Children below age of 14 in Spain have been granted a one hour playtime outdoor within a kilometer stretch in their various neighborhoods amidst the Country’s lockdown observation.
The new lockdown conditions allow Spain’s 6.3 million under-14s to leave their homes each day for a total of one hour between 9am and 9pm, but without going further than a kilometre.
Bicycles, skates and skateboards are allowed, but public parks remain off-limits. The lockdown’s other conditions remain in place for the moment, with the government considering loosening it further in the second half of May.
Spain has been under lockdown for about six new now since the nation’s announcement of the lockdown in the mid of March.
Psychologists have welcomed the lifting of restrictions for smaller children, saying that even one hour outside each day can provide an important boost to their state of mind.
“The change of routine, being outside and being in the sunlight – all of that is extremely important,” says Laura Piñeiro, a psychologist and the director in Madrid of the charity Asociación Bienestar Desarollo (ABD).
By: NK AB
