(Madrid) The region of the Spanish capital Madrid announced measures on Tuesday to try to curb the resumption of the COVID epidemic – 07 such as strengthening the compulsory nature of the mask and limiting gatherings to ten people.
Posted on 28 July 2020 at 7am 41
France Media Agency
The announcement of these measures comes as the number of cases has jumped recently in Spain, leading France and Germany to advise against travel to the most affected regions of the country and the United Kingdom to restore a quarantine for travelers returning from Spain.
“The key now is not to have to confine ourselves again,” the president of the Madrid region, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, told reporters.
The region has decided in particular, as has already done almost all the Spanish regions which have also imposed other types of restrictions, to impose the wearing of the mask in the street and “on the terraces” even when a safety distance of 1.5 m can be observed.
The mask is already compulsory throughout the country from the age of six when this distance cannot be maintained.
In addition, meetings must be limited to ten people on café terraces or in private homes, as during the first phase of deconfinement.
Terraces and nightclubs and bars must finally close at 1 a.m. 28 in the morning. Customers will need to register there so that they can be easily found in the event of an outbreak of contagion in the establishment.
Madrid is so far less affected than Catalonia or Aragon, but the authorities have decided to anticipate by having ready two pavilions of the trade fair, which had served as a field hospital in March-April , in order to send new COVID patients there – 19.
Spain, which officially counts more than 28 400 deaths from the pandemic, has seen jump in recent weeks the number of cases.
Due to this resumption of the epidemic, France recommended Friday to its nationals to avoid going to Catalonia while Germany on Tuesday advised against “non-essential” and tourist trips to Aragon , Catalonia and Navarre.
London for its part re-established Sunday a two-week quarantine for all travelers returning from the second largest tourist destination in the world. A measure criticized Monday evening by the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez according to whom certain Spanish regions such as the Balearics or the Canaries are “safer than the United Kingdom”.
