A day after the Spanish state Spain entered the so called "new normality" following the long coronavirus deescalation process, the three small provinces in Aragon took several steps back due to fresh outbreaks of the virus.

The 67,700 residents of the three provinces went back to Phase 2 after having moved through a four-stage process in one of the world’s strictest lockdown.

This is the first area to reintroduce restrictions. The Spanish state has been one of the world’s hardest-hit countries by the coronavirus pandemic, with an official death toll of 28,323.

Spain’s Health Minister, Salvador Illa, said that the situation in Aragón is being closely monitored and that the outbreak “is on its way to being under control.”

There are some 11 new outbreaks detected in the Spanish state so far.