Las Palmas de Gran Canaria continues to be the epicenter of the pandemic in the Archipelago. In fact, this municipality concentrates almost 60% of active cases for Covid-19 in the Canary Islands with 1,444 positives of the total 2504. That is why the town hall has decided to approve this week several measures focused on areas with the highest risk of contagion such as beaches. And it is there that in recent days there have been agglomerations of young people without respecting the minimum interpersonal distance and without wearing masks.
To put an end to it, the consistory has limited sports practice on the promenade, the use of sand in sectors such as La Cícer, and has reinforced the security system of the Local Police, even with plainclothes agents who ensure compliance with the sanitary standards. In addition, this Thursday it is expected that in Governing Council gives the green light to another battery of measures that try to stop the spread of the coronavirus in these places of special incidence.
However, if these new restrictions do not take effect, there are already experts who put on the table the possibility of adopting more comprehensive measures such as “selective confinements”. It has been assured by Cadena SER the spokesperson for the Scientific Committee that advises the Government of the Canary Islands on the health crisis. Luis Serra MajemAlthough he maintains some optimism because in the coming days the expansion of the coronavirus in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria will be able to calm down, he does assert that its epidemiological situation is “critical” and believes that the increased mobility of some residents in this municipality to others such as San Bartolomé de Tirajana could put other places that currently have a low level of contagion at risk.
A thesis to which the Chief of Epidemiology of the SCS, Amós García Rojas, who appeals to individual responsibility to reverse this scenario. “We have time to improve the situation, but if we can’t more powerful measures will have to be taken“, has pointed out in the SER. Of course, García Rojas does not consider that the number of positives registered in the capital of Gran Canaria makes it necessary to request the Government of Spain to declare the state of alarm again in this municipality or on the island, as Pedro Sánchez offered yesterday to the Autonomous Communities.
Selective confinements, or also called surgical, have been applied in some localities, regions, or municipalities of the country after the end of the state of alarm last June. But,what exactly is this resource and how is it applied? This isolation by specific territories, which is included in the General Health Law and that of Special Public Health Measures, can be approved directly by the regional government Y It is not only applicable to municipalities. Also to districts, neighborhoods, buildings or even residences for the elderly, if necessary.
Selective confinement, beyond inability to leave home except for duly justified cases such as going to the doctor, the pharmacy or to acquire essential goods, also implies that to carry it out, the Security Forces can be used with the support of a judge.
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