Spain declares national state of emergency to curb second wave of covid-19

Madrid: The Spain government on Sunday declared a national state of emergency to curb this second wave of coronavirus cases that includes an overnight curfew except the Canary Islands.

A government statement said the overnight curfew would run from 11:00 pm until 6:00 am, currently 22:00 GMT to 05:00 GMT.

The new state of emergency will last until early May next year, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said in a television speech.

Sanchez said that if conditions allowed, the measures could be lifted earlier than anticipated.

In a televised speech, Sanchez said, “The situation we are going through is extreme”.

The Prime Minister argued that the state of emergency is the most effective tool to lower the rate of infection.

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The measures were agreed earlier Sunday at a two-and-a-half-hour cabinet meeting convened following calls from Spanish regions for the power to impose curfews themselves.

Spain became the first European country to record more than a million Covid-19 positive cases, and almost 35,000 patients have died on Wednesday last.

Earlier, Spain imposed one of the toughest lockdowns early on in the pandemic and then relaxed curbs over the summer.

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