Authorities in Catalonia on Sunday urged more than 96,000 persons in three cities to remain at house, as coronavirus scenarios ongoing to increase in one of Spain’s worst-hit areas.

This is in addition to some four million persons in the location, which includes in its money Barcelona, that have been on Friday urged to remain at house as regional authorities toughened their reaction to the disaster.

In a statement on Sunday, authorities urged individuals residing in Figueres and Vilafant, in the province of Girona, and Sant Feliu de Llobregat, in close proximity to Barcelona, to stay at home apart from for critical journeys.

The newest figures from Catalonia’s regional wellness ministry on Saturday showed a day by day enhance of 1,226 conditions.

The stay-home simply call stops small of imposing a obligatory lockdown, but is the strongest measure taken to returning men and women to residence confinement considering that Spain emerged from a nationwide lockdown very last month.

New measures consist of a ban on conferences of about 10 individuals. Bars and dining establishments will be permitted to open, but at 50 for every cent capacity inside and with a 2-metre (6.5-foot) distance in between tables outside.

Spain, a single of Europe’s most difficult-hit countries with far more than 28,000 Covid-19 fatalities, emerged from a strict countrywide lockdown on June 21. But given that then far more than 170 infection clusters have sprung up, prompting regional authorities to impose a patchwork of area limitations.