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Spain is placed under lockdown

15/03/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Spain is placed under lockdown

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announces emergency measures

Citizens are only supposed to leave their homes to buy food, medicine or if they have a compelling reason such as going to work.

Also in the programme: what is it like living in lockdown? And, the first ever political candidate in France with Down’s Syndrome.

A man walks his dog along an empty street in Barcelona. (CREDIT: EPA/ENRIC FONTCUBERTA)

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