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The Minister of Health of the Generalitat, Alba Vergés , will propose this Tuesday to the Government that the mandatory use of masks be approved at all times and throughout Catalonia, except in the domestic sphere, whether or not the safety distance can be maintained .

In an interview on RAC1, Vergés has said that he will share this proposal with the rest of the councilors so that it reaches the territorial plan for civil protection in Catalonia (Procicat) and is established in a resolution, whose non-compliance would lead to the imposition of sanctions.

"We want to introduce this protection mechanism as a general rule everywhere, you can keep your distance or you cannot keep your distance," said Vergés, who also plans to see a significant increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the Lleida region in the coming days. del Segrià, where the situation is "delicate".

"When the trend is increasing this does not lie down in two days, and therefore we have to expect a significant growth in cases ," said the minister on the situation in this confined region.

Vergés has insisted on the importance of introducing the mandatory nature of masks "as a general rule everywhere, and only remove it when you are with your cohabitants", or in situations where their incompatibility has been demonstrated, such as when you are doing sports.

"The same obligation that we have put in Lleida on the masks we have to do throughout the country," said Vergés, who has advanced: "I will share this with the Govern."

"We believe that we must take this step throughout the country not because we are worse in Catalonia", but because of "the behavior we have as a society, in the risks we assume; there is beginning to be much more mobility , more movement of people, people who He will come to spend the holidays ... therefore, to reduce the risks, I think it is important to take these measures, "stressed Vergés.

The Minister has assured that the situation between the Segrià region and the rest of the Catalan territory "has nothing to do" and that "luckily we can say that we are in a good epidemiological state in the rest of Catalonia, but to keep it that way it is everyone's involvement is important. "

He explained that in the meetings of the health teams they have "realized that the perimeter in Segrià has covered many of the internal measures that we have applied, and that they are extremely important and key, and that some of these measures can be applied throughout the country, as is the mandatory use of masks. "

In the face of the evolution of the pandemic in the rest of the world, "we must try to incorporate all these measures as an intrinsic way of acting from now on," concluded Vergés, who recalled that it is still essential to "keep your distance and hygiene hands . "

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