Coronavirus infections reverberated across Spain.

Riot police fired blank bullets to disperse protesters who were setting bins a light on Madrid's Gran Via thoroughfare.

And in Barcelona, officers were pelted with stones and other projectiles in a second night of disturbances in the northern Spanish city of Logrono, police reported being attacked by around 150 people who set fire to containers and looted shops.

Similar incidents were reported in a host of other cities.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez condemned the violence as intolerable.

Spain is one of the country's hardest hit by covert.

19 on, like many other countries, is resorting to increasingly drastic measures to tackle the pandemic.