A Spanish court has lifted a coronavirus curfew imposed on most of Catalonia, including the capital Barcelona, leaving it in place in just a fraction of the northeastern region.
Catalonia's government in mid-July imposed a nightly curfew between 1.00 am and 6.00 am in most municipalities to fight a surge in virus cases, and the region's top court then gave the green light to extend it three times.
But, faced with a request by the regional government to keep the curfew in place in 148 municipalities, the High Court of Justice of Catalonia said the measure was "not justified" in 129 of them, because infection rates there had improved. "In these circumstances, the measures are not so much justified on health grounds, but for reasons of