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The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has anticipated the possibility of further relaxing the confinement measures starting next week, specifically, from May 2. The new relief would give citizens the opportunity to go out for sports individually and family walks.

This measure depends on the fact that throughout the week it is verified that the departure of the children, which can be carried out from tomorrow, does not entail any spike in infections. In this sense, Sánchez has asked extreme "caution" and "responsibility" to parents so that they strictly comply with the regulations that the Ministry of Health has imposed.

The president explained that the de-escalation is expected to begin once the current extension of the state of alarm ends, that is, from May 10.

This stage of de-escalation will be "gradual" and "asymmetric", or what is the same, depending on the territories. And it will also be "coordinated", that is, "with the same rules" although the speed is different.

Sánchez has also announced that next Tuesday he will bring the de-escalation plan to the Council of Ministers and he will present it himself to all citizens, despite the fact that he said "we still have hard times" because "victory is not yet close" . The plan will last throughout the month of May and its technical requirements will be finalized on Monday after listening tomorrow to the regional presidents.

"The maxim will be one: we enter this pandemic together and we will leave together. The de-escalation has to be in a team, asymmetrically yes, but coordinated," he warned. "We all have to go hand in hand, leaning on the shoulder, elbow to elbow."

Sánchez has insisted that "some of us are the insurance of others" so there is no need to make this new stage "a race in which if someone falls, they drag the rest." And as he has been doing in recent days, he has called for unity.

In an attempt to anticipate the "centralization" reproaches leveled at him from various autonomous regions, mainly Catalonia and the Basque Country, the President has denied the majority and has insisted that the Government's mission is to "pilot", "coordinate" and direct the "scorecard" to strengthen the capacities of the health system, primary care, the number of ICU beds, epidemiological surveillance, the execution of PCR, the identification of infections and collective protection measures.

Most of the Autonomous Communities have already drawn up their own plans for lack of confidence, but the President has already warned them that coordination and gradualness will be in the hands of the Government, which will decide based on technical and health parameters and not according to a schedule of pre-established dates. . The philosophy is "not to jeopardize what was previously achieved".

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