Police officers play music and sing to residents confined to their homes under a nationwide lockdown amid the coronavirus outbreak
SHOWS: ALGAIDA, MALLORCA, SPAIN (MARCH 21, 2020) (ORIGINALLY SHOT IN PORTRAIT) (HEIDI FRIEDENBERGER - MUST ON SCREEN COURTESY HEIDI FRIEDENBERGER) 1.
POLICE OFFICER PLAYING GUITAR AND SINGING CHILDREN'S SONG TO RESIDENTS IN THEIR HOMES DURING LOCKDOWN PERIOD/ RESIDENTS SEEN IN DOORWAYS AND WINDOWS CLAPPING AND SINGING ALONG/ OFFICERS GETTING BACK INTO POLICE CAR STORY: Police officers were seen playing music and singing to residents confined to their homes on the Spanish island of Mallorca on Saturday (March 21) on day eight of a nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The Spanish government sought to extend until April 11 a state of emergency that it has imposed to try to control Europe's second-worst outbreak of coronavirus while some regions on Sunday (March 22) asked for harsher confinement measures to combat the pandemic.
Spain's death toll jumped to over 1,700, with more than 28,000 cases of infection.
A resident in the town of Algaida in Mallorca, Heidi Friedenberger, filmed two Spanish police officers, one with a guitar, singing a children's song to people standing in the doorways of their homes and watching from their windows.
The sight of the police serenading from ground level, which went viral in Spain and beyond, provides a mirror image of the balcony concerts that have sprung up across Italian and Spanish cities since both countries imposed restrictions on freedom of movement that keep their citizens cooped up inside.
With just 400 confirmed cases of coronavirus as of Monday, the Balearic Islands are one of Spain's least affected regions.
However, the crackdown on international travel and widespread flight cancellations will weigh heavily on their tourism-dependent economy.
As the song draws to a closing crescendo, the singer thanks his audience and leaves them with a final message of encouragement: "Stay strong." (Production: Matthew Stock, Lucy Marks, Oleksandr Ieltsov)
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