The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, faces a work meeting on Tuesday with the Madrid social agents -the CEIM employers and the UGT and CCOO unions- to address the reactivation
economic of the region after covid-19. Journey that Ayuso advocates starting how much
before. It is necessary to “return to normalcy soon” in the region to avoid an “economic catastrophe” and a “social disaster” of “magnitudes never seen before,” he said.
In statements to Telemadrid, Díaz Ayuso stressed that “we are at an intermediate point in which we must know how to hit the mark and combine health with the economy.” From the health point of view, the regional president explained that the Ifema field hospital for patients with coronavirus was temporarily turned off on May 1, but the channels will be left so that in the event of any upturn in cases can be reassembled in a few hours.
Meanwhile, the Community of Madrid is looking for its alternatives and each hospital has its circuits. One for Covid-19 patients and one for the rest, he explained. The “battle” against the coronavirus is “practically controlled”, with confinement and with protective measures “the virus has nowhere to spread and little by little come down ”, he maintained.
The regional president has pointed out that “the entire (health) system is breathing little by little and is prepared to take care of emergencies and everything that will arise from now on with the revival of the economy and the return to the streets of all the citizens”.
“What we have to do now is to influence self-protection”, Díaz Ayuso pointed out before indicating that “it is essential that we become aware that we must always wear the mask, especially in crowded or closed places, where there may be older people or cancer patients, to whom we can transmit the virus. ”
He stressed the importance of protecting older people more by encouraging them to have more space, in line at a supermarket or bank, “so that we take care of them and also take care of ourselves”, because “a person can be infected by any place”.
In her round of meetings with social partners, the regional president has shown her desire to meet with merchants from all sectors, hostelry, tourism, hairdressing salons and workshops, “with all the people who raise the economy of the Community of Madrid every day with their work”.
“We have to recover their pulse with them and delve into liberal policies that facilitate the creation of jobs, that all people who want to start an economic activity have fewer obstacles and that people who want to hire have help and not a tax or a tangle of procedures that always make everything difficult ”, he highlighted.
She has also been in favor of promoting public-private collaboration, as well as the Madrid Nuevo Norte project for Madrid to recover the economic situation it had in the first months of this year.
“If Madrid does things well, it does not have to leave the last of the lack of confinement”, he defended in the last hours, although he recognized that other autonomies with less contagion peak can do things “more quickly”. In her reasoning, the president rejects the possibility that the state of alarm continues and warns that the region must regain economic activity to avoid “a problem of public order” with a million unemployed people who would be here by the end of the year.
“We have to recover the pulse and delve into liberal policies that facilitate the creation of jobs”
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