Spain will start easing lockdown restrictions starting Monday, the country's Health Minister and a top aide announced Thursday.
"From Monday, around 70% of the Spanish population, or 32 million people will be in phase two. Around 30% of the population or 15 million people will be in phase one and 45,000 people will be in phase three," Spain’s Health Minister Salvador Illa said at a news conference.
At the start of this week, just over half of the population was still on the more restrictive phase one.
Parts of the regions of Castilla, Valencia, Catalonia, Murcia, Andalucia and Castilla and Leon will move to phase two, which allows meetings of up to 15 people who don't live together, some restaurant service indoors, and the opening of stores, cinemas and museums but with occupancy limits.
Four small islands in Spain's Balearic and Canary Islands with small populations and low infection risk will advance to phase three, with further restrictions on movement and gatherings eased.
"The data is good, we are in a good way, but I have to insist: it's very important to know this is a very complex phase and to maintain an attitude of individual responsibility because a mistake can put at risk everything we've done so far," Illa added.
The Madrid region, which includes Spain’s capital and surrounding cities, will remain in phase one without any changes, the health officials explained.
"All of this evolution is due to the effort made by the population and the health system to control this epidemic," said Dr. Fernando Simón, Spain’s director of the Center for Health Emergencies.
Simón also told reporters that "small re-emergences" have been identified very quickly and are being closely monitored by local authorities to "avoid a new outbreak and maintain this favorable tendency."
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