Tantrums Over? Spain to Let Children Out, Aims for May Lockdown Ease

Tantrums Over? Spain to Let Children Out, Aims for May Lockdown Ease
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez delivers a speech during a session at the Lower Chamber of the Spanish Parliament in Madrid on April 22, 2020. J. J. Guillen/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
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Relieved Spanish parents welcomed on April 22 a decision allowing children out on short walks for the first time in more than a month as the government contemplated a broader easing of one of the world’s strictest CCP virus lockdowns by late May.

With the world’s second most infections at 208,389, and Europe’s second highest death toll of 21,717, Spain’s tough restrictions have included a controversial ban on children leaving their homes since mid-March.