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Pharmaceutical Moderna reported Monday that its studies show that its vaccine also protects against the British and South African variants of the coronavirus. Despite these data, Moderna has said that it will work to develop an additional dose that increases protection against these coronavirus mutations. In Spain, the autonomous communities increase restrictions. The president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, announced this Monday the closure of the hotel industry, the isolation of all municipalities in the community and the limitation of meetings to cohabitants in the next three weeks, among other measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Núñez Feijóo has asked the Galicians "self-confinement" starting at 8:00 p.m. Castilla y León has extended the closure of the interior of the hotel industry and shopping centers until February 9 and Murcia has limited the meetings to two people who do not live together and has brought the closure of non-essential activities in eight municipalities to 6:00 p.m. The president of China, Xi Jinping, has asked this Monday at the Davos Forum "to increase collaboration to manufacture and distribute the vaccine so that it is accessible to all countries." . The European Union has recommended this Monday to isolate all areas with more than 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Most of the autonomous communities, except the Canary Islands, Asturias, Cantabria and Navarra exceed it. The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, will resign tomorrow Tuesday from his position to focus on the candidacy for the presidency of the Generalitat.