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Madrid will reopen some of its biggest and most famous parks if the region is allowed to enter the second phase of lockdown de-escalation next week, the city’s mayor has said, writes Sam Jones, the Guardian’s Madrid correspondent.
At the moment, the capital and the surrounding area remain in phase 0, while 70% of the country has been permitted to enter the next phase.
A man from Tunisia drowned on Wednesday after jumping into the water from a Covid-19 quarantine ship in Sicily, writes Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo.
The 28-year-old threw himself from the Moby Zaza ship, in Porto Empedocle, in the province of Agrigento, where dozens of migrants have been placed under quarantine before disembarking.
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