Spaniards to stroll out of lockdown as temporary hospital, symbol of pandemic battle, closes

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Spain closed a giant temporary hospital in Madrid that had become a symbol of its fight against the coronavirus pandemic on Friday and people ...

Last patients Gloria, Maria and Patrocina wearing protective face masks react after being discharged from a temporary hospital set up at IFEMA fairgrounds, before it's closure, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Madrid, Spain May 1, 2020.

However, the pandemic's decline in Spain has drastically reduced the number of people admitted to hospitals - 732 new patients, according to the latest data - and authorities on Friday closed down the temporary facility set up at Madrid's Ifema exhibition centre. Another patient leaving the centre in a wheelchair was applauded by health personnel while a singer sang the Nessun Dorma aria from the opera Turandot.

Adapting to the restrictions, the unions called for virtual rallies on social media, demanding labour rights as potentially the worst economic crisis in Spanish history and a huge surge of unemployment loomed.

 

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