The Govern still does not rule out that Barcelonatheir metropolitan areas and Lleida go to phase 3 starting next Monday, June 15. The Minister of Salut, Alba Vergés assured yesterday that the Generalitat It is not closed to this possibility, despite the fact that the proposal approved by Procicat last Monday and sent to the Spanish Government proposed that only Girona and central Catalonia jump to the last stage of the de-escalated next week.
“The indicators for the Barcelona health region, Metropolitana Norte and Metropolitana Sur are very good, and outbreaks in the Lleida health region are already controlled,” he said. Vergés at the press conference after the announcement of the compensation to the health workers for their work during the emergency of the Covid-19. Although the usual period to move from one phase to the next is 14 days, the consellera expressed the willingness of the Govern to evaluate during the next days “what helps the management of society during the epidemic”.
The possibility of an express transition from the Catalan capital to phase 3 collides with the plan presented by Procicat
Vergés recalled that in phase 3 it is the autonomous governments that define the management of the de-escalation, and that it is necessary to assess what advantages this new scenario provides: “We could define from the Government of the Generalitat what phase 3 is and regulate society , offering clear messages to the population so that citizens know where we are ”in this final stretch of the crisis.
In any case, Catalonia and the rest of the communities will regain many powers over the measures to be taken from the following week, since the state of alarm falls on June 21.
The mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, the Restoration Guild and other economic sectors of Barcelona have been pressing for the last few days so that the metropolitan area could progress from phase one week in advance, arguing that the rate of contagions in the city It is low.
Meanwhile, the chief of epidemiology at the Barcelona Clinical Hospital, Antoni Trilla, believes that it is “better and more prudent” to maintain the health regions of Barcelona and Lleida in phase 2 until June 21. “It would be 14 days, the most orthodox term” to change the phase, said the government adviser.
The possibility of an express transition from the Catalan capital to phase 3 collides with the plan presented by Procicat earlier in the week.
The entity of the Generalitat that manages the emergency, led by the Interior and Health Departments, proposed to leave Barcelona and its metropolitan areas free from the acceleration in the de-escalation that is projected for almost all of Spain for next Monday. The initial Procicat proposal would suppose that Barcelona would have to enter phase 3 when it no longer existed, since it would coincide with the expiration date of the alarm state.
On the other hand, the Community of Madrid, which earlier this week opted to ask the Ministry of Health for the advance pass to phase 3 next Monday, will not. Nor will it ask for any measure to make phase 2 more flexible. This was announced yesterday by the Community’s vice-president, Ignacio Aguado, who had already said days before that he was not in favor of accelerating the region’s transition to phase 3 because the fifteen days scheduled for Advancing between the different scenarios is not “on a whim”, but because of the incubation period of the virus, which determines how to de-escalate.
The regions that yesterday announced that they will request the pass to the last phase are the Valencian Community, Castilla y León, Ceuta and the provinces of Toledo, Albacete and Ciudad Real. The president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, advanced that he is also working on the possibility of canceling the state of alarm next Monday in Galicia, a decision that would be adopted at his cabinet meeting this Friday.
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