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		</div><p>Prime Minster Pedro Sanchez has appealed for Spaniards to pull together and defeat the new coronavirus, warning: “The situation is serious.”</p>
<p>Mr Sanchez, in a televised address to the nation on Friday, acknowledged public fatigue with restrictions to contain the spread of Covid-19.</p>
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<p>But he added: “We have to step up the fight,” with more limits on people’s movement that will demand more sacrifices.</p>
<p>Spain this week became the first European country to surpass one million officially recorded Covid-19 cases.</p>
<p>Mr Sanchez admitted, though, that the true figure could be more than three million, due to gaps in testing and other reasons.</p>
<p>The current pressure on the health system, including hospitalisations, is not as acute as it was in the spring, he said.</p>
<p>Even so, he asked for the public’s cooperation, discipline and unity during the winter months which, he said “will be very hard”.</p>
<p>“We have a long road to travel,” he said, to get the pandemic under control.</p>
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<p>Political jockeying over pandemic measures, however, has muddled Spain’s strategy and made it at times difficult for the national government and the country’s 19 regional governments to coordinate measures.</p>
<p>The latest spat is over whether to introduce curfews, as other European countries have done.</p>
<p>The Spanish government is demanding cross-party agreement before possibly declaring a state of emergency amid the resurgence of the new coronavirus.</p>
<p>A state of emergency can be declared only by the national government and is a necessary first legal step for authorities to impose curfews on Covid-19 hot spots.</p>
<p>But it is also a politically sensitive move which brought criticism of the government for being heavy-handed when it was previously used to help fight the pandemic.</p>
<p>Health Minister Salvador Illa said on Friday the government is still assessing the need for night-time curfews.</p>
<p>Young people’s street parties after dark are blamed as a major source of new infections.</p>
<p>Mr Illa said night-time curfews are a “very important” step, but the government wants “very clear” political support for the measure.</p>
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<p>Regional governments, meanwhile, are imposing their own piecemeal restrictions.</p>
<p>The Madrid region on Friday banned social gatherings, except within a household, between midnight and 6am. Restaurants, cinemas, parks and student residences must also close at midnight.</p>
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