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Strict quarantine measures have been implemented in six districts of Madrid and several other areas of Spain most affected by the second wave of coronavirus infection, local authorities said.
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The partial quarantine in Madrid and seven major surrounding cities means that starting Monday, residents will be able to enter or leave their area only to go to work, to the doctor, to school or by summons, said regional leader Isabel Ayuso.
Similar restrictions will be imposed on the Spanish resort island of Mallorca.
People will be able to move within their area, but parks will be closed, it is forbidden to gather more than six people, public buildings, shops, cafes and restaurants can accommodate people only up to half their capacity.
The affected areas have exceeded the dangerous limit of 1,000 infected per 100,000 inhabitants in a period of 14 days. For Europe as a whole, this figure is just 76.
Ayuso called the figure “very bad” and stressed that the authorities have been forced to take drastic measures. “We have to avoid total quarantine, to avoid an economic catastrophe,” he explained.
Critics say the measures are too late. They noted that there is a lack of administrative capacity to trace the chains of contagion in order to identify those infected and that insufficient tests are carried out in the affected areas compared to other regions of the country. According to the Associated Press, the announced measures mainly affect areas with lower living standards and poorer populations, where some 815,000 people live.
Hospitals and medical facilities are at the limit of their capacity, Spanish media reported, adding that intensive care units will be at 100 percent in two weeks at the current rate of growth of the infection. Only in the last 24 hours there have been about 14,400 new coronavirus infections in Spain. A third of them are in Madrid, adds BTA.
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