Barcelona's streets are largely empty today, with millions of people instructed to stay at home as new coronavirus restrictions come into effect following a spike in the number of infections in the region over the past week.
“It's a disaster,” wails Maria Quintana, looking at her empty bar terrace by the Sagrada Familia in Spain's second city where the number of new cases has tripled to 800 in a week.
“We'd just started to see things coming back to life with the arrival of a few foreign tourists, so this is a step backwards,” said Quintana, who has been in the restaurant business for 35 years.
