Spain’s Socialist PM Pushes For Another 2-Week Lockdown Extension As Global COVID-19 Cases Pass 6 Million: Live Updates

Spain's Socialist PM Pushes For Another 2-Week Lockdown
Extension As Global COVID-19 Cases Pass 6 Million: Live
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Spain’s Socialist PM Pushes For Another 2-Week Lockdown Extension
As Global COVID-19 Cases Pass 6 Million: Live Updates Tyler Durden
Sun, 05/31/2020 – 12:13

A day after India extended its lockdown for the fourth time,
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is asking parliament to
approve one more 15-day extension of Spain’s lockdown – which has
already been moderately eased even in some of the worst-hit areas
like Madrid – until June 21 “to finish with the pandemic once and
for all.”

Sanchez said he would ask parliament to approve a final two-week
extension to the stay at home rule. According to the proposal, a
national state of emergency wouldn’t end until June 21, at which
time citizens would be allowed to move freely. Beginning July 1,
citizens will be able to move across the country,
El Pais reports.

Spain’s death toll rose by two on Sunday to 27,127, while the
number of COVID-19 infections rose by 96 overnight to 239,429. The
country has recently been supplanted in global rankings of the
worst outbreaks by Russia and Brazil.

Spain first imposed the state of emergency on March 14, imposing
a strict lockdown where people were only allowed to leave their
homes to buy food, seek medical care or for work. In the beginning,
children were confined inside all day.


Despite opposition to the most recent lockdown extension from
conservatives and demonstrations across Spain, a deal struck by
Sanchez  with a Catalan separatist party Esquerra Republicana de
Catalunya should guarantee his minority government secures enough
support to extend the lockdown.

A recent uptick in recorded deaths was caused by a revision to
the official figures. Experts praised Spain’s government for
bringing the outbreak to heel weeks ago.

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Meanwhile, the global outbreak reached a new milestone Sunday
morning, passing 6 million cases a little over a week after passing
the 5 million mark. Out-of-control outbreaks in Brazil, Russia and
across Latin America have driven the explosion of new cases
recently.

In other news pertaining to Spain, Sanchez said he hoped Spain
would receive €140 billion ($155.37 billion) from a new EU
recovery fund. The EU is set to borrow €750 billion for the fund,
which will offer a mix of grants and loans to the bloc’s most
hard-hit economies, which include Spain and Italy, two of its
largest economies.

Meanwhile, after announcing its latest lockdown extension
yesterday, India reported more than 8,000 new coronavirus cases in
a single day, another record high, after also posting the deadliest
week of the country’s outbreak so far.

Confirmed infections have risen to 182,143, with 5,164
fatalities, including 193 deaths in the past day, according to
health officials.

Overall, more than 60% of the virus fatalities have been
reported from only two states: Maharashtra, India’s financial hub,
and Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. New
cases have largely been concentrated in six Indian states,
including Delhi, home state of the capital, New Delhi. Delhi on
Sunday reported 1,295 new cases of coronavirus, its biggest daily
jump so far, bringing the state’s total to 19,844 cases.

Russia reported 9,268 new coronavirus cases Sunday raising its
total to 405,843, surpassing 400k. 138 deaths were also recorded,
bringing the death toll to 4,693.

Following 2 recent outbreaks, China announced two new confirmed
coronavirus cases and four new asymptomatic cases that it allegedly
traced back to a chartered flight from Germany. The two confirmed
cases in Shandong province on Saturday compared with four cases the
day before, data from the country’s health authority showed.

Finally, Iran said its caseload of coronavirus infections passed
a grim milestone of 150,000, as the country struggles with what
appears to be the beginning of a second wave of infections. The
country reported 2,516 new cases on Sunday, bringing the total to
151,466.

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