Spain has become the first European Union nation to record one million coronavirus infections.
But infections have surged since the lockdown measures were fully removed at the end of June, with the rise blamed on the rapid return of nightlife and a lack of an efficient system to track and trace infections.
"The pandemic has been used as a political weapon to fight and argue with your adversaries instead of trying to find a middle ground and the best solution for everyone," Salvador Macip, an expert in health sciences at Catalonia's Open University who has written a book called"The Great Modern Plagues", told AFP.As infections have picked up, Spanish regional authorities started imposing fresh restrictions.
The northern wine-growing region of La Rioja announced Wednesday it would close its regional borders while the northeastern region of Aragon said it would impose a partial lockdown on its three biggest cities - Huesca, Teruel and Zaragoza.Millions in Europe enter tough new coronavirus restrictions amid a 'very concerning' spike in cases
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