MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez stated on Saturday he would ask parliament to extend lockdown measures by 15 days till April 26, as the rate of brand-new coronavirus infections and deaths slowed once again in among the world’s worst-hit nations.
Municipal police officers using face masks inspect an automobile on Gran Via street during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) break out in Madrid, Spain, April 4,2020 REUTERS/Susana Vera
In a telecasted address to the country, Sanchez said the present lockdown was beginning to reveal results, but he alerted that Saturday’s extension of the country’s state of emergency situation would not be the last.
” We are at the start of the decline in the epidemic. We are more powerful than we believe but we have to sustain. With sacrifice, resistance and the spirit of success,” he said, adding that some financial constraints would be raised after Easter.
” We are not going to extend the dead stop of financial activity,” he stated. Shops, bars and restaurants will, nevertheless, remain closed.
Sanchez likewise repeated his support for the launch of collectively