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Experts believed the Spanish region was going to see the peak of the sixth wave last week, but infections continue to climb, with 215,000 reported in the past seven days

Decision comes as Spanish region sets new weekly record for coronavirus infections at more than 200,000 cases, twice the figure when the restriction was introduced

Bruno Polo, who contracted the virus before Christmas, last summer and in 2020, warns that the true spread may be going undetected if people are not getting tested

The region currently has the fourth-highest incidence of the coronavirus among Spain’s territories, and there are fears of further spread during the upcoming long December weekend

Older people are more like to support this view in a country with one of the highest immunization rates but now faced with the problem of expiring doses

The judges point to the fact that the epidemiological data submitted by the authorities are already out of date, and that police controls should be sufficient to ensure coronavirus rules are respected

In the last seven days, 25,738 cases have been detected in Catalonia, five times up on a week ago. Young people are at the center of the new spike

The first case of local contagion of this more-infectious mutation has been found in Barcelona, after random testing was carried out on positive cases. Spain currently counts on very low capacity to carry out such genetic sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

An engineer caught by the lockdowns on his way to Singapore instead covered 25,700 km by bike on a European tour that allowed him to compare national attitudes to the coronavirus

Authorities admit that there has been an “error” in their tracking system, but denied that there has been a new outbreak in the region

“We believe that we have to anticipate a very fast evolution of the disease in our country,” says Quim Torra in televised address on Friday night

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