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TO Today a state of emergency will be declared throughout Spain due to the deterioration of the situation with the spread of the new coronavirus, said the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
Sánchez, who delivered a televised speech after an emergency cabinet meeting, said the measure would remain in effect until early May 2021. There will be a curfew throughout the country, except in the Canary Islands, at night from 11 a.m. 6 am.
“The situation we are going through is extreme. The reality is that Europe and Spain are flooded by a second wave of the pandemic,” Sánchez said.
On Wednesday, Spain became the first country in the European Union to cross the threshold of 1 million registered coronavirus infections. The death toll in the country is close to 35,000.
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Today the Prime Minister of Italy Giuseppe Conte ordered additional restrictions in the country to curb the spread of the new coronavirus.
From October 26 to November 24, sports pavilions, public swimming pools, game rooms, cinemas, theaters and spas close their doors in the country.
Furthermore, all catering establishments – bars, restaurants and cafes will be open until 18:00. It is also planned that four people can sit at a table, instead of six, as it was before. Exceptions will be made when visitors are family members living together. After 6 p.m., restaurants can only deliver food to households.
Conte also advised minimizing citizen movements. So far, no curfew has been introduced across the country, but it already operates in several areas, including the capital Lazio. It is forbidden to go out after 11 at night, unless it is urgent.
Measures such as wearing a mask everywhere, measuring body temperature, self-isolation in case of infection or contact with an infected person remain unchanged. For now, schools remain open, although in many upper grades, education is moving online. Distance learning has been introduced in universities.
In Italy, since the beginning of October, there have been maximum daily increases every day for those who tested positive for Covid-19. On October 23, this figure exceeded 19,000 Since the start of the pandemic, the number of people infected by the new coronavirus exceeds half a million, of which more than 250,000 have been cured and more than 37,000 have died from complications of the infection.
The National Assembly of France, the lower house of parliament, approved last night in first reading a bill to extend the state of emergency in the country due to the coronavirus until February 16. This came on another day of a new record for the number of new coronavirus cases in France in one day, Reuters reported. Confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country exceeded one million. France is only the seventh country in the world to cross this threshold and the second in the European Union after Spain.
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The bill will be voted on by the Senate on Wednesday, before it is finally approved by the National Assembly, which is expected early next month. The state of emergency in France was restored by decree a week ago. However, for the measure to last for more than a month, it must be protected by law, says AFP.
The project provides opportunities to extend the restrictions until April 1.
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