In the most critical areas, affected by this partial tightening of restrictions in the Spanish capital region, the inhabitants will only be able to leave their neighborhoods to work, go to the doctor or take children to schools.
According to the president of the regional government of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, contagions are occurring, above all, “in the private domain”. The person in charge avoided using the noun confinement to describe the decisions taken in the last hours, preferring to talk about “mobility restriction measures”.It was up to the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to announce the exceptional measures that will cover 858 thousand of the inhabitants of the region and to be in force, for now, for 14 days.
Ayuso stressed, at the same time, that it is necessary to “avoid the economic disaster at all costs” of a complete confinement in some of Madrid’s neighborhoods, as the number two of the community health department arrived last Wednesday .
“The virus is everyone’s issue”, added the regional government official, to later recall that, in the neighborhoods most affected by infections, the contagion rate is at least one thousand cases per 100 thousand inhabitants: “A very serious number”.
“We detected 37 areas where the incidence is much higher, with a thousand contagions per 100 thousand inhabitants, a very serious number”, said Días Ayuso. “By not taking action, we run the risk of it spreading throughout Madrid and we are in time to avoid it.”
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Daniela Santiago, RTP correspondent in Madrid
The president of the regional executive indicated that “measures will also be taken to ensure that quarantines are fulfilled”.
“The state of alarm must be avoided by all means. Difficult weeks are coming, complicated moments. If we all row in the same direction, it will be easier ”, creased.
Madrid will also go ahead with “a diagnostic strategy” that involves “one million tests” to screen for the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The Community of Madrid does not have an autonomous police force, like Catalonia, for example. Therefore, it will have to request the support of the central government delegation, which supervises the National Police and the Civil Guard, with a view to monitoring compliance with restrictions. The use of army resources is not excluded.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso will meet next Monday with the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez. The Madrid governor promises to seek “a space for collaboration”, admitting that she needs the “strength of the State”.
We need help from the government of the nation and that is why we are very convinced that if we follow this line, we will achieve it. The two administrations will work units so the contagions do not grow. The Government of Spain does not come to protect, but to collaborate with the Community of Madrid ”, he emphasized.
Spain reported 14,389 new cases of Covid-19 this Friday, two thousand more than the previous day. The total number of infected people in the neighboring country thus rises to 640,040 since the beginning of the pandemic. The Spanish Ministry of Health recorded an additional 90 deaths in 24 hours, increasing the total to 30,495.
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