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Spain’s strategy in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic “gives results,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said this Sunday, when presenting his country’s vaccination plan for 2021, reports AFP.
Spain recorded just 400 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, on average, over 14 days, compared to 530 cases earlier this month, Pedro Sánchez said after a two-day G20 online summit. .
This is proof that the state of emergency declared last month, which allowed regional authorities to adopt a whole series of restrictions, is working, he said.
“The strategy works,” said the Spanish prime minister, adding that his country had managed to achieve a reduction in the number of cases without imposing a second set of restrictions, as was the case in other European countries.
Sánchez described the government’s plan to immunize “a substantial portion” of the country’s 47 million inhabitants by mid-2021. This vaccination campaign will launch in January at 13,000 points across the country.
The Spanish government declared a state of emergency at the end of October to stop the second wave of Covid-19. The measure is valid until May 9, 2021.
The government has introduced a ban on night traffic between 11pm and 6am, but regional governments will be able to regulate this time as they see fit.
The traffic ban can start at any time between 22:00 and midnight and can end between 05:00 and 07:00 in the morning.
At the same time, public meetings were limited to a maximum of six people.
Travel between regions was also prohibited.
Spain was in a state of emergency from March to June.
