This hilltop town in Spain has cut itself off from the outside world to fight coronavirus -- and there has not been a single recorded case of Covid-19 among its 1,400 inhabitants.
Cordoba, Spain The fortress town of Zahara de la Sierra in southern Spain is used to fending off enemies. The Moors and Christians fought over it in medieval times, and it was sacked by the French in 1812. Now its formidable position high above the Andalusian countryside has suddenly become an invaluable asset once more.
On March 14, Zahara cut itself off from the outside world as a dangerous coronavirus spread its tentacles across Spain. The mayor, 40-year-old Santiago Galván, decided to block all but one of the town's five entrances. Galván acted the day that Spain's"state of alarm" came into force.Since then, the country has recorded more than 100,000 cases and 10,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University figures.
Similar sanitation precautions have been introduced inside Zahara."Every Monday and Thursday at 5:30 p.m. a group of around 10 people are out in the streets to disinfect the town, all the streets, plazas and outside homes," Galván says.One of them is local farmer Antonio Atienza, whose tractor trundles through the town spraying the streets.
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