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The Madrid vice president, Ignacio Aguado, announced at a press conference that the region, the current epicenter of the epidemic in Spain, will formally request on Thursday in a meeting with representatives of the central government “urgent military logistical support for the […] conducting tests and basic disinfection tasks ”in the most affected neighborhoods.
During the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, that hit Spain with special force, the army carried out support and disinfection work throughout the country.
Likewise, Aguado indicated, Madrid will request the deployment of more than 220 policemen to guarantee compliance with quarantines and impose fines on people who fail to comply with mobility restrictions, which since Monday have been applied to some 850,000 people in various areas of the region, especially in poor neighborhoods in the south of the capital.
Too, that the government facilitate the rehiring of 300 foreign doctors “Who were working during the first wave of the pandemic in Madrid,” said the regional authority.
Commitment “now”
Madrid hopes that the government, whose chief Pedro Sánchez met on Monday with regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso to offer her support, will “commit now” so that these reinforcements are operational next Monday, Aguado added.
Moments before, the Regional Deputy Minister of Health, Antonio Zapatero, announced at a press conference that new areas will be announced on Friday that will be under mobility restrictions, which implies that its residents cannot leave their neighborhoods except to go to work, to the doctor or to take the children to school.
Epidemiological data is still being “studied and analyzed” and the new areas will be announced Friday morning, said Zapatero, who admitted that Madrid “has a situation of sustained growth” of the epidemic.
Anyway, he insisted that it seeks to “avoid the confinement of Madrid” by “tragic consequences for economic and social sectors“, As happened between March and June when all Spaniards were under a tight confinement that allowed to control the first wave of the virus.
On Tuesday, the Spanish Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, recommended that all the inhabitants of the Madrid region, of 6.6 million inhabitants, limit their travel to the “essential”, since the situation in the capital is the “most worrying” in the country.
Madrid has accumulated more than 202,600 confirmed cases and 9,129 deaths during the pandemic, in both cases a third of the total in Spain (682,267 infections and 30,904 deaths).
The areas under mobility restrictions, where parks and bars and restaurants are also kept closed have limited capacity and hours, have an incidence in the last fourteen days of more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, tripling that of the whole of Spain .
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