09:05 MASKS | The professor in Health Education and doctor, Jesús Sánchez Martos, advocates that the masks are financed by the Government. The last Thursday the Council of Ministers approved the mandatory use of masks in closed spaces and on public roads.
08:57 NEW STANDARDS | The Government has lifted the suspension of activities related to works of intervention in buildings where there is risk of contagion by covid-19 for people, with effects from this Monday.
08:50 PENITENTIARY INSTITUTIONS | The main civil service union has grown weary of Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska’s breaches and has denounced the Interior Agency in charge of Penitentiary Institutions for exposing them to the Labor Inspectorate. prison officials contagious. The union has also resorted to de-escalation planning and is studying legal actions to protect the occupational health of prison staff.
08:42 PHASE 2 | The territories that pass to phase 2 of the de-escalation will be able to open the pools with a capacity of 30%, as well as the transit, permanence and bathing on the beaches.
08:35 PACTOS DE LA MONCLOA | It was April 4. That day, the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, proposed to recover the consensus of ‘The Pacts of La Moncloa’ that facilitated the Spanish transition to deal with the coronavirus crisis. Few days before, an overwhelming majority of the Congress of Deputies gave him support to approve the extension of the alarm state. An unpublished image, that of the entire parliamentary arch practically in green, in the most fragmented and stressed legislature.
08:27 EDUCATION | The territories that pass today to phase 2 of the de-escalation, and that cover 47% of the Spanish population (22 million inhabitants), will be able to initiate a partial opening of the educational centers, although the ‘back to school’ will not take place until September.
08:19 SÁNCHEZ FRACASA | Spain’s economic situation worsens. And exactly the same does its ability to react. The ECB is ready to help by purchasing 130,000 million euros of Spanish debt. And the EU calculates that its aid for the coronavirus should be around 2% of the national GDP – in the Spanish case, just over 20,000 million euros. The final sum is around 150,000 million. AND Spain is in 2020 with needs of financing of 310,000 million
08:11 PHASE 1 MADRID | The move from the Community of Madrid to phase one of de-climbing comes this Monday with the opening of hotel terraces with capacity up to 50%, access control in the main Metro stations and the automatic opening of large parks in the capital.
08:04 PRESS CONFERENCES | The Secretary of State for Communication (SEC) will allow the access of a twenty journalists, photojournalists and cameras to the Moncloa press room where members of the Government usually appear. As reported late Sunday, the room, which has a hundred seats, will have a third of its capacity, including the essential staff of the Secretary of State for Communication, to comply with the security and hygiene measures decreed by the coronavirus.
07:58 NEW STANDARDS | The Ministry of Health has decided to make the walks in phase 1 and phase 2 more flexible so that up to 10 people can carry them out in phase 1 and up to 15 in phase two. This flexibility also affects, therefore, minors. “Today, the rules for walks with boys and girls during phase 1 have been relaxed. Until now, they could only go out accompanied by an adult. Starting Monday they will be able to walk with two adults if they want, while maintaining security measures, “the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Alberto Garzón, tweeted.
07:51 RESIDENCES | Government gave a first order to leave the elderly infected in their dorm rooms. He did this on March 5, when there was no collapse or alarm. And then, on March 24, in the midst of the virus explosion and with the hospitals overflowing, Sanidad gave another order: not to let relatives rescue their locked and infected elders from their residences.
07:45 DESCALADA | 53% of Spaniards are starting this Monday in phase 1 of the de-escalation plan designed to recover the country’s activity due to the expansion of the coronavirus, with the incorporation into this group of the Community of Madrid, the metropolitan area of Barcelona and all the provinces throughout Castilla y León.
Good Morning. We started a new day marked by progress in de-escalation in all the autonomous communities. The majority who were already in phase 1 go on to phase 2 and Madrid, Barcelona and Castilla y León begin today the long-awaited first phase with the opening of the terraces of bars and restaurants. In addition, the territories that pass to phase 2 will be able to initiate a partial opening of the educational centers, although the ‘back to school’ will not take place until September.
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