In Barcelona, Catalans and tourists can continue to taste the freshness of the night.
Spanish justice on Monday rejected the Catalan regional government's request to re-establish a curfew in Barcelona and in several dozen other cities in Catalonia.
It considered the measure "even more unnecessary and disproportionate" to the extent that the epidemiological situation allows.
This decision of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) confirms the one it took on Thursday, when it limited the maintenance of the curfew between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. in only 19 of the 148 municipalities on the list submitted by the Catalan executive.
After this first refusal, which had led to the lifting of the curfew in force since mid-July in Barcelona and in a large part of this tourist region of 7.8 million inhabitants, the authorities had formulated a new request for that the measure be brought back into force in the most populous municipalities, starting with Barcelona and its metropolitan area and tourist centers such as Lloret de Mar, Salou and Cambrils.
The curfew would then have been reinstated in a total of 62 towns.
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But the new argumentation of the Catalan executive has even less convinced the justice.
"According to its own premises, the curfew would be even more unnecessary and disproportionate" for these municipalities, says the TSJC, which criticizes the Catalan government for not having presented updated data on the situation with regard to Covid-19 in its request .
An incidence rate lower than the national average
According to the latest figures from the Catalan health authority, the cumulative incidence over seven days in Barcelona has fallen to 98.66 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, which is even below the threshold set by the authorities to request the return of the cover -fire in the most populated cities (125 cases per 100,000 inhabitants).
With a cumulative incidence rate of 302 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last 14 days - the criterion for national measurement - Catalonia is now even below the Spanish average (345 according to figures published last Friday by the ministry). of Health).