"The containment will not be lifted until we are prepared for it because we will not run any risk," assured before the deputies, the head of government, the socialist Pedro Sanchez. He plans to gradually alleviate from mid-May the strict confinement imposed since March 14 across the country, where a slight rebound in the number of daily coronavirus deaths was recorded on Wednesday.
The deputies were to vote in the evening to extend the state of alert and confinement until May 9 inclusive. "De-escalation (in containment measures) will be slow and gradual precisely because it must be safe," he insisted. He planned it for the "second half of May".
The third most bereaved country in the world behind the United States and Italy, Spain recorded Wednesday 435 deaths from the new coronavirus in 24 hours, a toll which increased slightly for the second consecutive day and which brings the total of deaths at 21,717, according to the Ministry of Health.
Less than 400 dead Monday
430 deaths were reported on Tuesday and 399 on Monday, the lowest daily toll for four weeks. The country has a total of more than 208,000 confirmed cases. Health officials say the peak of the epidemic was reached earlier this month, when the coronavirus killed up to 950 people on April 2.
As a sign of improvement, hospitals are no longer saturated and the Madrid region closed on Wednesday the morgue installed in the skating rink of a Madrid shopping center, where more than a thousand corpses had been stored.
Seat plans resumption at end of month
In addition, some companies plan to resume their activity, such as the car manufacturer Seat, which announced that it would test 15,000 employees to resume production on April 27, stopped since mid-March.
The Ministry of Health has confirmed that a seroprevalence study will be launched very soon: tests will be carried out on some 60,000 people across the country in order to "obtain an estimate of the percentage of the Spanish population having developed antibodies to the new coronavirus ”, which will be crucial for making decisions in the following weeks.
Pedro Sanchez confirmed that the government would allow the children to go outside for air starting on Sunday, for the first time since mid-March. At first, on Tuesday, the government only authorized them to go out with one of their parents and only to go to the supermarket, the pharmacy or the bank.
Fierce opposition
Faced with an avalanche of criticism from all sides, he finally authorized short walks for children on Tuesday evening, as in other European countries.
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During a very tense sitting in the Chamber of Deputies, the leader of the People's Party (PP, right), Pablo Casado, launched a salvo of reproaches to the government of the socialist, whom he accused of "incompetence" and of '' Improvisation ', by launching:' Stop making fun of us, there are 22,000 dead who can no longer admit jokes'.
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