In one video during the final hours of curfew Saturday night, a police van patrolling Barcelona beach warns crowds over a loudspeaker: “It’s forbidden to gather in groups of more than six people, please leave the beach.”
“In general people in my area have been very responsible,” said Oriol Estival, a 22-year-old from Sant Celoni, a village around 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Barcelona. “Large crowds have occurred in large cities like Barcelona or Madrid. People know the places where there are no police.”
A geography student at the autonomous university of Barcelona, Estival said he saw groups of six drinking at the park in his town, but nothing like the partying seen in videos around Spain.
Nationwide, there are 198 cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 population, but some regions that will maintain restrictions, like Navarra, have a higher rate.
Nearly 28% of Spaniards, or 13.2 million, have received at least one dose of the vaccine against Covid-19, while 12.6% have been fully vaccinated, according to the latest data released Friday.
