Minors will be able to go out on the streets in Spain from April 27

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Saturday that he will transfer tomorrow to the regional presidents the will to extend the state of alarm for fifteen more days, until May 9 included. The head of the Executive has also announced the easing of the confinement measures for minors from 27 April, when the new extension of the emergency measures begins. Although it has not yet been specified, Sánchez has stated that it is foreseeable that the Public Health Law will be used to establish the criterion of 12 years of age as the maximum age for children who can go out on the streets, always accompanied by an adult and under protective measures.

The president also revealed, in the round of questions, that the de-escalation of the month of May "will not be homogeneous", that is to say, that each autonomous community will be able to have a different rhythm to return to the "new normality", depending on how the pandemic evolves in its territory.

New cases

The Ministry of Health has reported 565 new deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, up to a total of 20,043 (2.9% more), and 4,499 infections, making 191,726 (1.9% more) people who have been infected in our country since the beginning of the crisis.

In addition, the Health Department has reported a total of 74,662 cured people, 3,166 more (2.3%), and has noted that communities have reported 1,194 people with positive antibodies without symptoms at the time of testing, so it cannot be established "when they were infected or whether they suffered from the disease".

The sum of symptomless positives and those infected with them brings the total number of infections to 192,920.
Comparing this total sum of cases with the infections reported on Friday, we would be looking at an increase of 2.4% in infections, as explained by the director of the Centre for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simon, at the end of the daily meeting with the Technical Committee of Management of the coronavirus.

Simón stressed that more detailed information from the communities will mean that in "2 or 3 days" some data may vary, which "does not prevent a correct assessment of what is happening".

He acknowledged that the numbers of deaths remain high and "are being maintained and have stabilised", but the aim is for them to achieve the same reductions as hospitalisations and ICU admissions. In this regard, he said that the increase in hospitalization in recent days has been 2.6% and in ICU, 1.4%.

Simón highlighted the performance of "other types of analysis" that allow easier comparisons between communities and highlighted the "accumulated incidence of the last 14 days", which is equivalent to an incubation period, showing how the epidemic has evolved and indicating "a very clear decrease".

This means that "it is obvious that we are facing a phase of decline, with a control of transmission," insisted Simon, who stressed that it has gone from less than 200,000 PCR tests in the last week of March to more than 400,000 in the second week of April. This has not meant a substantial increase in the positivity of these PCR tests. It has gone from 25% three weeks ago to 8.5% the last week, which implies that the incidence of the disease is decreasing if these tests are performed with similar criteria to the previous ones, he said. However, "this is not over yet and we can not throw away the effort we have been doing," he warned. "The actions we each take have an impact on society.

By communities, Madrid continues to lead the figures of the crisis: 52,946 infected, 7,132 dead and 30,475 cured. Catalonia continues in second place, where this Saturday there are 39,943 confirmed cases, 3,879 dead and 13,275 cured.

The two Castiles also have the highest number of cases in third and fourth place: in Castilla-La Mancha there are 16,349 infected, 1,913 dead and 3,838 people cured; in Castilla y León there are 15,293 confirmed cases, 1,429 dead and 5,103 cured.

The Basque Country is the fifth community in terms of the number of infections, with 12,355, and 1,020 people have died and 6,556 have been cured.