The standoff continues between Educació and teachers’ unions in Catalonia. Yesterday Thursday, after six hours of negotiation and 300 million more on the table, there was no agreement and the union representatives decided to lock themselves in the conselleria headquarters.

The day has finally arrived. The total solar eclipse, the first in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands in over 100 years, will test mobility on roads and highways this afternoon, with a focus on the AP-7, and the social response to an astronomical phenomenon turned into a great spectacle that almost no one wants to miss. Without recent precedents and few possible comparisons, today one of the great unknowns will be answered: will there be massive movements, seeking the best observation point in the path of totality, from Galicia to Mallorca, where the Moon will completely cover the Sun?

Twelve employees of the Radboudumc university hospital in Nijmegen, in the eastern Netherlands, have been placed under preventive quarantine for six weeks after potentially being exposed to the hantavirus while treating an infected patient from the Hondius cruise ship.