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The minister of Health, Salvador Illago right now generalized confinement unnecessary of the population, as occurred in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as Nor does it see viable a “perimeter confinement” of Madrid due to the increase in infections.
“Now the perimeter confinement of Madrid does not proceed”, Illa said in an interview in Ser Catalunya when asked about the statements of the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, who said yesterday that 80% of the cases of community infections come “from the radioactive viral bomb that was planted in Madrid“.
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The minister explained that important conurbations, such as Barcelona or Madrid, are spaces where measures to contain the virus “have to be very well thought out”, but he stressed that, in general, “a good job is being done everywhere.”
Thus, although there is a sustained increase in cases of coronavirus in all communities, except in Aragon, which is in decline, and Catalonia, this situation is not translating into hospital pressure like the one that existed in March and April, in a state of alarm.
“We are in a control scenario. We must detect cases and act with speed and forcefulness to break the transmission chains,” said Illa, who believes that now it is not convenient to apply generalized measures and that no one should take the implementation of regionalized measures or local as a “sign.”
In this sense, he has stated that at this time, attending to public health criteria, does not see the need for a generalized confinement in Spain.
“We are seeing an increase in cases, but has no point of comparison with what we lived in March, there is no system saturation. Specific actions must be taken, as we are doing, “the Health Minister stressed, who remarked that”there is no contradiction between economics and public health“.
Regarding the start of the school year, Salvador Illa has reaffirmed that classes will be able to start normally in September and that if there is a case of contagion, how to react is already planned.
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