On Saturday evening of March 14, 2020, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez addressed the nation to announce a total lockdown effective the next day, for a duration of “15 days“. The reason to “attempt to slow the spread of the virus” of which at this time there were 6,271 confirmed cases and 189 people reported to have died from COVID-19 in a population of around 46 million citizens. [1, 2, 3]
From Sunday March 15, 2020, 46 million Spanish citizen will be in lockdown, and can only leave their homes “to buy groceries and pharmaceutical products, go to the bank or hospital, or to take care of dependents.”
Spain would be locked down for 7 weeks, before being locked down again and again.