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The holiday island of Mallorca, the Madrid region and other parts of Spain have decided to tighten the corona measures again due to the increasing number of infections.
After a regional infection record in the Balearic Islands, all restaurants, bars and cafes on Mallorca as well as all department stores, shopping and fitness centers will have to be closed for two weeks from Tuesday, as the Balearic government spokeswoman Pilar Costa announced in Palma on Friday.
In the retail sector, all stores with a sales area of more than 700 square meters are affected.
The sale of food, medicines and all basic necessities remains permitted.
With 529 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within 14 days, the Balearic Islands after Extremadura on the border with Portugal (716) are currently the most severely hit region in Spain by Corona.
With 707 infections within 24 hours, the islands had registered the highest value since the outbreak of the pandemic, said the regional health minister Patricia Gómez.
The situation is particularly bad on Mallorca, where there were 485 new infections within one day.
The so-called 14-day incidence on the island is 608.
Other municipalities and districts in the region around Madrid are cordoned off
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In the region around Madrid, a further nine municipalities and 23 smaller districts will be cordoned off for two weeks from Monday, as the regional government announced.
This increases the number of cordoned-off areas that can only be left or entered with good reason to a total of 14 municipalities and 41 smaller districts.
Around 1.2 million of the 6.7 million inhabitants of the so-called autonomous community are affected.
The situation in Spain has been getting worse and worse since the end of December.
The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within 14 days last climbed to 321. At the end of December it was still below 250. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, over two million infections with Sars-CoV-2 have been reported.
In the country of around 47 million people, more than 51,000 people died with Covid-19.
“The situation has gotten significantly worse.
We have tough weeks ahead of us, ”said Health Minister Salvador Illa on Friday.