The virus is spreading among the spanish population with rhythms which are similar back to when the pandemic started
Spain is now having to face one of the worst episodes generated by the Coronavirus. Latest informations affirm that Spain has more than doubled the statistics of people affected by the sickness. Furthermore, since the confinement ended up, the cases have increased from around two hundred thousand to nearly a million cases. Last week, the average of diagnostic Covid-19 cases was 3194, according to ‘La Vanguardia’, which would mean an average of 450 cases per day, nearly the same numbers, a bit higher, than when we were locked down at home. However, society keeps on going with its life as if nothing really mattered.
Meanwhile, experts affirm that the 2030 agenda goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (SD goals), are facing a very risky situation, as they are having dispare developments. Antonio Guterres is the General Secretary of the United Nations, and according to him, SD goals will be delayed for years or even decades. He has affirmed that Covid-19 is having devastating effects on them. ‘At a moment in which we need to keep going forward, the virus is leaving countries with massive fiscal challenges, growing every single day'. He has added that if last year the world faced huge challenges, such as putting an end to the massive poverty, Coronavirus is just making it worse.
In Spain, Germán Granada, the General Director of ‘Forética’, the annual report about 2030 agenda, has transmitted the same message. ‘This situation can lead millions of people to suffer extreme hunger and poverty’. However, he has announced that some goals may not have been so affected by the pandemic, such as the environmental goals. According to him, thanks to the lock down, our emissions, our consume and our impact over different ecosystems have been reduced. Nevertheless, ‘all these have taken place by omission instead of by action, and environments have been less harmed not by a structural change on our growth model, but by a fall in our economic activity’.
Latest measures
The government is now focused on removing the coronavirus, or at least, on reducing its impact. To do so, it has taken some controversial decisions, which seem not to satisfy some of the people affected by them. Madrid, the capital city of the country, is now locked down and no one can get in or get out of it without an imperative reason. Navarra is also locked down, and the government of the Basque Country keeps on working in new measures to stop the progress of the virus. According to the latest meeting of the members of the basque government, pubs will be forced to close at twelve a.m., earlier than what the State Government enacted three months ago.
Sources:
-'La Vanguardia': Covid analysis
-'El País'
-'Europa Press'
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