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Quim Torra avoids all responsibility regarding the Covid outbreak generated in Lérida, which has forced the confinement of more than 200,000 people and which has become the main focus of contagion in Spain.

Despite the fact that the chain of infections in the Segrià region has already been unleashed outside the state of alarm and, therefore, with all health powers in the hands of the Generalitat, the President of the Catalan Executive has chosen to attack the State in instead of singing the mea culpa .

"The fault [of the pandemic] is Madrid, it is evident. That is why we want to be independent. We still do not know, and one day it will be known, that in Spain there are twice as many deaths from Covid," Torra proclaimed in the Parliament later of a heated discussion with the leader of the PSC, Miquel Iceta , who had just reproached him for the ineffectiveness of the Govern in controlling the runaway outbreak of Lérida.

They ask for the resignation of the Minister of Health

The parliamentary session has led to a forceful oversight of the Government, which has included requests for resignation to the Minister of Health, Alba Vergés , who on Friday denied that there would be any type of confinement in Lérida to end up applying it 24 hours later.

"You do not generate confidence, and it would be better for you to leave office and be assumed by someone who does not continue to act late and badly," the specialist in health issues of the Catalan socialists, Deputy Assumpta Escarp, claimed for Vergés, for whom "there was poor management when it comes to preventing, testing and quarantining those who have tested positive. "

"Every time you have faced a minimally complex problem, you have shown an unprecedented incompetence. Such a level of incompetence in a modern democracy should only lead to your resignation and someone else taking on the important challenges that lie ahead," he said. head of ranks of the PP in Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández .

Mandatory mask from Thursday

The only response from the Government has been to delegate to the public the management of the pandemic. Torra has confirmed, in this sense, that from Thursday it will be mandatory to wear a mask in all public spaces even if the safety distance can be maintained. The measure will be approved throughout this Wednesday.

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