Tourism-dependent Spain aims to reopen borders to visitors around the end of June as its coronavirus lockdown fully unwinds, a minister said on Monday, in a much-needed boost for the ravaged travel sector.
A woman walks past graffiti depicting Pablo Picasso's Guernica, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Malaga, Spain, May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Jon Nazca
“We can’t allow foreigners to travel while the Spanish population is confined,” he told TVE broadcaster. One of the worst-hit nations with 27,650 deaths and 231,350 infections, Spain is slowly easing a strict lockdown in place since mid-March which had meant for weeks people could not even go out for exercise.Restaurants and bars were gradually reopening - even though staff knew customers would be scarce.
Unemployment rose sharply in March and April, pushing the number of people depending on unemployment benefits to a record 5.2 million.
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