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the State may impose restrictions in cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants


A central street in La Laguna, in these days of a state of alarm. / GIVES

The central and Madrid governments have reached a “principle of agreement” to try to contain the expansion of the coronavirus during the COVID-19 Group meeting held this Tuesday afternoon between both administrations, according to sources familiar with the meeting.

In municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, “a homogeneous criterion has been agreed to apply in the Community of Madrid and in the rest of Spain”.

For municipalities with less than 100,000 inhabitants, it will be the autonomous communities that will make the decision on possible restrictions “taking into account the regulations and protocols at the state level.”

The same sources specify that “the effective application of these criteria” in the Community of Madrid is at the expense of their approval at the meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System of Spain this Wednesday.

“Technical criteria”

In this regard, sources from the Government of the Community of Madrid have indicated that both administrations have begun to continue negotiating “the technical criteria to take measures to restrict mobility and activity in the face of the evolution of the coronavirus.”

In the Interterritorial Council, the Community of Madrid will forward its proposal that there be “a single criterion for all the autonomous communities”, that PCR of origin be carried out “for greater security” at the Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas Airport and “a reinforcement” at the RENFE and AVE train controls.

The principle of agreement has arrived at the third meeting of the COVID-19 Group held this afternoon, which lasted about two hours.

The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa; the Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Function, Carolina Darias; the vice president and spokesperson for the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Aguado; and the Madrid Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero.

The creation of this group was the only concrete agreement reached between the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, at the meeting held on September 21, where they made calls for unity.

However, later both administrations publicly aired their differences on how to control the pandemic in the Community of Madrid.

In fact, the meeting held this Monday between the Minister of Health and the Madrid councilor ended without an agreement.

The national government continued to demand the implementation of mobility restrictions for areas with an accumulated incidence of 500 cases of coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, which would include the entire capital.

For its part, the regional government defended the mobility restrictions that it has implemented in a total of 45 health zones with three requirements, including a cumulative incidence of 1,000 cases of coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants, and advocated also taking into account the healthcare capacity to take action.

Municipalities
This is the list of Spanish municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants:

1. Madrid

2. Barcelona

3. Valencia

4. Sevilla

5. Zaragoza

6. Málaga

7. Murcia

8. Palma

9. Las Palmas

10. Bilbao

11. Alicante

12. Córdoba

13. Valladolid

14. Vigo

15. Gijón

16. Hospitalet de Llobregat

17. Vitoria

18. La Coruña

19. Elche

20. Granada

21. Tarrasa

22. Badalona

23. Oviedo

24. Cartagena

25. Sabadell

26. Jerez de la Frontera

27. Móstoles

28. Santa Cruz de Tenerife

29. Pamplona

30. Almeria

31. Alcalá de Henares

32. Fuenlabrada

33. Leganés

34. San Sebastian

35. Getafe

36. Burgos

37. Albacete

38. Santander

39. Castellón de la Plana

40 .Alcorcón

41. San Cristóbal de La Laguna

42. Logroño

43. Badajoz

44. Salamanca

45. Huelva

46. Marbella

47. Lleida

48. Tarragona

49. Two Sisters

50. Torrejón de Ardoz

51. Speak

52. Mataró

53. Leon

54. Algeciras

55. Santa Coloma de Gramanet

56. Alcobendas

57. Cádiz

58. Jaén

59. Orense

60. Reus

61. Counted

62. Girona

63. Baracaldo

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