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The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa , reported on Monday the meeting with the autonomous communities to deliver the draft of the early warning plan to detect outbreaks early and act quickly to stop them. "The end of the state of alarm does not mean that the pandemic has ended," said Illa, who made an appearance before the press conference with Fernando Simón, director of the Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, in which has been asked about the situation in which the Segrià region has remainedafter a judge rejected the house confinement decreed this weekend by the Generalitat of Catalonia as it was considered a state competence. The President of the Govern, Quim Torra, has assured that he would impose confinement by decree-law.

Does the Generalitat have powers to do so? "In this control scenario, the predominant role is that of the autonomous communities, and this has been done up to now in the more than one hundred outbreaks that have occurred. Fortunately, they have been controlled so far. We think that the CCAA have instruments to act , we are in permanent contact, and we know that their legal services are working, "said Illa.

Asked about the recommendation he makes to the citizens of Segrià before the contradictory indications of the last hours, he said that his recommendation is the same as for all citizens of Spain, to follow the recommendations of the health authorities: "I have seen images that do not I like them nothing, they are worrisome . In this control phase, many things can be done, we can have fun but without losing respect for the virus, "said Illa, who has refused to" enter into a legal debate "that does not correspond to her.

The mean age is 46.1 years for men and 50.5 years for women.

For his part, Fernando Simón has expressed concern that in recent weeks there have been increases in cases in 15 of the 52 Spanish provinces, "indicating that the virus is spreading throughout the territory more than the outbreaks may indicate. " "Although the data is not good, because we have community transmission and we have many cases, we are detecting many more cases than before," said Simón, who has called on young people to comply with the precautionary measures and to have fun with another way.

The cases detected are, in general, milder, but not all. "The epidemic is now different. The average age is 46.1 years for men and 50.5 years for women ." "We can have outbreaks with a major health impact," said Simon.

Asked about the statements of Miguel Sebastián in which he indicated that he should ask for forgiveness, Simón has said that "in science we are constantly rectifying" and has defended that "we have always acted in the most informed way possible, consulting the experts that we had to consult. They are very complicated decisions, with a lot of impact ... and making any of them is a very big exercise of responsibility. I have not made the decisions, I have informed and advised, "he said.

Assessment of the measures in Aragon and Lleida

The epidemiologist has indicated that Aragon is implementing many timely measures that have affected half of the region. "In Lleida too, the response has not been as expected but others are being valued."

On what the citizens of the Segrià region would advise doing, Simón recalled that "the most effective measure is confinement, which is what prevents contact at the highest level. The population of Lleida is informed of what is happening. Every citizen You have to assess whether it is worth going out or not. "

"We have 120 active outbreaks, many of them are on the verge of closing. Real outbreaks of interest are much less ."

Criticism of infections in "perfectly avoidable situations"

On the other hand, the epidemiologist has criticized the massive celebrations that have taken place in different parts of Spain in recent days for sporting victories or parties: "I really like sports, I play sports, I like to watch it and I love to celebrate it. But if Zaragoza go up to First this year, I will not join other teams, "said Fernando Simón, who insisted that we are in a different normality.

"We have outbreaks for celebrating the non-festivities of the towns, for celebrating the non-celebrations of sporting events , for situations that are perfectly avoidable," he said. In this sense, he has stated that "clubs can help" to avoid these situations.

The epidemiologist has appealed to the responsibility of the citizens and has assured that "one can have an equally good time without having to gather in large groups" and applying protective measures. "And clubs can help it."

164 positive for coronavirus in the last hours

After the notable increase in infections last week, the updated figures from the Ministry of Health published on Monday reveal a drop in the number of positive cases for coronavirus . Specifically, the report records 164 new infections , half of those on Friday (figures are not updated on weekends), when 333 were reported.

Most of the registered infections are concentrated in Catalonia , which has reported 42; community followed by Aragon, with 32; and Andalusia, with 18.

The number of deaths in the last hours follows a stable trend and three new deaths have been reported (two were counted on Friday), so that there are already 28,406 people who have lost their lives to the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. This data excludes deaths from residences and those who had symptoms compatible with Covid-19 but did not undergo a diagnostic test. With death date in the last week, the official count reports seven deaths .

Three of these seven deceased are located in Castilla y León. Andalusia communicates two; Castilla La Mancha and Madrid, one. The rest of the Communities have not registered any deaths.

Regarding hospitalizations , 146 people have been admitted in the last seven days (156 the previous day). Of these, eight patients have entered the ICU in the last week (the same as on Friday) and six in the last 24 hours. Thus, the total admissions in this hospital unit increases to 11,716.

In the European sphere , Spain remains in third position by number of infections (255,953), only behind Russia (733,699) and the United Kingdom (289,603). Italy and Turkey continue in fourth and fifth position, with 243,061 and 212,993 infections, respectively. The country with the highest number of deaths is still the United Kingdom (44,819), followed by Italy (34,954) and France (30,004).

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