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MADRID — Spain’s government will on Friday declare a state of emergency over the coronavirus outbreak, La Sexta television said.

The so-called “state of alert” that La Sexta said the government would announce is the first of three stages of a state of emergency.

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It lasts 15 days and would allow the government to take wide-ranging measures including confining people or ordering evacuations. (Reporting by Belen Carreno Writing by Ingrid Melander; Editing by Kevin Liffey)