Sanchez said his government is using the state of emergency to impose a national curfew from 11 p. m. 6 a. m. , in the Canary Islands.
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Spain’s 19 regional leaders will have the strength to set other curfew schedules as long as they are stricter, close regional borders and restrict meetings to six other people who do not live together, the prime minister said.
“What happens is that Europe and Spain are in a time of pandemic wave,” Sanchez said after setting up his firm.
The leader added that this week he would ask Parliament to enlarge the state of emergency for six months, until May.
Sanchez’s government said Saturday night that most of Spain’s regional leaders had agreed to a new state of emergency and that Sunday’s assembly complied with the terms.
The state of emergency grants ordinary powers to the national government, adding the option to temporarily restrict the basic freedoms guaranteed by the Spanish Constitution, such as the right to freedom of movement.
The Spanish government has already declared two states of emergency for the pandemic: the first was declared in March to impose strict housing containment across the country, close outlets and recruit the personal sector for the national fight for public health. govern the contagion rate and save hospitals from collapse.
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The moment came into force for two weeks in Madrid to force the capital’s reluctant regional leaders to impose limits on citizens to curb an epidemic in which new contagions were developing exponentially, which lasted until Saturday.
Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa said his company and regional fitness officials were reading how to enforce night curfews, such as nine o’clock at night, those already in France’s major cities.
The state of emergency would make it less difficult for the government to take swift action, avoiding the need for maximum restrictions to be approved by a judge. Some judges have rejected efforts to restrict in some areas, causing confusion among the population.
Government officials of all grades were reluctant to impose the closure of the entire house and the closure of the industry, given the weakened state of the Spanish economy, which sank into recession and has noticed that their unemployment rates soared in recent months.
Spain this week the first European country to exceed one million officially registered instances of COVID-19, but Sanchez admitted in a national televised confrontation on Friday that the actual figure can be only more than 3 million, due to gaps in testing and other factors. .
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Spain reported nearly 20,000 new cases and 231 more deaths on Friday, bringing the number of pandemic deaths to 34,752.