The region of Catalonia has ordered this Saturday, July 4, the confinement of an area comprising some 200,000 inhabitants, around Lerida in the northeast of Spain, due to the multiplication of cases of contagion of the new coronavirus.
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" We have decided to confine the area of Segria (around the city of Lerida), on the basis of data which confirms a very significant growth in the number of contagions of Covid-19 ", declared to the press the president of the region , the independentist Quim Torra. He announced that this containment would begin at noon, restricting entry and exit from this area.
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The Health Advisor of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Alba Verges, already feared in June a return of the virus in the region, young people being a vector that worries him particularly. The latter had mentioned, during an interview, the measures that would be taken " perhaps even before the fall " if, as experts predict, a" Second wave of massive contagions " was to intervene , reports the Spanish daily La Vanguardia . The Catalan counselor did not plan to reconfigure the entire population but the most vulnerable, leaving the schools open. Today, 56% of the more than 10,000 Catalan Internet users who voted on the La Vanguardia site believe in a new containment this fall.