Spain overtook China in the number of those infected with coronavirus on Monday, as the government tightened restrictions on a population entering ...
Still, the daily infection increase has slowed since the introduction of lockdown measures, falling to 12 per cent on average in the past five days from around 20 per cent in the preceding 10 days, said health emergency spokeswoman Maria Jose Sierra, brought in to substitute for her predecessor who has tested positive for the virus.
The left-wing government must tread a fine line between slowing the spread of a disease that has overwhelmed the health service and preserving employment in a country with the second-highest jobless rate in Europe.The government gave businesses an extra 24 hours to wind down operations, with full closure of non-essential activity to start on Tuesday.
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