BREAKING: Spain confirms 1,500 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours
Spain has confirmed more than 1,500 new cases of coronavirus between Friday and Saturday.The country was expected to declare a state of emergency on Saturday to try to mobilise resources to combat the virus, which has so far killed 136 people in Spain.Sorry, the video was not found
Today, airline Jet2 announced it was cancelling all flights to the mainland as well as the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is set to declare a state of emergency It is thought that the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, is on the verge of closing the country’s airspace.
The measure would create a legal framework for the government to limit peoples’ movements nationwide.The Foreign and Commonwealth Office updated its travel advice for Spain on Friday, advising against all but essential travel to the regions that the Spanish Ministry of Health has designated as areas of community transmission: Madrid and La Rioja, and the municipalities of La Bastida and Vitoria and Miranda de Ebro .
Europe has now been declared the epicentre of the pandemic with countries imposing a cascade of restrictions in efforts to prevent their health systems from collapsing.
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