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"At this time we do not contemplate a home confinement"

and if it is necessary to modify curfews "will be studied" because any restriction of fundamental rights such as mobility must be done with "all legal guarantees.

This is all that the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, has said, despite the expectation that his appearance had generated this Saturday to assess the evolution of the epidemic.

Illa appeared at her own request after 40,200 infections and 575 cases per 100,000 inhabitants were reported yesterday, the worst figure of the entire epidemic, and with all the autonomies except the Canary Islands with incidents exceeding the limit considered by the Ministry of Health itself as extreme risk and with up to 7 autonomies exceeding the three key indicators of saturation of ICU, hospitals and cases.

All ears were on his words, not in vain the Ministry has on the table the

formal request of Andalusia, Castilla y León, Murcia and Asturias to allow home confinements

in light of the evolution of the epidemic, to which the Government it has already been repeatedly denied, and the veiled appeal of other autonomies such as La Rioja or Galicia that have asked the population to self-define.

But Illa also had on the table the order of autonomies such as Castilla y León that, despite the non-ministerial, have decreed since this Saturday a curfew advanced at 8:00 p.m.

Although the decree of the current state of alarm would only allow it, according to Health, to advance the curfew at 22.00.

The minister has hinted at

a debate in the Interterritorial on the possible change in the time slots of the curfew

with a change that in any case would have to have all the legal guarantees.

Illa, who appeared from Catalonia just one day after it became known that the Catalan elections will be delayed at the end of May due to the situation of the epidemic and despite the will of the PSC to maintain them on February 14 with Illa himself as a socialist candidate,

has declined to comment on the electoral delay that will prolong his stay for months in the ministry

while he has always defended that he will not abandon it until the Catalan electoral campaign formally begins and has insisted that he is focused "one hundred and one percent" on fighting this third wave of the epidemic, which has almost doubled the number of hospitalized and increased by 55% the number admitted to ICU since the holidays.

The minister also referred to

the reduction in the volume of vaccines announced yesterday by Pfizer

for all European countries and which will mean that next week only 56% of the committed doses will be received.

Given this situation and, as on Monday the second dose should begin to be administered to the first vaccinated, it has been agreed to prioritize the distribution of available vaccines "in an equitable way" to guarantee that the population already vaccinated with the first dose receives time, after 21 days, the second dose.

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