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Spanish children will be able to leave home from next April 27 . The five weeks of confinement they accumulate will be alleviated with limited exits and subject to conditions to avoid contagions. The requirements are not yet known, not even the age limit. But, it will probably be 12 years old.

As progress had been made, there will be a third extension of the state of alarm until May 9 , but with different measures for minors.

The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has announced it, on this Saturday afternoon, in an appearance that has become habitual. A weekly message to the nation in which he has not given more details about the way in which children will be able to take to the streets, in the absence of speaking tomorrow with the autonomous presidents and closing it with the experts in the coming days. In any case it seems that it will be for a limited time and with security measures.

Sánchez explained that "we have managed to contain the spread of the virus" and the "surface of the epidemic is shrinking." Thanks, he added, to the confinement "we have saved thousands of lives" and "our health system has managed to resist".

But, according to the head of the Executive, all these achievements are "insufficient" and "fragile" even to start the de-escalation and put an end to mobility restrictions more generally. "We cannot make hasty decisions," he stressed. That is why it will be throughout the month of May, when the transition process will probably come and there will be "different states of alarm", he said, referring to a gradual change in conditions.

An "asymmetric" de-escalation

In this sense, it has taken for granted that different measures will be taken depending on the territories. It will be "asymmetric", as the autonomous presidents requested, but it will not necessarily attend to the division by communities or provinces.

And if setbacks are detected in the fight against the coronavirus, "we will review all the decisions." In other words, a spike in contagion could mean going back.

Sánchez has assured that the de-escalation process will be "complex". The itinerary, he said, will be "a slow march to that new normal", alluding to the total end of the lack of confidence.

Everything will be subject to different markers of evolution of the virus. The president has defended the adoption so far of global measures throughout Spain, regardless of the volume of infections, because that has prevented further spread but considers that it is not necessary for the output to be "homogeneous". On what situation the Spanish will spend the summer has indicated that "there are answers that can not yet be given."

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