Coronavirus: Spanish PM promises to ease confinement of children
The details still have to be worked out but the prime minister agrees children need to have fresh air
In a televised briefing on Saturday evening, Mr Sánchez said Spain had left behind"the most extreme moments and contained the brutal onslaught of the pandemic". However, the main lockdown measures remain in place, with adults only allowed out to visit food shops and pharmacies or work considered essential. Children have been barred from leaving their homes completely.Spain's eight million children have already spent five weeks confined to their homes and there has been growing unease at the risk to their health.
From a week on Monday, the prime minister said, children will be allowed out but he added that he had not yet decided how it would be organised and it would have to be"limited and subject to conditions to avoid contagion".
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