As the UK, France, Norway and a handful of other European countries impose mandatory quarantines on travelers visiting from Spain - or warning their citizens to avoid travel to Catalonia, the epicenter of the outbreak - anxieties are rising as the outbreak in Barcelona and the surrounding suburbs, including the village of Lleida, and seven nearby towns, intensifies. A little over a week ago, Catalan authorities imposed a lockdown affecting 160,000 people in and around Lleida, a swath of suburban Barcelona. Since then, they've advised people in the restive region of 7.5 million to stay home and observe social ... (full story)