I'm not sure if Spain is that good of an example. They have been pretty easy going especially with visiting tourists.
Not sure what you mean by easy going? Every tourist who arrives have to give a phone number and address, plus go through a temperature check. That is enforced. So if someone was later on found to be infected, then people can be contacted.
The thing about Spain is that you dont only have 4 "regions" like in the UK.. you have 17. Medical stuff is down to the regions, not the central government. So when the state of alarm ended the central government in Madrid gave back the power to the regions. Most regions rose to the challenge. The regions that did not, are also the ones getting hit the hardest. Madrid is the "Boris or England" of Spain at the moment.
The big problem in Madrid is that not only do you have an incompetent (right wing) local government that refused to put in place restrictions, but now that they have, you have areas of Madrid (mostly right wing areas) that refuse to follow the guidelines. From what I understand, the Madrid police are fining over 500 people a day for breaking quarantine and arrests are going up. There is a story up north in Galicia where a woman broke quarantine to go surfing. She was fined but still refused to comply and then was arrested. Yes she was quarantined because of a positive test. Now she is threatening the lives of the people who reported her.. so guessing she will spend even more time in jail.
So it is no wonder that this bug is spreading in Spain, when you have politically motivated right wingers refusing to comply with common sense. Remind you of somewhere?
The standing joke today, is that in parliament the VOX party has called the current Centre-Left-Communist government "the worst government in 70 years"... Democracy only came to Spain 40 years ago, so that includes the Franco regime. Of course VOX are the new Falange party in Spain... so not sure how to take them that seriously
