Catalonia orders lockdown in eight municipalities

(ANSA) - ROME, JULY 12 - The government of Catalonia has ordered total confinement in the city of Lleida, which has almost half a million inhabitants, and in seven other municipalities of the Segrià area, due to an uncontrolled hotbed of coronavirus. The population will have to stay home except to go to work or other necessary travel. LaVanguardia reports it. Catalonia has recorded 816 more infections than yesterday.
   In hospitals in the province of Lleida they already have more than a hundred hospitalized patients for Covid-19, reports the Department of Health.
   The new cases in the Barcelona area, El Pais reports, have multiplied by four in the last 12 days. (HANDLE).