FILE PHOTO: A worker walks along an empty street during the first day of the nighttime curfew set as part of a state of emergency in an effort to control the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in downtown Ronda, southern Spain, late October 25, 2020. REUTERS/Jon Nazca
MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government faced a backlash on Monday over its plans to put one of Europe's worst COVID-19 hotspots under a six-month state of emergency.
Opposition parties said six months was too long, epidemiologists said this may be too little too late, and some citizens balked at nightly curfews. [nL1N2HG0CO]
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