's four main hospitals and expand capacity by 600 beds

Girona's 'Temps de flors' floral displays postponed, as are Berga's 'La Patum' festivities

Catalan government had decreed total confinement in area with higher death rate than Lombardy

With football matches postponed, players and clubs begin offering their help in efforts to halt the spread of covid-19

Towns of Igualada, Vilanova del Camí, Santa Margarida de Montbui and Òdena, in quarantine since March 13, have seen 63.1 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

February 25 saw first covid-19 case announced; four weeks later official number stands at almost 10,000, with over 500 deaths

Study suggests number of cases will peak in late April, as health department considers "multiple scenarios"

The Fira de Barcelona with initially accommodate 225 people, with space to expand to 1,000

Drivers feel "unprotected" as they experience an 85% drop in earnings

Animal rights NGO petitions state to reallocate resources to culture everyone enjoys rather than "just a minority without empathy or compassion"

Spanish government tightens restrictions in homes after soldiers report finding residents living alongside "people dead in their beds"

Almost 40,000 cases in Spain, only behind China, Italy and the US – a fifth of them reported by Catalan health system

On March 24, 2015, an Airbus A320-211 took off from Barcelona airport, some 40 minutes later all on board were dead, including 16 children