March 09, 2020
MADRID (AP) — Spain's health minister on Monday announced a sharp spike in coronavirus cases in and around the Spanish capital, Madrid, and said all schools in the region, including kindergartens and universities, will close for two weeks from Wednesday.
Giving the second update of the day, Salvador Illa announced 1,204 confirmed cases, with 28 deaths and 74 people in intensive care — total cases up more than 200 since lunchtime. Those cases, he said, "imply a change for the worse of the disease in Spain".
National broadcaster TVE said the measure in Madrid would affect some 1.2 million students. In addition to closing schools, the minister announced a series of recommendations, including for companies to establish reduced working hours or considering asking their employees to work from home, as well as asking citizens to reduce travel if possible.
He said that the Europa League soccer match between Roma and Sevilla will be held behind closed doors on Thursday in the southern city of Seville. Illa also said that further measures would be announced on Tuesday.
Madrid has registered more than half of the cases of the new virus in the country, with much of the contagion linked to nursing homes and health workers. Earlier on Monday, authorities in northern Spain’s Basque Country also announced the closure of educational centers around the regional capital, Vitoria, where the second-worst cluster has been identified.
The health minister said that Spain is moving from a "containment" scenario to one of "reinforced containment," with the region of Madrid and the cities of Vitoria and Labastida, in the Basque Country, considered as areas of “high rate of spread.”
MADRID (AP) — Spain's health minister on Monday announced a sharp spike in coronavirus cases in and around the Spanish capital, Madrid, and said all schools in the region, including kindergartens and universities, will close for two weeks from Wednesday.
Giving the second update of the day, Salvador Illa announced 1,204 confirmed cases, with 28 deaths and 74 people in intensive care — total cases up more than 200 since lunchtime. Those cases, he said, "imply a change for the worse of the disease in Spain".
National broadcaster TVE said the measure in Madrid would affect some 1.2 million students. In addition to closing schools, the minister announced a series of recommendations, including for companies to establish reduced working hours or considering asking their employees to work from home, as well as asking citizens to reduce travel if possible.
He said that the Europa League soccer match between Roma and Sevilla will be held behind closed doors on Thursday in the southern city of Seville. Illa also said that further measures would be announced on Tuesday.
Madrid has registered more than half of the cases of the new virus in the country, with much of the contagion linked to nursing homes and health workers. Earlier on Monday, authorities in northern Spain’s Basque Country also announced the closure of educational centers around the regional capital, Vitoria, where the second-worst cluster has been identified.
The health minister said that Spain is moving from a "containment" scenario to one of "reinforced containment," with the region of Madrid and the cities of Vitoria and Labastida, in the Basque Country, considered as areas of “high rate of spread.”
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