Covid-19 tests carried out in Spain (illustrative image).

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The epidemic continues to grow in Spain, where the authorities are taking new restrictive measures.

Latest, the Spanish region of Navarre, border with France, will be partially cordoned off from Thursday to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the regional executive announced on Monday.

The 660,000 inhabitants of this region of northeastern Spain, where the city of Pamplona is located, will be able to enter and leave it only for "reasons of work, health, education or care", detailed the regional president from Navarre, Maria Chivite.

Bars and restaurants will also be closed from that date and businesses will have to lower the curtain at 9 p.m.

More and more cities affected by new restrictions

"We do not want to wait until it is too late", justified the president of the region who recorded 945 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last 14 days, against 312 in Spain according to the report of the Ministry of Health published Monday.

A regional health cordon has been unprecedented in Spain since the start of the second wave of coronavirus.

Like Navarre, the city of Burgos (north) announced Monday that its 175,000 inhabitants would be subject to partial closure overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday.

Burgos thus joins the increasingly long list of cities subject to partial closure, including the capital Madrid and eight surrounding municipalities, where four million people have seen their mobility limited since October 2 and until Friday evening.

But "there is no intention to extend the state of alert (establishing this closure) in Madrid", indicated Monday the chief epidemiologist of the Ministry of Health, Fernando Simon.

Dr Simon noted, however, that "over the past week, the stabilization we are seeing appears to be following a small upward trend again" in Spain.

Spain remains one of the European countries most affected by Covid-19, with nearly 975,000 cases and nearly 34,000 deaths.

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