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This is the consequence of a rebound in coronavirus contamination in north-eastern Spain: the region of Catalonia on Saturday afternoon ordered the reconfiguration of around 200,000 people around the city of Lerida. The regional Minister of Health, Alba Verges, clarified that the gathering of more than ten people was prohibited, and visits to retirement homes suspended. At the microphone of Europe 1, Anne-Claude Crémieux, professor of infectious diseases at the Saint-Louis hospital, says that such a situation is "worrying" in the evolution of the epidemic at European level.
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"Even countries which seemed to have mastered the situation thanks to a relatively progressive containment and deconfinement are today facing rebounds", affirms the epidemiologist, author of Governing the unpredictable, influenza pandemic, SARS, health crises ( Lavoisier editions). "It reminds us that this virus continues to circulate, that it absolutely did not stop circulating with the good weather and the summer."
"Rebound in a limited geographic area"
Only two weeks after the lifting of the general confinement that prevented the Spanish from leaving their province, this reconfiguration of 200,000 inhabitants coincides with the reopening of the borders on Saturday to nationals of 12 new countries. "When we release the pressure on the virus, we are exposed to this type of rebound over a limited geographic area. This means that we have passed beyond the control of the contamination chains. We are no longer in a cluster localized, but this is a geographic area in which the virus circulates. Indeed, this is worrying. "
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Spain is one of the countries most affected by the pandemic, with at least 28,385 deaths. However, the authorities estimate that they have succeeded in controlling the contagion after a severe confinement of more than three months. However, the country had recorded 17 deaths from the coronavirus in one day on Friday, according to the Ministry of Health, the highest daily number of deaths since June 19.