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In the most critical areas, affected by this partial tightening of restrictions in the Spanish capital region, residents will only be able to leave their neighborhoods to work, go to the doctor or take their children to school.
According to the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, infections are occurring, above all, “in the private sphere.” The person in charge avoided using the noun lockdown describe the decisions taken in the last hours, preferring to speak of “mobility restriction measures”.It is the responsibility of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to announce the exceptional measures that will cover 858 thousand of the inhabitants of the region and that will be in force, for the moment, for 14 days.
Ayuso stressed, at the same time, that it is necessary to “avoid at all costs the economic disaster” of a total closure in some of the neighborhoods of Madrid, since the number two of the community health department arrived last Wednesday.
“The virus is everyone’s business,” added the regional government official, to later recall that, in the neighborhoods most affected by infections, the contagion rate is at least a thousand cases per 100,000 inhabitants: “A very serious figure ”.
“We detected 37 areas where the incidence is much higher, with a thousand infections per 100 thousand inhabitants, a very serious figure”Dias Ayuso said. “By not acting we run the risk of it spreading throughout Madrid and we have time to avoid it.”
Daniela Santiago, RTP correspondent in Madrid
The president of the regional executive indicated that “measures will also be taken to ensure that the quarantines are complied with.”
“The state of alarm must be avoided by all means. Difficult weeks are approaching, difficult times. If we all row in the same direction, it will be easier “, wrinkled.
Madrid will also advance with “a diagnostic strategy” that includes “one million tests” for the screening of the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The Community of Madrid does not have an autonomous police, like Catalonia, for example. Therefore, it must request the support of the central government delegation, which supervises the National Police and the Civil Guard, with a view to monitoring compliance with the restrictions. The use of army resources is not excluded.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso will meet next Monday with the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez. The governor of Madrid promises to seek “a space for collaboration”, admitting that she needs the “force of the State”.
We need the help of the government of the nation and that is why we are very convinced that if we follow this line we will achieve it. The two administrations will work units so that contagions do not grow. The Government of Spain does not come to protect, but to collaborate with the Community of Madrid ”, he emphasized.
Spain reported 14,389 new cases of Covid-19 this Friday, two thousand more than the previous day. The total number of infected people in the neighboring country has risen to 640,040 since the start of the pandemic. The Spanish Ministry of Health recorded 90 more deaths in 24 hours, increasing the total to 30,495.
