Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announces a four-stage plan to deescalate the lockdown
MADRID - Spain’s lockdown is making progress against the new coronavirus but a gradual easing from next week will require even more discipline, officials said on Wednesday, after the country recorded 325 deaths from the infection overnight.
The country’s overall death toll from the virus rose by 453 to 24,275, the health ministry said, adding that the additional cases were from the previous days in the region of Galicia. Children ride a bicycle and a skateboard, after restrictions were partially lifted for children, following the coronavirus disease outbreak in El Masnou, north to Barcelona, Spain, April 29, 2020. REUTERS/ Albert GeaBut Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told a news conference on Wednesday “the period of easing measures would take more discipline than lockdown” itself.
The Hotel Business Association of Madrid on Wednesday expressed its “serious concern” over the plan, as well as its “disbelief” that the government was contemplating reopening hotels “when the arrival of clients is impossible” because of closed borders and suspended flights.
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