Nightclubs and pubs have been ordered to close across Spain after the country saw a spike of coronavirus cases this week.
Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa made the announcement on Friday. Smoking will also be banned in outdoor areas when keeping a safe distance is impossible.
Mr Illa also advised against meetings of more than 10 people, and warned young people specifically not to gather outside to drink alcohol.
Establishments such as restaurants will have to close by 1am with no customers allowed to enter from midnight.
Speaking at a press briefing on Friday morning, Mr Illa said: “There has been a growing number of outbreaks in recent weeks.
"I am announcing that, for the first time, we have decided to adopt coordinated actions in terms of public health and that these measures have been adopted unanimously.”
Covid-19 cases have surged in Spain with the total infections rising to 337,334 as of Thursday.
It comes after Spain’s hospitals reported seeing patients struggling to breathe returning to their wards, less than two months after suppressing Covid-19.
Health authorities said a military emergency brigade was set up a field hospital in Zaragoza this week as a precaution.
“The data don’t lie,” Rafael Bengoa, the former health chief of Spain’s Basque Country region and international consultant on public health, said.
“The numbers are saying that where we had good local epidemiological tracking … things have gone well,” he said.
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“But in other parts of the country where obviously we did not have the sufficient local capacity to deal with outbreaks, we have community transmission again, and once you community transmission, things get out of hand.”
The health ministry also embarked on one of the world’s largest epidemiological surveys.
Randomly testing more than 60,000 people, it found the virus prevalence to be 5 per cent, showing the population was far from “herd immunity”.
Spain, with a population of 47 million, leads Europe with 44,400 new cases confirmed over the past 14 days.
This compares with just 4,700 new cases registered by Italy, with 60 million inhabitants, which was the first European country to be rocked by the virus.
The number of hospital patients with Covid-19 has risen fivefold in Spain since early July, when cases were down to a trickle after a severe lockdown stopped a first wave of the virus that had pushed the health care system to breaking point.
Additional reporting by PA Media.