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The President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has reported that they have been detected 32 coronavirus positives in passengers who have arrived in the last days at the Barajas airport.
Of these, 11 are imported cases for completing the 14-day incubation period in the country of origin and five have required hospitalization. Two are on October 12, one at the Infanta Elena de Valdemoro Hospital, one at the Gregorio Marañón and the other in a private center.
In the plenary session of the Madrid Assembly, the president has asked for a National Plan that guarantees security at Barajas airport after the opening of the Schengen borders on June 21, as it fears that Covid-19 will return to Madrid since the presence of the virus in the region is “non-existent”.
Ayuso: “The virus in Madrid is non-existent unless it re-enters by air”
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“For more than a month we have been asking the government to sit down together to establish protocols because I cannot persecute tourists to get into a hospital,” he said, asking that the community and government “go hand in hand.”
“We are going to regret it”
The regional president has criticized the triple control of travelers implemented by the ministries of Transport and Health – visual inspection, temperature and medical information through a form – and asked to be “more ambitious”. “They are falling short and we will regret it”, has pointed out.
“What is happening in Barajas will happen in the rest of Spain. At train stations, bus stations … There will be no time for regret, “warned the regional president, who has received support in the plenary session of Ciudadanos.
“The virus in Madrid is non-existent unless it re-enters by airways”, He said before a possible future outbreak in the Community of Madrid if infected travelers arrive in the region without being detected at the controls. “The airport has to be with us,” he has asked to demand a global strategy.
Aguado: “The protocol is laughable”
From Ciudadanos, the vice president of the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Aguado, has also joined Ayuso’s requests and has considered that Barajas’ security protocol “is laughable.”
Aguado has referred to one of the controls in Barajas, the temperature measurement, as “regrettable”. “There are studies that reveal that at least 40% of those infected have no symptoms or fever. Well come on, we discard them and they happen “, has said.
However, the biggest criticism of the Government has been for visual control once the passenger arrives in Barajas. “This check is already laughable. Here in this Assembly there are some doctors, help me understand it. Do a visual inspection. What is the face we have to have to have coronavirus? “, has asked.
For his part, the spokesperson for Más Madrid, Pablo Gómez Perpinyà, He has also transferred his criticism to the Barajas protocol of the central government but has influenced that the regional government is not doing “homework” either, given that “the vast majority of the things that remain to be done are measures that depend solely and exclusively” of this.
“The reality is that you are not concerned with the health of tourism or the health of all Madrid residents, you are exclusively concerned with finding a scapegoat to reassemble in the event that things go wrong and this is the sad reality of your government, “he snapped.
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