Spain to extend lockdown until April 25: PM
Caption: Mourners stand within a distance from each other as a priest prays over the coffin of a COVID-19 coronavirus victim inside a hearse at a cemetery in Madrid. AFP
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Saturday the extension of the country's lockdown until April 25 in order to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
"The cabinet on Tuesday will again ask for authorisation from parliament to extend for a second time the state of alert until Saturday April 25 at midnight,' Sanchez said in a televised speech.