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Starting at 10:00 p.m. on Friday, new regulations adopted by the government came into force in Spain to limit the spread of the coronavirus epidemic. Madrid and nine other cities in the autonomous community of Madrid, the most affected in the entire country, have been “closed”: in total almost 4.8 million people – inhabitants of the capital and Fuenlabrada, Parla, Alcobendas, Torrejón de Ardoz , Getafe, Alcorcón, Leganés, Móstoles and Alcalá de Henares – they can no longer leave their urban centers, unless they have essential reasons (work, school and health, among others: but Spanish newspapers say that there are several exceptions to the prohibition ).
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The new restrictions, which also apply to entry, are a second and partial closure decided by the Pedro Sánchez government to deal with the so-called “second wave” of the epidemic, and were adopted despite the enormous tensions that have emerged in recent days between the prime minister. Española (left) and the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso (right).
The closure was imposed in areas that in the last two weeks had registered more than 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a rate of positive swabs over the total exceeding 10 percent and 35 percent of the intensive care places occupied by COVID patients. -19. Ten municipalities in the Community of Madrid were in this situation. In addition to prohibiting travel to and from these areas, the new measures have limited additions to a maximum of six people, cut the capacity of shops and clubs in half, anticipated the closure of bars and restaurants at 11:00 p.m. and they limited the number of participants in religious functions.
On Friday, Madrid was once again the large Spanish city with the highest incidence of cases per 100,000 inhabitants (647.91) in the previous two weeks, the one that registered the highest number of people with COVID-19 admitted to hospitals (3,561) and people hospitalized in intensive care (513). The number of ICU beds available in the capital’s hospitals, wrote the country, is 641 (500 in public facilities, 141 in private facilities): this means that on Friday in Madrid 80 percent of the available places were occupied.
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Since Wednesday the regional government, led by Ayuso, has publicly criticized the measures taken by the central government of Sánchez. After threatening not to comply with the rules of the new confinement, Ayuso changed his mind but added that he would still have an appeal in court. The regional government’s proposal, not accepted by Sánchez, was to introduce differentiated measures for the 21 areas into which the capital is divided, in order to guarantee greater freedom to the least affected districts.
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