After Catalonia also want to introduce the Balearic Islands, a mask is compulsory. Not only in Barcelona and the Costa Brava, also in Mallorca, Ibiza and Menorca, people have to cover up in Public soon, the mouth and the nose. In Catalonia, the duty since Thursday is in force, even if the distance requirement is true; if you didn’t, you must pay 100 Euro penalty. The Balearic Islands want to follow from this weekend to the model. Exceptions are there bathrooms on the beach, during sports, in swimming and in Restaurants. So far, it was only required that masks must be worn when the safety distance of one and a half meters do not comply with. May the number of people is also limited, which may meet in Free.

It does not want to put the successes in the fight against the Corona of a pandemic on the game, said the Balearic regional President Francina Armengol. Unlike on the mainland there is not a greater increase in new infections was on the Islands recently to observe, however, less caution in the everyday life. In the whole of Spain the number of new infections has doubled according to the latest Figures from the Ministry of health with 257 cases within 24 hours; a total of more than 60 local infection were found to be done. This was the strongest increase since the end of may. In Catalonia, the district of Segrià, with more than 200,000 inhabitants, is sealed off since the weekend. In addition to Catalonia, Galicia in the North-West is another infection focus.