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Covid-19. Spain: the Navarre region partially sealed off

From Thursday October 22, the Spanish region of Navarre will be partially cordoned off. The 660,000 inhabitants of this region in the northeast ofSpain and border with France will only be able to enter and leave it for “Reasons for work, health, education or care”, detailed the regional president of Navarre, Maria Chivite.

Bars and restaurants will also be closed from that date and businesses will have to lower the curtain at 9 p.m.

“We don’t want to wait until it’s too late”, justified the president of the region who recorded 945 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last 14 days, against 312 in Spain according to the report of the Ministry of Health published Monday.

A regional sanitary cordon has been unprecedented in Spain since the start of the second wave of coronavirus.

Several cities subject to partial closure

Like Navarre, the city of Burgos (north) announced Monday that its 175,000 inhabitants would be subject to partial closure overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday.

Burgos thus joins the increasingly long list of cities subject to partial closure, including the capital Madrid and eight surrounding municipalities, where four million people have seen their mobility limited since October 2 and until Friday evening.

More ” There’s no of intention to extend the state of alert (establishing this closure) in Madrid ”, said on Monday the chief epidemiologist of the Ministry of Health, Fernando Simon.

Dr Simon however reported that “This last week, the stabilization that we are observing again seems to follow a small upward trend” in Spain.

Spain remains one of the European countries most affected by Covid-19, with nearly 975,000 cases and nearly 34,000 deaths.

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