Catalonia Today

PRODUCTION “We thought it would be a matter of weeks but the use of hydroalcoholic gel has become commonplace”

PRODUCTION “There was a point where Sporty was making a thousand masks a day. Now the average is between 500 and 700”

LESS STRICT “Right now I’m in the south of Scotland and I have the general feeling that the measures are less restrictive than in Catalonia”

THE POWER OF READING “Nine months after offering his voice, he still reads over the phone, but now only on Sundays”

FLOWERING EMPATHY “Confining ourselves has helped us to put ourselves in the shoes of other colleagues”

THE HARDEST THING “You take the hand of someone you barely know to try to make up for the lack of their family, even though that is irreplaceable”

ON WAKING UP “They asked why their relatives were not coming. How do you tell them that there’s a global pandemic and that everyone is at home?”

Last year a life-changing pandemic spread around the world. Here, people from all walks of life recount their personal Covid stories

In December, Spain’s high court in Catalonia, the TSJC, ruled that 25% of classes in Catalan schools must be in Spanish, a decision many see as an attack on the Catalan language. Also in December, the...