MADRID: About 160,000 people in the Spanish region of Catalonia returned to confinement on Wednesday as authorities scrambled to control a fresh surge of coronavirus infections in the area, just weeks after a nationwide lockdown was lifted.
A judge finally approved the regional government's stay-at-home order for residents of the city of Lleida and six nearby towns on Tuesday night after several days of legal wrangling and political tensions over the issue.Under the new rules, people may only leave their homes for essential activities like working or buying supplies.
Regional authorities have also encouraged the residents of three neighbourhoods in L'Hospitalet, a Barcelona suburb that is home to around 260,000, to stay home, but that's not a mandatory confinement. Another judge refused to rubber stamp a proposed restriction on gatherings of more than 10 people there.
But since then, more than 170 clusters have sprung up around Spain, prompting regional authorities to impose a patchwork of local restrictions, confusing locals and angering businesses. While Catalonia, which is Spain's second-most populous region, is the first to return its citizens to home confinement, parts of Galicia have been sealed off to visitors and the Basque town of Ordizia imposed a curfew to tackle their own outbreaks.
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