Despite having imposed draconian coronavirus lockdown and making the use of face masks in public mandatory, Spain is once again a world hotspot for the COVID-19 pandemic.
The country has nearly 378,000 confirmed cases of the respiratory disease, the highest amount in Western Europe, and one of the fastest growth rates on the continent.
Spain has tested more than 5.3 million people, or around 11.5 percent of its population, since the start of the pandemic. Exercising outdoors was not allowed until early April and for weeks children were not allowed outside at all. Jorge Ruiz Ruiz, a sociologist at the Institute for Advanced Social Studies, a public research institute, echoes this view.
These rules, along with those limiting the size of social gatherings and requiring the use of face masks, are "extremely difficult" for youths to respect, Ruiz said.Spain's decentralised system of government which places responsibility for healthcare makes it hard to develop a common national strategy.
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