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Felipe VI takes the floor. The King will deliver a message to the nation this Wednesday at 9:00 pm in the context of the crisis caused by the expansion of the coronavirus in Spain. He will do so after meeting at 17:00 in the Zarzuela Palace with Pedro Sánchez and the Coronavirus Management Technical Committee, which is made up of the Ministers of Health, Defense, Interior and Transportation, Mobility and Urban Agenda.

His intervention occurs only days after the King decided to sever ties with his father, Don Juan Carlos, due to his ties to off shore foundations, however, the Monarch's speech will be focused on the situation that Spain is going through due to coronavirus.

This is an extraordinary intervention, as occurred in its message of October 3, 2017, two days after the illegal referendum held in Catalonia , due to the impact that Covid-19 is having on Spanish society.

The Royal Family itself has been surrounded by the coronavirus. A student at the school his daughters go to tested positive. And the Kings were forced to undergo tests to find out if they were infected after the Queen coincided in an act with the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, who tested positive for coronavirus. The tests carried out on the Kings were negative.

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Until now, the King's only mention of the coronavirus occurred in early February, during the reception of the diplomatic corps accredited in Spain, which at that time was focused on China. "I want to convey to the friendly people of China , on behalf of the Government of Spain and the Spanish people, as well as my own and that of the Queen, our most sincere expression of solidarity and support in these especially difficult times of a health emergency," were the words of the Monarch.

According to the head of state then, Spain valued "very positively the very important efforts and measures put in place by the Chinese government to achieve effective management of the crisis, which affects us all." When even then the magnitude of the crisis that the coronavirus would provoke in Spain was not known, Felipe VI reiterated the country's willingness to collaborate with the Chinese authorities to "help contain and overcome" the effects of the virus.

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