In the autonomous region of Spanish Catalonia, some 200 000 people are to again be put in quarantine to contain a new peak of the epidemic of coronavirus. This is what the president of the region, Quim Torra, announced this Saturday.

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” We have decided to confine the area del Segria (around the city of Lerida), on the basis of data that confirm a very strong growth in the number of contagions of Covid-19 “, said to the press the president of the region. He announced that this containment would start at noon (10.00 GMT), by restricting the inputs and outputs of this area.