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Spain faces a key moment in the containment of the coronavirus: the cases have drastically doubled in 24 hours, which represents a significant advance of the virus located in three parts of our country. Salvador Illa, Minister of Health, admitted yesterday in his afternoon appearance that " the epidemic has evolved worse . (...). Now we move from a situation of containment to another of reinforced containment."

In addition, he noted that, after exceeding a thousand cases (at the end of this edition they reached 1,204), the Community of Madrid and the Basque towns of Vitoria and Labastida, "are going to be called areas of significant or high community transmission ".

This shows that the rebound experienced this weekend has been the first critical turning point of the coronavirus epidemic in Spain. A week ago, the Government proposed two scenarios in which a period of five to seven days was given to see if the infections rose, remained or descended, and yet the "explosion of cases" was ruled out . "The change of scenery has taken place this Sunday afternoon," said Illa.

From the epidemiological point of view and with the sum of data from the previous days it is worth asking if it was right to let just yesterday, with only 589 positives, the population concentration in large events such as the 8M demonstration in cities like Madrid be allowed and Vitoria, where they exceeded 100,000 and 50,000 people respectively; the matches of the football league in the Wanda Metropolitano with an influx in Atlético de Madrid-Sevilla of some 68,000 fans; of basketball between the Students and Barcelona with almost 15,000 others in the Wizink Center, for example.

In the new areas with high transmission of the virus , a series of measures will be imposed to prevent them from becoming dangerous sources of risk or "aggressive containment" plans, as they are called by the World Health Organization (WHO ). In fact, yesterday Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, general director of the same, endorsed the implementation of such initiatives to curb "whatever the pandemic potential" of this virus .

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