China News Service, June 15th. According to foreign media reports, on the 14th local time, Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez announced that as the epidemic situation gradually improved, he will resume free travel with most EU member states from the 21st. China’s land border will remain closed until July 1.
On May 25th local time, the people played and leisured on the reopened beach of Gran Canaria, Spain. According to reports, as the epidemic eased, Spain gradually eased restrictions, and some provinces relaxed some restrictions on the second phase of the closure.
Sanchez said that the Spanish government originally planned to completely restart travel with EU countries on July 1, but later decided to "release the border check on (almost) all member states on June 21", with the exception of Portugal. In addition, from the 21st, Spain will lift the state of emergency that began in mid-March.
As of now, more than 240,000 people in Spain have been infected with the new coronavirus and more than 27,000 have died. From May, Spain began to gradually relax epidemic prevention restrictions. Before June 15, more than 70% of Spain's 47 million people will enter the final stage of relaxing the epidemic prevention blockade.
Earlier, the European Commission had recommended that 27 member states fully open their borders to each other as of June 15. Many countries have this plan. Among them, Italy has reopened the border on the 3rd, completely lifting the ban on passengers from Europe.
However, although the Spanish government has declared the epidemic under control, Sanchez hinted that he was worried that opening the border would trigger a new wave of the epidemic. He said: "Now is the critical moment, but we are ready."
Sanchez also said that passengers who entered Spain after May 15 for quarantine inspection will also end on June 21.