Spain towards the proclamation of a new state of health emergency

Pedro Sanchez, Spanish Prime Minister -

It is not only in France that the second wave is painfully felt.

The Spanish government began this Sunday morning an extraordinary Council of Ministers at the end of which it plans to declare a new state of health emergency, in order to allow the establishment of a curfew in certain regions of the country to slow down the explosion of Covid-19 cases.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's office reported that the meeting began shortly after 10:00 a.m. at the Moncloa Palace, the seat of government.

In a press release published on Saturday evening, the office of the head of government announced that the purpose of this extraordinary Council of Ministers would be "to examine the terms of a new royal decree on the state of alert", corresponding exceptional regime to a state of health emergency.

Over a million cases

This will be the second state of alert of the year in Spain, after the one proclaimed in March to contain the first wave of the coronavirus.

It had lasted until June.

It had served as a legal basis for total containment of the country, one of the strictest in the world, since the Spaniards had then been prohibited from leaving their homes, except to go to refuel.

Pedro Sanchez announced on Friday that Spain would do everything to avoid a new lockdown, because of its impact on social life and its cost to the economy, and that for this, measures restricting freedom of movement were necessary.

With nearly 35,000 dead and more than a million cases, Spain is one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus.

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