The Government has retained Madrid in Phase 0 to prevent a mass exodus during the San Isidro bridge. It has alleged sanitary criteria to reject the request of Isabel Díaz Ayuso to advance in the de-escalation. But one of the hidden keys to the refusal is to avoid trips to second homes within the Community in the coming days.
In principle, the Ministry of Health will re-evaluate the situation at the end of the week for the phase change that allows, in other things, meetings of up to ten people, to open the terraces and hotels, open-air markets and to attend shows and museums with a third capacity. . But it will wait at least a week.
Paralyze the movements in San Isidro
As you have been able to know Confidential Digital For sources close to the management committee of the de-escalation, Health has opted to “heal in health” with the aim of paralyzing a million trips that it foreseen throughout the region from this Thursday afternoon to Sunday night with the move to Phase 1.
The Government has managed to keep the Community of Madrid in Phase 0 for the next few days, which will take progress in the de-escalation as soon as Monday, May 18, once the long weekend has ended on the occasion of the patron saint’s party. the capital, which is celebrated this Friday, May 15.
It is taken into account that the majority of Madrid residents expect to enjoy three consecutive holidays at the end of this week, in which they will not even have to telework.
Massive exits to second residences
Since this Monday, the inhabitants of the provinces that have advanced to Phase 1 -approximately 51% of the Spanish population- can go to their second homes if they are in the same province or health area, as announced on Saturday by the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in an appearance in Moncloa.
However, sources from the Ministry of Health had denied hours before the possibility of moving to a second home in this phase of the de-escalation.
After the announcement of Sánchez and the disagreement between what was announced by the President and the explanation of the department headed by Salvador Illa, the Secretary of State for Communication, Miguel Ángel Oliver, confirmed the change in criteria: it will be possible to move to a second residence within the same province.
Sources with access to La Moncloa now recognize ECD that the change in criteria was decided once it was confirmed, last Friday, that Madrid did not change phase and, therefore, the risk of massive displacements from the capital to second homes was completely ruled out.
“You can’t let your guard down now”
At this time, Health supports the healthcare capacity of Madrid but is inclined to wait until the primary care detection system is more entrenched for the phase change. Furthermore, they insist that “it is time not to let your guard down.”
“Just in those days we cannot relax. After two months of confinement“A vacation after a long period of confinement will cause millions of displacements and a general exodus with the virus still circulating is not admissible”, explain to ECD in the team of one of the ministers who form the management committee of the de-escalation that meets every day in La Moncloa with Pedro Sánchez.
I anticipated more than a million trips
According to the sources consulted by Confidential Digital, the Government has taken into account that the main flow of movement is carried out on those dates by road from the large urban centers of the Community to second homes in municipalities throughout the region.
They remember that the last year in which San Isidro fell on Monday (2017), and allowed the chaining of three public holidays in Madrid, almost a million trips to homes in the mountains were registered, movements that would now be authorized if the Community had accessed said Phase 1.
These figures do not include movements towards coastal areas, which would remain equally prohibited in Phase 1 because mobility between provinces is not allowed until reaching what Moncloa has come to call as “new normality. A stage that has located at the earliest for the middle of June.
Madrid, one of the hardest hit by the pandemic
We must remember that Madrid is one of the communities hardest hit by the pandemic.
Accumulate 69,125 cases of coronavirus -64,333 confirmed by PCR test– and maintains 2,806 admitted to the hospital due to infection, 537 of them in critical care units. A figure that still represents 37 patients above the public beds with which the region entered this crisis (500).
In addition, it is the territory with the most deaths, 8,552 in hospitals and 13,585 totals counting the deaths in homes, homes for the elderly and people with disabilities and “other places” that the Community records, but does not specify what they are, in its daily report, published since last April 22.
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