Per Spanish outlet 20 Minutos, the Spanish Sports Council, Consejo Superior de Deportes (CSD), has agreed that they will rely on the decision reached by the nation’s Health Ministry in terms of when athletes will be allowed to return to practice.
Spain’s Sports Council will elaborate on a plan which will then be overseen by the nation’s health ministry, the report says.
The institution chaired by Irene Lozano has pledged before representatives of the various entities, federations and club teams “to propose a sanitary protocol ensuring athletes’ return to training that would then have to be approved by the Spanish Health Ministry.”
Earlier this week, Spanish Sports Council president Irene Lozano sat down with the presidents for the different Spanish sports federations in order to assess the impact that the health crisis caused by COVID-19 has had in the world of sports.
Spain has been on national lockdown since March 15 and is planning to remain as such until April 29, per Spanish outlet El País.
On Apr. 13, Spain began lifting the national lockdown as the number of new cases is decreasing. Some non-essential services have started coming back to life as the nation neared the one-month-mark since the lockdown order became effective.
The list of services allowed to resume their activity includes health, security and telecommunication services; construction services; cleaning, surveillance, and maintenance services; public transport; and the judiciary.
Restaurants, gymnasiums, training centers, and leisure services, however, are not allowed to reopen to the public as of yet. Some Spanish elite sports teams, such as Real Sociedad (soccer), attempted to resume their training, but Spanish Sports Secretary Irene Lozano intervened in order to prevent that from happening.
During these past few days, the nation has seen a decrease in the number of fatalities, reaching its lowest daily death toll since March 26, according to El País.
According to the website worldometers.info, the nation stands second in terms of total cases associated with COVID-19 as they have reported a total of 195,944 infections and 20,453 deaths.