COVID-19: Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to ask for State of Alarm extension until June 24

Spain’s Prime Minister is to ask Congress to extend the country’s State of Alarm for one month more extending it until June 24 as the country fights the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping across the globe.

The current State of Alarm expires on May 24 but instead of the previous (four) two-week extensions on this occasion he will be asking Congress for a four-week extension.

Today’s figures show that Spain has had 230,698 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus since the start of the pandemic. A total of 146,446 patients have been cured but the officially reported death toll is currently at 27,563.