Illa: "It will not be necessary to go" to home confinements

"It will not be necessary to go" to the home confinements, said the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, this Friday at noon after presenting the budgets of his department.

"The communities have taken very forceful measures that are sure to bear fruit," insisted the minister, despite the data offered daily by the autonomies, which this Thursday broke records of cases, hospitalizations and ICU admissions of the second wave, which started in late July.

In addition, Illa has affirmed that the current state of alarm does not foresee home confinement.

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The minister stressed that, with the approval in Congress of the state of alarm, "a framework of stability with very powerful measures" was achieved, such as night-time confinement and the perimeter of the entire territory that all the communities except the island communities have arranged , Galicia and Extremadura.

Only the Canary Islands have their entire territory without limitations for mobility.

In the Balearic Islands, Manacor closes, Galicia has ordered it this Friday for its largest cities, and Extremadura has decreed it in several municipalities of its two provinces.

The minister has requested time for the latest measures, such as the curfew, which has only been in force for a week, to take effect, which he has summarized in "stabilizing, bending and lowering" the case curve.

The idea is that for the virus cycle you have to wait about two weeks, which is the average time it takes to infect and give symptoms.

But, for now, the evolution of the pandemic does not seem to reflect the effect of the measures, which, as Illa has said, began on August 24 with the closure of nightlife.

That day, the average incidence rate in Spain was 166.18 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days.

Two weeks later it was at 247.66.

This Thursday it was 468.17.

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