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The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, rules out harsh home confinement like the one carried out in the first wave of the pandemic. He believes that the legal tools that communities have are sufficient to bend the curve. "They already have the necessary legal tools to bend the curve and that, in practice, is what other countries call confinement. For example in Portugal. And something similar is happening in Germany. With the data we have now it is not necessary to go beyond," Illa said in an interview with El País . Faced with pressure from some autonomous communities for the Government to decree a confinement again, the Minister of Health once again denies as he did yesterday in a press conference. The Government trusts the exit of the third wave to the same solutions implemented in the second and assures that its commitment is co-governance with the autonomous communities.
Some statements that come at a time of "worrying" data after the Christmas holidays. Eight autonomies are at extreme risk of ICU occupation due to the increase in COVID-19 cases . The Balearic Islands, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, Extremadura, Madrid and La Rioja exceed 25% of the available places . This Friday, the Ministry of Health Europe Cell Phone Number List registered a new daily record with 40,197 new positives and the highest incidence of the entire pandemic, RTVE reports . But the Minister of Health , Salvador Illa, defends that the data allows us to say that it is not the precise moment for home confinement , he says in an interview with El País . "We have always said that this is not a mechanical decision process. We must make a global assessment of the epidemiological situation," he tells the outlet.
Galicia, Castilla y León, Murcia and Andalusia have proposed modifying the state of alarm decree — in force until next April — to have more jurisdiction for restrictions, according to EFE . Two of them, Andalusia and Castilla y León — which has brought forward, without legal coverage, the curfew to 8:00 p.m. — demand home confinement . The restrictions and measures of each autonomous community after Christmas "Each community can decide whether to close commercial or leisure sectors. They already have the necessary legal tools to bend the curve and that, in practice, is what other countries call confinement," insists Illa, giving the example of the management of the neighboring countries Portugal and Germany.