The nationwide lockdown requires all residents in Spain to stay at home unless purchasing food, going to work with no option, or seeking health care.
Other measures include mobilizing the Spanish military to assure food and medical supplies, closing schools, restaurants and bars on a nationwide level, promoting work from home and reducing the number of inter-city trains and buses.
"We are going to give a united answer with the Government of Spain leading the rest of the Administrations to give a united solution," said Sanchez.
"The measures we are going to adopt are drastic and will have consequences," the prime minister said, adding that they would be "added to others we will develop in the coming days and weeks and those which are already activated."
In France, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced that starting from Saturday midnight, all cafes, restaurants, cinemas, discotheques as well as non-essential shops in France will be closed until further notice. Public transport will be maintained but limited.
Philippe reiterated his call on the French people to limit trips as much as possible. "Facing a virus which is rapidly spreading, we decided to step up measures which hit social life," he said.
Starting on Saturday, France entered "stage 3" of its epidemic response plan, which means it is now at highest epidemic alert at national level, Salomon said.
Under France's epidemic response plan adopted in 2011, the authorities' objective in stage 3 moves from "slowing down the spread" to "attenuating the effects of the epidemic wave".
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