The central and Madrid governments have reached a “principle of agreement” to try to contain the expansion of the coronavirus during the COVID-19 Group meeting held this Tuesday afternoon between both administrations, according to sources familiar with the meeting.
In municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, “a homogeneous criterion has been agreed to apply in the Community of Madrid and in the rest of Spain”.
For municipalities with less than 100,000 inhabitants, it will be the autonomous communities that will make the decision on possible restrictions “taking into account the regulations and protocols at the state level.”
The same sources specify that “the effective application of these criteria” in the Community of Madrid is at the expense of their approval at the meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System of Spain this Wednesday.
“Technical criteria”
In this regard, sources from the Government of the Community of Madrid have indicated that both administrations have begun to continue negotiating “the technical criteria to take measures to restrict mobility and activity in the face of the evolution of the coronavirus.”
In the Interterritorial Council, the Community of Madrid will forward its proposal that there be “a single criterion for all the autonomous communities”, that PCR of origin be carried out “for greater security” at the Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas Airport and “a reinforcement” at the RENFE and AVE train controls.
The principle of agreement has arrived at the third meeting of the COVID-19 Group held this afternoon, which lasted about two hours.
The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa; the Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Function, Carolina Darias; the vice president and spokesperson for the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Aguado; and the Madrid Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero.
The creation of this group was the only concrete agreement reached between the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, at the meeting held on September 21, where they made calls for unity.
However, later both administrations publicly aired their differences on how to control the pandemic in the Community of Madrid.
In fact, the meeting held this Monday between the Minister of Health and the Madrid councilor ended without an agreement.
The national government continued to demand the implementation of mobility restrictions for areas with an accumulated incidence of 500 cases of coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, which would include the entire capital.
For its part, the regional government defended the mobility restrictions that it has implemented in a total of 45 health zones with three requirements, including a cumulative incidence of 1,000 cases of coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants, and advocated also taking into account the healthcare capacity to take action.
Municipalities
This is the list of Spanish municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants:
1. Madrid
2. Barcelona
3. Valencia
4. Sevilla
5. Zaragoza
6. Málaga
7. Murcia
8. Palma
9. Las Palmas
10. Bilbao
11. Alicante
12. Córdoba
13. Valladolid
14. Vigo
15. Gijón
16. Hospitalet de Llobregat
17. Vitoria
18. La Coruña
19. Elche
20. Granada
21. Tarrasa
22. Badalona
23. Oviedo
24. Cartagena
25. Sabadell
26. Jerez de la Frontera
27. Móstoles
28. Santa Cruz de Tenerife
29. Pamplona
30. Almeria
31. Alcalá de Henares
32. Fuenlabrada
33. Leganés
34. San Sebastian
35. Getafe
36. Burgos
37. Albacete
38. Santander
39. Castellón de la Plana
40 .Alcorcón
41. San Cristóbal de La Laguna
42. Logroño
43. Badajoz
44. Salamanca
45. Huelva
46. Marbella
47. Lleida
48. Tarragona
49. Two Sisters
50. Torrejón de Ardoz
51. Speak
52. Mataró
53. Leon
54. Algeciras
55. Santa Coloma de Gramanet
56. Alcobendas
57. Cádiz
58. Jaén
59. Orense
60. Reus
61. Counted
62. Girona
63. Baracaldo
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