Spain is set to restrict national travel and tighten curfews across the nation throughout Easter week, the nation’s Health Ministry stated on Thursday.
Easter week is a crucial national vacation in Spain not only to religious believers, however to the nation’s tourism industry.
However, Spain’s Health Ministry announced that a curfew will be imposed from 10 p.m. to 6 p.m. (2100-1700GMT) and all regional borders will stay closed within the hopes of preventing the fourth wave of contagion.
Over Christmas and New Yr, Spain was one of the few European nations to relax restrictions to facilitate celebrations.
As a consequence, the nation suffered from a devastating third wave wherein around 20,000 individuals lost their lives to COVID-19, and hospitals were pushed to their restrict.
Spain has seen contagion drop drastically – the Health Ministry reported simply over 6,000 new cases on Thursday – however, deaths still remain high as another 254 lives had been lost to the disease, bringing the nation’s whole demise toll to 70,501.
Meanwhile, the nation is promoting a coronavirus passport at the European level, with an aim to save this summer’s tourism season.
Spain’s tourism minister announced that the nation will launch its own pilot project to test out the so-called health passport.
So far, Spain has administered just over 4 million COVID-19 vaccine doses of the 5.5 million it has received.
Officials hope the vaccination campaign will accelerate rapidly once more vaccines are approved in order to boost safety and facilitate travel during the summer.
