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Date Published: 07/04/2021
ARCHIVED - State of alarm will not be extended in Spain after 9 May says national president
The Spanish government is hopeful that the extraordinary measure will no longer be necessary, however, there is some concern that the same situation may occur as last summer when the first state of alarm was lifted and the country was plunged into the second wave of coronavirus.
The president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, has announced that he does not intend to extend the current state of alarm, which came into force on 25 October 2020 and ends on 9 May. There had been some uncertainty as to whether Sr. Sánchez would request an extension to the exceptional measure due to the current situation regarding the coronavirus pandemic and the fact that Spain is on the brink of a fourth wave, but that will not be the case, the president said.
With the decision, the government leader will manage to avoid, in the midst of Madrid’s regional election campaign, a repeat of the political rows regarding extensions that became the norm last year towards the end of each state of alarm and extension.
Once the state of alarm ends, restrictions such as nighttime curfews, restrictions on movement and limitations on social gatherings will depend on the regional authorities and the health ministry, rather than the national government, which has hopes that by that point vaccinations will have progressed considerably.
The president said on Tuesday that the number of patients inoculated will grow exponentially from now on and should reach 70 per cent of the population by August. He also reported that the FMI believes that the Spanish economy will grow 6.4 per cent in 2021 and said that Spain will be one of the first EU countries to present its entire project regarding the use of the recovery fund to the EC.
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