A city in Catalonia has actually ended up being the very first in Spain to be called back into a draconian-style lockdown because the state of emergency situation ended in the nation.
An overall of 140,000 locals in the city of Lleida and 7 towns in the Segria area, have actually been bought to remain inside following a spike in Covid-19 cases. Residents are now just permitted to go out to purchase food and fundamentals or go to the bank.
Those whose tasks are considered ‘essential’ are permitted back to the work environment, while the remainder of the public have actually been informed they need to work from house. Officials in Lleida, which is 100 miles from Barcelona, and the surrounding locations have actually likewise prohibited conferences of more than 10 individuals.
Weddings will likewise be cancelled and dining establishments are just allowed to do house shipments. Over the past 24 hours, Catalonia has actually signed up 816 brand-new cases. The Segria area is stated to have actually represented 190 of the overall.
The lockdown comes simply days after English visitors were okayed to take a trip to Spain without needing to quarantine for 14 days upon return.
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Several of Spain’s most popular vacation locations, such as Malaga’s Costa del Sol, Mallorca, Ibiza and Catalonia – consisting of Barcelona – have actually now made the using of face masks required at almost all times in public.
The newly-imposed procedures are a near go back to the very first weeks of Spain’s stringent lockdown – among Europe’s hardest – when kids were caged in their houses for almost 2 months.
It follows authorities in your area locked down the area last weekend, prohibiting individuals from leaving or going into the location, other than for medical emergency situations, following a spike in cases.
Two days earlier, the Catalan federal government dismissed an overall lockdown and stated it thought the compulsory usage of face masks might assist fight the spread of the infection.
An authorities stated at the time that they were ‘not envisaging a total locked down’ which ‘people cannot be locked away indoors,’ however following another boost in cases authorities were required to make a U-turn on limitations.
Part of the La Marina area north of Lugo in Galicia likewise stays on lockdown, although individuals are being permitted out of their houses. They are just being stopped from going into or leaving the location, with some exceptions such as medical emergency situations.
British travelers were permitted to get in Spain for the very first time in 3 months on June 21 when the nation’s state of emergency situation ended.
On Friday, holidaymakers were informed they might easily take a trip to Spain, which has actually produced an ‘air bridge’ with England.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office likewise upgraded its travel assistance, having actually formerly cautioned versus all however necessary travel.
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