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Government expects quick coronavirus test to be available soon and will launch app for people with coronavirus symptoms

Health minister Alba Vergés announces that first results will be out in three weeks

Country moves to "alert" phase with authorities also insisting that all sports events be held behind closed doors

CoMB president calls for "minimizing" impact of outbreak and warns of overwhelming "stretched" Catalan health service

Catalan health authorities say there is no need for people who have been in northern Italy to visit a doctor unless they feel ill

First diagnosis, also first of Iberian Peninsula, is of woman who had recently traveled to northern Italy

Health authorities to meet on Tuesday over protocols regarding illness

The proposal giving people a right to ‘die with dignity’ was approved in the lower chamber

Catalan Labor, Social Affairs and Families minister meets with China's consul general in Barcelona

Some 1,296 organ operations carried out last year, 12% more than in 2018 and 53% more than in 2013

Catalan president and health minister attend 'Posa't la gorra' in central Ciutadella park

4 people have been blinded in one eye and 14 have been hospitalized as a result of turmoil following sentencing of pro-independence leaders

As tobacco consumption increases to 25.6% in Catalonia, new campaign seeks to stop it at source

25.6% of people in Catalonia smoked in 2018, compared to 24% in 2017

Alba Vergés: "We have the responsibility to answer to the people"