Madrid and Barcelona will not pass the phase and Galicia is considering requesting the new normality | Economy

The Community of Madrid will not ask to advance ahead of time to the last phase of the de-escalation on Monday or to ease phase 2 measures. This was confirmed by the vice president of the regional Executive, Ignacio Aguado, at the press conference after the Governing Council . “The possibility of moving to phase 3 has not been evaluated for various reasons. We have already made several requests to relax phase 2, which have not been met, and as of June 21 the state of alarm will decline, and with it the phases. We have to be prepared to assume again all the regional powers, avoid flare-ups and reactivate the economy, “explained Aguado.

The regional government thus opts for prudence, and decides to continue in phase 2 without requesting easing measures that will be requested for the next phase. The Community of Madrid will skip stage 3 and enter the “new normal” from June 21, when the alarm state expires. This decision is made after a debate that lasted several days. The regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, assured on Monday that her government was not considering asking for the move to phase 3 while her Health Minister, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, declared that Madrid “firmly” contemplated asking between Monday and Tuesday to advance a week the last stage of the de-escalation.

Castilla y León, however, has asked to anticipate phase 3 a week ahead of time with limitations on interprovincial mobility. The Generalitat will also request it for its territory even in the intermediate stage, leaving out the health areas of Barcelona and Lleida that will continue in phase 2 for one more week with the Community of Madrid. The Junta de Castilla-La Mancha has requested the last stage of the de-escalation for its three provinces in phase 2, Albacete, Ciudad Real and Toledo. The Valencian Community and Ceuta, who decided not to request a phase change a week ago, will ask to start phase 3 on Monday 15.

Of the 52% of the country’s population in the last stage of the de-escalation, only those who live in Galicia could advance ahead of time to the “new normal” phase next week. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the president of the Xunta, confirmed yesterday that he will propose on Friday at the meeting of the Government Council to cancel the state of alarm as of Monday, as long as the epidemiological situation is kept under control. “We have been the Autonomous Community with the lowest contagion rate in Spain for more than 7 days. This makes us have founded hopes that next Friday we will cancel the state of alarm. I will propose it as the government’s delegated authority,” he said. Feijóo.

“The evolution of the epidemic in Galicia is really good, they have developed very positive detection systems,” explained Fernando Simón, director of the Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, who also added that advancing to the new normal phase it will not have much effect on the region. “If it is only Galicia that goes to new normality without other communities being in that phase, mobility between the regions is not feasible.” Simón has insisted that, although the Health technical team will have to assess his epidemiological report to make the final decision, “Galicia is doing an excellent job.”

Although the Basque Country does not value advancing to the new normal, it does consider allowing mobility between its region and Cantabria, Navarra and La Rioja, although an outbreak in a health center in Bilbao has cooled the intention of the Government of the Basque Country to advance in de-escalation. . Fernando Simón, the director of the Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, warned yesterday that we must wait for adequate incubation periods to ensure that the outbreak has not generated community transmission and, thus, ensure its control. In any case, to be able to move between autonomous communities, “the governments have to request it, the two communities have to be in the same phase and both have to agree to authorize that mobility,” said Simón.

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