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The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa and the director of the Coordination Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón , met this morning in La Moncloa with the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to discuss how to deal with the hundred active outbreaks that There is throughout Spain, and above all, the worrying situation in Lleida , where a judge has rejected the tightening of confinement in the Segrià region decreed this weekend by the Generalitat of Catalonia, considering it a state competition. For its part, the Government has announced its intention to establish by decree law the confinement rejected by the judge.

Government sources have insisted that " the autonomous communities are now the ones with the leading role in controlling the epidemic ." If these instruments are not sufficient to contain an outbreak and there is a situation that affects different communities that requires coordinated action, the Ministry of Health could implement it .

Given the increase in cases registered in the last days, the Generalitat decided to extend the containment measures in Lleida and seven other municipalities in the Segrià, whose citizens would have practically returned to phase 0 as of last midnight. This hardening of confinement would mean that you can only leave the home to work, make purchases and other essential activities . Family gatherings are limited and bars and restaurants may only serve takeout or home delivery.

"What the judge says must be respected, but there have been other not so different situations in the concept of merits that have been accepted by other judges, " said those government sources, who consider that this judicial decision also represents an opportunity. to find other, easier to implement, response alternatives "even if they are not as effective as total confinement." As an example, they have mentioned measures related to the restriction of gauging or the closure of municipal facilities.

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