Spain imposes second local coronavirus lockdown in two days
Saudi Press Agency
Sunday 1441/11/14 - 2020/07/05
MADRID, Jul 5, 2020, SPA -- The northwestern Spanish region of Galicia imposed restrictions on about 70,000 people on Sunday following a COVID-19 outbreak, a day after Catalonia also introduced a local lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, according to Reuters.
People living in A Marina along Spain's northern coast in the province of Lugo will not be able to leave the area from midnight on Sunday until Friday, two days before regional elections in Galicia on July 12.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, speaking at a local political rally in Bilbao on Sunday, urged people not to lower their guard, but called for calm as "the early detection of these outbreaks shows the health system is much better prepared" than in March.
--SPA
21:14 LOCAL TIME 18:14 GMT
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