• Coronavirus: De-escalation in Spain: what can be done and when in each phase

Wearing masks to protect yourself from the coronavirus is already mandatory in public spaces throughout Spain, whether outdoors or closed, as long as a social distance of two meters cannot be maintained, according to the order of the Ministry of Health that comes into force today , and that if it is not complied with can lead to a sanction. The autonomous communities outline the plans for the phase changes of the next week in the midst of the favorable prospects for the evolution of the epidemic, with contagions increasingly controlled and the number of deaths below one hundred for four days.

Coronavirus data in Spain

    * Healthcare no longer reports positives in antibody tests

    Total figures: 232,555 cases of coronavirus diagnosed by PCR; 27,888 dead

  • 66,860 in Madrid (8,912 dead)
  • 55,888 in Catalonia (6,021 dead)
  • 18,586 in Castilla y León (1,960 dead)
  • 16,739 in Castilla-La Mancha (2,913 dead)
  • 13,435 in the Basque Country (1,480 dead)
  • 12,502 in Andalusia (1,371 deaths)
  • 10,949 in the Valencian Community (1,378 deaths)
  • 9,067 in Galicia (607 dead)
  • 5,551 in Aragon (843 dead)
  • 5,136 in Navarra (503 dead)
  • 4,033 in La Rioja (353 dead)
  • 3,040 in Extremadura (504 dead)
  • 2,374 in Asturias (304 dead)
  • 2,300 in the Canary Islands (155 dead)
  • 2,277 in Cantabria (209 dead)
  • 2,018 in the Balearic Islands (221 dead)
  • 1,560 in Murcia (148 dead)
  • 121 in Melilla (2 dead)
  • 119 in Ceuta (4 dead)
  • 149,576 people have been cured until Sunday
  • They have tested positive 51,090 toilets

08.55. The CEOE breaks out after Sánchez's pact with Bildu

CEOE and Cepyme have expressed this Thursday their "resounding" rejection of the PSOE and Unidas Podemos agreement with EH Bildu to repeal the labor reform in exchange for their support for the latest extension of the state of alarm. In the opinion of the businessmen, this pact supposes an "outrageous contempt" for social dialogue, "for those who dynamite"; to the role that the Constitution itself grants to the social agents, and to the State institutions themselves "at the most delicate moment of the Spanish economy and, therefore, when this dialogue becomes more necessary".

08.52. Mertxe Aizpurua (Bildu): "Labor reform cannot fall overnight"

Bildu's reaction after last night's modification of the agreement with the Government to repeal the labor reform has not meant a break with the Executive, according to Mertxe Aizpurua, EH Bildu's spokesman in Congress, a few hours after learning that From full repeal, it was passed to partial repeal. In an interview on RNE, Aizpurua explained that "the partial modification is only a nuance and the background remains the same. The qualification seems to be terminological. Labor reform cannot fall overnight to avoid leading to citizenship to a legal vacuum. "

08.33. Iglesias: "The agreement is to repeal the literal labor reform"

New version of the Government on the agreement with Bildu to repeal the labor reform after the comings and goings experienced this Wednesday. This morning, the Vice President of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, was giving a new version in an interview on Catalunya Radio after the total repeal of the labor reform approved in 2012 was canceled last midnight: "In the United agreement we can with the PSOE to Forming a government speaks of the total repeal of the labor reform. In the pact signed yesterday, that is the agreement. The agreement is to repeal the literal labor reform. "

After the Government agreed with Citizens and the PNV its affirmative vote to obtain the authorization of Congress, it has been made public this Wednesday that the abstention of EH Bildu is the result of the signing of a political agreement with the PSOE and United We can repeal "in its entirety" in the coming months the 2012 labor reform approved by the PP. But this commitment has only been in effect for a few hours, and only three hours later the tables turned. In a "clarifying" note, released at midnight, he reported that this point is canceled and a new wording is introduced that eliminates both the allusion to a "full" repeal and the deadlines for compliance.

08.20. Health and Madrid address the third request on going Phase 1 of de-escalation

The Ministry of Health and the Community of Madrid meet to address the third request from the regional executive to access the first phase of de-escalation, which has decided to take the two previous refusals to the Supreme Court. The Ministry of Health defends that Madrid complies with the parameters set by the central Executive in terms of healthcare capacity, health indicators with a decrease in the incidence of coronavirus and in relation to the detection and surveillance network of new cases.

07.55. Trump says he will stop taking hydroxychloroquine "in two days"

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has assured that he will stop taking hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug without proven efficacy against the coronavirus , within "two days". "I think the regimen ends in a day or two. I think in two days," said Trump, who began taking the drug preventively after a member of his team tested positive for Covid. -19 .

Hours earlier, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has defended the use of hydroxychloroquine, claiming that it is "safe," as reported by CNN television. "Hydroxychloroquine is a drug that has been used for 65 years for lupus, arthritis and malaria. It has a very safe profile," said McEnany. However, she has stated that, "like any medicine, it must be administered by a doctor to a patient, so no one should take it without a prescription from their doctor."

07.22. The Kings visit Mercamadrid at dawn to visit their stalls

The kings visited this morning the facilities of Mercamadrid, the largest fresh food distribution and marketing platform in Spain, in order to get to know their activity first hand and tour some of the fruit and fish stalls. Don Felipe and Doña Letizia began the visit at 5.30 am, when it was still dark, accompanied by the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, and the Mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida.

Protected with a mask and gloves, the kings have been received by the Mercamadrid management team, with whom Felipe VI held a telematic meeting on March 25 to find out the response of the center in the supply of products during the state of alarm decreed by the pandemic. After an explanatory talk about how the ships are distributed, the kings have gone inside some of them to observe first-hand the sale of fresh products, both fish, fruit and other perishable foods.

06.00. WHO confirms 106,000 new cases of coronavirus, the highest number of global cases in one day since the start of the outbreak

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed 106,000 new cases of coronaviruses reported in recent hours on Wednesday , the highest number since the start of the outbreak, so it considered that "we still have much to do and a long way to go "

This was stated by the WHO Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a press conference in which he added that two thirds of these new cases belong to only four countries -USA, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Brazil- and He considered that the "good news" is that it has been "incredible" to see how some countries such as the Republic of Korea have been able to draw on their experience with the MERS to carry out a strategy to "isolate, treat and track each contact. " "This was essential in the Republic of Korea in order to reduce this first wave and identify new cases and outbreaks," he added.

However, he expressed his "concern" at the increasing numbers of infections in low and middle income countries and stressed the importance of "fighting" the pandemic and "saving lives" and, at the same time, "maintaining and protecting livelihoods vital. "

05.57. Masks are already required

Wearing masks is already mandatory in public spaces, whether outdoors or closed, as long as a social distance of two meters cannot be maintained, according to the order of the Ministry of Health that comes into force this Thursday, and that if it is not complied with can lead to a penalty .

The masks will be compulsory for people over six years of age on public roads and in closed spaces when it is not possible to maintain a distance of two meters, although this measure will not be required for people whose use is contraindicated for health reasons, nor for those who go outside. running or cycling. Nor will it be required in activities incompatible with its use, such as the intake of food and beverages, and in circumstances in which there is a cause of force majeure or a situation of need.

05.56. New coronavirus positives drop in China to two in last day

New positives for the coronavirus in China have fallen to two, compared to 5 the day before, the National Health Commission has reported. One of the cases was detected in a traveler from abroad ("imported" case) in the southeast province of Guangzhou, while the other contagion, by local transmission, was diagnosed in the eastern city of Shanghai. In this way, the Asian country prolongs the streak of new daily positives below the ten that began on the 11th.

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