• Health. Controls in Segrià create queues on the first working day after confinement is decreed

The President of the Generalitat, Quim Torra, is testing his own medicine. If during the state of alarm decreed by the State in the face of the health crisis, he was most critical of the Government's actions and the decisions of the health authorities, he went from demanding total confinement to asking for more freedom of movement with the de-escalation, now he is seeing how everyone is against him with the decision to establish a confinement in Lérida and its surroundings. Torra stressed that in Catalonia there is no danger of a general outbreak, despite yesterday, in addition to cases in the Segrià area, there were also new people affected by coronaviruses in other regions of the center of autonomy and in several districts of Barcelona.

The Generalitat believes that these outbreaks are controlled, like the one in Lérida, although Torra did not rule out having to perimeter some more region in the coming weeks and not letting anyone out with police controls. However, workers and people with justifiable causes have been allowed to pass and in Lérida there is no order to confine the houses. The President is willing to take "the most appropriate decisions" in each case and that the Generalitat is "prepared" to deal with outbreaks "from different points of view" but following "the criteria of the experts", although he did not specify.

As usual, the Government wanted to distract its responsibility by blaming the Government. In this case, the Minister of Health, Alba Vergés, assured that it is up to the State to regulate the seasonal workers who come to work in the fields and that they are among the groups most affected by the infection since they live in very poor conditions. "We must set conditions of dignity. The State has an important role that is not playing, "said the counselor although the General Union of Workers (UGT) and Workers Commissions (CCOO) blamed employers in the field for having created" a call effect "among the seasonal workers, thus contributing to lack of control of the coronavirus.

The director of the Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES), Fernando Simón, assured that he would have preferred that the Generalitat made the decision to confine the Segrià region before the appearance of various outbreaks of coronavirus cases, admitted that "a past bull is easy to say. " He assured that some outbreaks have a "volume of cases well above what is reasonable" and regarding the confinement he indicated that he "would have liked to have been notified before" because with "the information that was appearing, it seemed clear that it had to be confined."

The mayor of Lérida, Miquel Pueyo, urged to encourage social "mediation" among the people of Lleida to thus stop the virus because strictly police controls "are not always enough." The Generalitat asked for toilets and volunteer social workers from all over Catalonia to go to the affected regions in anticipation of more cases in the coming days and stressed that the confinement could take much more than two weeks. In this sense, the health authorities highlighted that the 14 outbreaks detected, ten of them in fruit companies and two in nursing homes, in a shelter and in a community of neighbors, have become community transmission, which means that the virus is spreading in the area although more slowly and with less virulence. For this reason, Vergés asked the citizens of this area "to reduce social activity as much as possible" since "what happens in Lérida should alert us all." However, he refused to reorder a phase 2 in Segrià, following the decision of Aragon with some outbreaks, since he believes that the way the phases were thought was obsolete, in his words.

Also the president of Pimec, Josep González, assured that "it will be necessary to manage the outbreaks with intelligence and speed so that they do not affect our economy in general again" and defended that the recovery of the industry "is important due to direct jobs and indirect that it generates ". The president of the Lleida Chamber of Commerce, Jaume Saltó, said that the Govern "has not taken the business world of Lleida into account" in the perimeter confinement of the Segrià region to curb the spread of coronavirus.

During the first weekend of confinement in the Segrià region in Lleida, the Mossos d'Esquadra prioritized "informing, not reporting" to people who have circulated in the area, and this Monday they are studying opening more ways to trucks. They value it considering that in the region "there is a lot of activity from primary and tertiary sectors that involves movement of vehicles and machinery," explained the body's chief commissioner, Eduard Sallent,

This week they will review the itineraries of entry and exit to the polygons of the area "to make circulation much more agile", restricted since Saturday when the confinement of the region was announced. The Generalitat has recommended that those who have to travel to work in the area use a certificate of self-responsibility signed by the company, and the Mossos remember this at the controls in the region.

On Thursday, the Generalitat organized a musical act to remember the victims in Barcelona.

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