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It will reduce commerce, federated sports, gyms and culture to 70%, and will establish a limit of 10 people in private meetings
Catalonia returns to some of the restrictions of the hardest time of the pandemic. The Government has announced this Monday, around 8:30 p.m., the closure of nightlife, the capacity limitation in bars to 50% indoors (the terraces will continue at 100%) and a curfew from 1 to 6 in the morning. In this case, it will be applied when the cumulative incidence at seven days is above 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, something that will foreseeably happen in the next few days, since this Monday it is 456.73.
In addition, the Government has established a 10 person limit in private meetings and an rReduction of capacity to 70% in commerce, federated sports, gyms and culture, as explained by the spokesperson Patrícia Plaja. All these measures require the approval of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC), but the government expects them to take effect the night from this Thursday to Friday.
The Government also recommends 100% teleworking of officials and asks to make an effort in vaccination, since there are 160,000 doses still available.
Pandemic triggered
The worrying epidemiological situation justifies these measures. The pandemic, due to the omicron variant, continues to advance without brake and this Monday there is already 1,280 patients with covid-19 in hospitals, of which 310 they are in ucis. Salut estimates that by the end of the year there will be 500 seriously ill patients with the virus.
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The ‘Minister’ of Health, Josep Maria Argimon, Also present at this press conference, he stressed that this Monday Catalonia has registered some 6,300 infections, whereas a week ago they were half. “We have grown 100% this week. We must stop it”, justified Argimon.
In addition, he has also warned of the high transmission of the omicron variant, which is apparently milder than delta. “It is very easy to saturate our health services. And we have to preserve this too. “The ‘minister’ has called all people vaccinated with AstraZeneca to get the third dose.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com