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Covid: Spain's strategy "gives results", according to the Prime Minister

2020-11-22T23:44:22.198Z


The country has only registered 400 cases of Covid per 100,000 inhabitants on average for 14 days, against 530 cases at the beginning of the month, said Pedro Sanchez.


Spain's strategy in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic "is

yielding results,

" Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Sunday, presenting his country's vaccination plan for 2021. Spain only records 400 cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants on average for 14 days, against 530 cases at the beginning of the month, argued Pedro Sanchez after a virtual two-day G20 summit.

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This is proof that the state of emergency declared last month, which allowed regional authorities to take a whole series of restrictions, is bearing fruit, he said.

"

The strategy is working

," he said, adding that Spain had managed to achieve a reduction in cases without imposing a second lockdown as has been the case in other European countries.

Pedro Sanchez unveiled the government's plan to be able to vaccinate "

a substantial part

" of the country's 47 million inhabitants by mid-2021.

This vaccination campaign is to be launched in January in 13,000 points of the country.

For example, he recalled that 14 million people had been vaccinated against influenza in 2020 against 10 million in 2019.

"

The course has been given

"

"

Our health system is able to vaccinate in a short time, it is frankly excellent and we are therefore hopeful of achieving these ambitious goals

," continued the Prime Minister.

We still have difficult months ahead of us, but the course has been set,

” he said.

Spain, where a curfew has been in force since the end of October - with the exception of the Canary Islands, in the Mediterranean - has recorded more than 42,000 deaths and 1.5 million people infected since the start of the pandemic .

Source: lefigaro

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