The wild boar population in Catalonia numbered over 200,000 before the arrival of African swine fever (ASF), and over 2.4 million across Spain as a whole. These figures were revealed by the first European wild boar density map, produced by the Health and Biotechnology Research Group of the Institute for Game and Wildlife Research (IREC) and the European consortium ENETWILD.

An interference of probable Russian origin spoiled the GPS navigation services of a Bulgarian airport and is going complicate the landing of Ursula von der Leyen's plane. To make the magnitude of the alarm caused by the sabotage more understandable, the media explained that the pilots had to use paper maps.