Catalonia and the Member States have been affected in a unique way by the consequences caused by the Covid-19 outbreak, which has caused a public health crisis with a huge impact on their economic growth. On the one hand, it is necessary to make large unforeseen expenses to reinforce the capacity of the health system, as well as to provide the whole of society with instruments that allow facing the public health crisis, ensuring the protection of people and facilitating measures of confinement. Added to this is a sharp drop in economic activity, with the paralysis of entire sectors of the economy, which in turn makes it necessary to implement costly measures that alleviate its social impact. All this translates into an urgent need for liquidity, which the Funds must contribute to satisfying._x000D_ _x000D_ Regulation 2020/460 of the European Parliament and of the Council modifies the scope of Investment Priority 1.2 (Thematic Objective 1) included in article 5 of Regulation 1301/2013, so that the necessary expenses to reinforce the capacities of response to this public health crisis. In line with this expansion of the scope of Investment Priority 1.d, the purpose of this Specific Objective is to promote all the necessary measures to face the public health crisis caused by the Covidien-19 outbreak, considering all kinds of expenses linked to the fight against the disease (including, among others, expenses in sanitary equipment, test material, personal protective equipment, reinforcement facilities, hiring of additional personnel, R&D actions, ICT equipment and applications, etc.). ). The contribution of European funds, through the co-financing of expenditure included in this specific objective, will be of vital importance to face the dimensions of the health and socioeconomic situation derived from the impact of the pandemic._x000D_ _x000D_ This operation includes all those reinforcement measures put in place and / or planned in order to face the health crisis caused by Covidien-19, and fundamentally those described below:_x000D_ _x000D_ The Catalan Institute of Health has become the buyer of the entire health sector in Catalonia given its potential in terms of contracting and logistics availability throughout the territory