Every 15 days, according to the Government, the impacts of the measures on the evolution of the pandemic will be assessed, "taking into account the permanent updating of data and the assessment of the situation by the health authorities".

These are the general rules and the schedule for lifting containment measures:

General Rules

- Mandatory confinement for sick people and active surveillance.

- General duty of home care (regardless of age or whether a person has risk factors).

- Mandatory use of masks in public transport (users and workers), in public attendance services, in schools (employees, teachers and students, except children up to the age of six) and in commercial and service establishments open to the public.

- Maximum capacity of five people per 100m2 in closed spaces.

- Funerals: family members are allowed.

- Hand hygiene and “respiratory etiquette” recommendations, as well as physical distance, are maintained.

- Religious ceremonies: community celebrations according to rules to be defined between the DGS and religious denominations.

From 4 May

- Work: mandatory teleworking regime, whenever functions allow.

- Public transport: buses with driver's cab and disinfectant gel dispensers (maximum 2/3 capacity and mandatory use of a mask, fines will be imposed for lack of use of masks).

- Public services: opening of decentralized customer service counters, such as tax offices and conservatories (mandatory use of a mask and attendance by appointment).

- Local commerce: opening of stores with open doors to the street up to 200m2, bookstores and car trade, regardless of the area (mandatory use of a mask, operation from 10:00 am and capacity of five people per 100m2), hairdressers, manicurists and similar (by appointment and specific conditions).

- Culture: opening of libraries and archives (with reduced capacity and physical distance).

- Possibility to practice individual sports in the open air (without using changing rooms or swimming pools).

- Some accesses to beaches can open for the practice of nautical sports activities.

From 18 May

- Schools and social facilities: reopening of schools for the 11th and 12th years (with the use of a mandatory mask), from 10am to 5pm, from day-care centres (support to the family will be maintained until 1 June for “Families gain confidence”) and social facilities in the area of ??disability.

- Commerce: reopening of stores with an open door to the street up to 400m2 (mandatory use of mask, operation from 10am and capacity of five people per 100m2).

- Reopening of restaurants, cafes and the like (50 percent capacity and open until 11pm).

- Opening of museums, monuments and palaces, art galleries and the like (reduced capacity and physical distance).

From 30/31 May

- Restart of religious ceremonies, with rules to be defined between the Directorate-General for Health and religious denominations.

- Resumption of official football competitions.

From 1 June

- Work: partial teleworking, with outdated schedules or mirror teams.

- Reopening of Citizen Stores (mandatory use of mask and attendance by appointment).

- Opening of stores with an area greater than 400 m2 or inserted in shopping centres (mandatory use of a mask and opening hours from 10am).

- Reopening of day-care centres, pre-school and ATL.

- Reopening of cinemas, theatres, auditoriums and concert halls (with marked seats, reduced capacity and physical distance).