Spain locks down county of 200,000 people due to outbreaks

 Authorities in rastern Spain on Saturday ordered lockdown of a county around city of Lleida due to worrying outbreaks of COVID-19 virus.

Catalan regional authorities anunced that as of on local time movement will be restricted to and from El Segriá, around Lleida, which is home to over 200,000 people. Residents will have until 4 p.m. local to enter area.

This is first restriction of free movement since end of Spain's state of emergency on June 21.

Regional health authorities said Friday that y h registered a jump in 60 cases in 24 hours, taking total number of infections to over 4,000 in county.

new outbreaks are linked to agricultural workers in rural area.

Spain was completely locked down from March to June to get its coronavirus outbreak under control, before its national government ended a state of emergency. Over 28,000 people are confirmed to have died from virus in Spain.