After being greatly disappointed last week by celebrations to mark the end of the state of alarm, the director of the Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies (CAES), Fernando Simon, was clearly optimistic about the evolution of the pandemic despite the end of the night curfew. Simón considered Spain's data to be "very flattering" in terms of the evolution of the pandemic and has even opened the door to ending compulsory mask-wearing outdoors and in certain places such as nursing homes in "not many days".

Cases of the British variant already account for 25% of infections in Catalonia, with much higher incidences in other regions in Spain. The variants are here to stay and, in the face of the detection of the first cases of the South African variant, which spreads 20%, 30% or even 70% faster and resistant to some vaccines to some vaccines, the Ministry of Health admits that it could end up gaining a foothold in Spain. That is why the director of the Centre for Coordination of Alerts and Health Emergencies, Fernando Simón, has warned on Monday that despite the general decline in all indicators in Spain we should avoid being overconfident when de-escalating measures, because the longer the restrictions are maintained - he spoke of weeks and not months - the more guarantees that variants do not end up causing a significant amount of new covid-19 cases.