China News Service, October 16 According to Reuters, on the 15th local time, there were 13,300 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Spain, and a total of 921,374 cases were confirmed.
As the number of confirmed cases in Catalonia continues to surge, the region is preparing to close bars and restaurants to reduce the spread of the virus.
According to reports, in the past 24 hours, there were 140 new deaths in Spain, and the cumulative number of deaths rose to 33,553.
On September 24, 2020, local time, Madrid, Spain, a 6-meter-high statue of a "super medical worker" was placed in the city center of Madrid. The statue was designed to pay tribute to the medical staff fighting the new crown virus and the pedestrians passing by Take pictures with them.
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Fernando Simon, the Spanish health emergency coordinator, said in the outbreak briefing, “The situation in Spain is stabilizing, but we cannot relax our vigilance. In any region, we have not reached the incidence rate we want.”
The Supreme Court of Catalonia approved on the 15th that all bars and restaurants in the region, including Barcelona, Spain’s second largest city, will be closed for 15 days to curb the surge in the number of confirmed cases.
The new restrictions will be implemented from 1 am on the 16th.
Maria, a Spanish health worker, worries that more restrictive measures will set the economy back, but she also said, “(officials) must evaluate them and find solutions for all of us, because if we don’t do this, regardless of health Economically, we will all be destroyed."