In Spain the Covid emergency worsens, all the details
Covid, the latest news in Spain.
The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, and the presidents of the autonomous communities will meet online today to discuss the state of emergency approved yesterday by the government of Madrid throughout the country and the criteria for the distribution of European funds from the Recovery Fund destined for Spain.
THE MEETING
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will also participate in the meeting. The first part will be led by the premier, Pedro Sanchez, the president of the Commission and regional leaders, and then there will be a second session of the technical teams, to continue working on how to distribute and invest EU funds.
CURFEW
Yesterday night curfew throughout Spain except the Canary Islands, meetings with up to six people and the urgent invitation to stay home as long as possible. These are the main measures listed by Sanchez, who left the regions the possibility to tighten the curfew (from 11pm to 6am) and to close their borders.
THE RULES
The rules will remain in force for fifteen days but the intention of the Madrid government is to extend them until 9 May. A proposal, the premier said very clearly, which will be immediately brought to parliament to be discussed and voted on.
THE TARGET
The goal of the new state of emergency, the second since the start of the pandemic, is to bring the number of infections from 400 for every 100,000 inhabitants to 25.
THE WORDS OF SANCHEZ
"We already know what to do" against the coronavirus: "Stay at home as much as possible", insisted Sanchez, who said he felt "empathy" towards the youngest but "the longer we stay at home the more we will be protected".
WHO NUMBERS
Meanwhile, the alarm comes from the WHO that for the third consecutive day in the world the record of new infections of Covid-19 has been broken: 465.319 in the last 24 hours, more than the 449.720 on Friday and 437.247 on Thursday. Almost half of the new cases were registered in Europe, which took the sad record of 221,898 cases in one day. In total there are 42.3 million cases of coronavirus in the world and almost 1.15 million people have died, of which 6,570 in the last 24 hours.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/in-spagna-si-aggrava-lemergenza-covid-tutti-i-dettagli/ on Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:00:14 +0000.