Spain's regions urge government to impose state of emergency to allow curfews

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Spanish regions are urging the central government to take measures that would give them legal backing to impose curfews as the country battles a resurgent coronavirus epidemic.

FILE PHOTO: Ambuiberica medical staff members lift a suspected coronavirus disease patient into an ambulance, in the Basque port town of Bermeo, Spain August 18, 2020. Picture taken August 18, 2020. REUTERS/Vincent West

Regions expect the government to call an extraordinary Council of Ministers on Sunday to approve the measure, Spanish media including El Pais reported. Spain has recorded the highest number of COVID-19 infections in Western Europe. Total cases rose to 1,046,132 on Friday, while the death toll is nearing 38,000.

“We need a decentralised state of emergency in which the Catalan government maintains all management capacity,” deputy Catalan leader Pere Aragones told a press conference.Some regions are considering imposing curfews by alternative means, such as going through regional courts, if the central government does not act.

 

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IT IS A WAR CRIME! LIKE HITLER LEADING THE JEWS INTO THE GAS CHAMBERS! TRUMP LEADS THEM INTO THE VIRUS CHAMBERS, AND THEY ARE THE IGNORANT MASSES WHO ARE STUPID TO FOLLOW!!!! VIRUS IS THE WEAPON USED BY TRUMP!

Do curfews have a proven reduction in the spread of the virus? Wouldn't you want to loosen closing times and spread people temporally over the whole day for the things they do?

Lol this nonsense again

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