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MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government will send convoys carrying the COVID-19 vaccine and food supplies on Monday to areas cut off by Storm Filomena which brought the heaviest snowfall in decades across central Spain and killed four people.
Across central Spain, over 600 roads were affected by the rare blizzard and hundreds of travellers were stranded at Madrid’s Barajas airport, which closed on Friday but will reopen gradually later on Sunday.
Forecasters warned of dangerous conditions in the coming days, with temperatures expected to fall to up to minus 10 Celsius (14 Fahrenheit) next week and the prospect of snow turning to ice and damaged trees falling.
Spain to form vaccine convoys through historic snow dump
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January 11, 2021 10.45am
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Madrid: Emergency crews in central Spain will form vaccine convoys through the snow, after clearing 500 roads and rescuing some 1500 stranded people, allowing a weekly shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to be distributed to regional health authorities.
The Spanish government said it would on Monday send convoys carrying the COVID-19 vaccine and food supplies to areas cut off by Storm Filomena, the country s worst snowstorm in recent memory, which has killed four people.
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Updated 10:27 AM ET, Sun January 10, 2021
People walk along a road with fallen branches a day after the heaviest snowfall in decades on January 10 in Madrid, Spain. (CNN)The Spanish government will send convoys carrying the Covid-19 vaccine and food supplies on Sunday to areas cut off by Storm Filomena which brought the heaviest snowfall in decades across central Spain and killed four people.
In the Madrid area, rescuers reached 1,500 people trapped in cars, while police broke up a large snowball fight after authorities appealed for citizens to stay at home for risk of accidents or spreading coronavirus.
The Spanish government will send convoys carrying the Covid-19 vaccine and food supplies on Sunday to areas cut off by Storm Filomena, which brought the heaviest snowfall in decades across central Sp…