Spain surpasses 120,000, Italy surpasses emergency declaration April 5, 5:14
The Spanish government announced today that the number of people infected with the new coronavirus has increased to 124,736, making it the first country to surpass Italy and the second largest in the world after the United States. The Prime Minister of Spain, Sanchez, has announced that the nationwide emergency declaration will be extended again by the 25th of this month, bringing measures to limit civilians' outings to a total of six weeks.
The Spanish government announced on April 4 that the number of people infected with the new coronavirus increased by 7026 from the previous day to 124,736. This makes Spain the first in terms of the number of infected people to surpass Italy and rank second only to the United States, the world's most infected.
The number of deaths increased by 809 from the previous day to 11,744, the second highest after Italy.
Spain's Prime Minister Sanchez said in a news conference yesterday that "it will take more time to stop the spread of the infection," and extended the period of the state of emergency again to extend the deadline from 11 to 25 this month. It was announced that it will be extended.
Spain has been strictly restricted from going out of Spain on the 14th of the month following the declaration of emergency unless it is necessary to buy groceries, etc. With the extension of the period, going out is restricted to a total of 6 weeks. It becomes.
On the other hand, it has been evaluated that the effect of the restriction on going out has led to the suppression of the growing number of infected people in Italy, which was the earliest in Europe.
Italy's health minister Speranza said in a TV interview on Tuesday that "the new coronavirus has no vaccine and no cure at this time. Distance between people is the only way to go." He appealed to the people to continue to stay out of the country until 13th of this month.