Given the advance of the pandemic, the Government will prohibit smoking on the street in all of Spain when the safety distance of two meters between people cannot be respected and will close nightlife venues. This was announced this morning by the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, after the celebration of the extraordinary interterritorial Council that has convened this Friday to agree with the autonomous communities new measures to stop the large increase in infections and hospitalizations that are being registered in the last weeks. It is a set of measures, 11 in total and three recommendations, which have been taken unanimously, according to Illa.

The hours of all restaurants and premises are modified : the closing will be at 1 at night and customers will not be able to accept after 12 at night. Illa recalled that the bottle is already banned throughout Spain and each autonomous community and city council must apply the corresponding sanctions.

In mass events , there are specific recommendations to assess the risk for each of the events. The obligation to screen with PCR is established for specific groups and populations at risk depending on the outbreaks of which there is evidence: educational centers, housing blocks, health environments, etc.

The minister has also listed three recommendations for citizens: that they limit their social encounters to their usual stable groups as much as possible; that these encounters do not exceed 10 people and that health centers and residences are regularly screened to make sure that no worker has contracted the disease. This package of measures, he specified, is "a minimum, not a maximum." Illa added that "the autonomous communities may take more measures if they consider them appropriate."

The Minister of Health thanked the elderly "for the exemplary behavior they have followed when following the rules." He also reminded young people of the importance of being disciplined as older people are: "We cannot not comply with the rules that we have all agreed to during these months" because we cannot forget "that the virus is still among us."

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