Spain: Madrid in Closure - Army Called for Assistance Israel today

Cabinet calls on residents of other parts of the country not to come to the capital due to the eruption of the corona • Prime Minister: "We have difficult weeks ahead"

• Police forces in Madrid // Photo: AFP

State of emergency in Spain: The government today (Monday) ordered to tighten the closure in the capital Madrid and asked the rest of the country not to come to the capital, this after the number of newly infected people diagnosed in the last day in the European country stands at over 10,000 people. 

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called on the army to assist the large metropolis in quarantine and said: "We need the help of the army in disinfection, in setting up temporary medical facilities and in assisting police forces in enforcing the quarantine." 

Madrid district chairwoman Isabel Diaz Asoyo said makeshift hospitals that had closed during the months of the recession in the spread of the disease in the country should be re-established.

Osuyo met with Prime Minister Sanchez for a special emergency meeting at which traffic restrictions were discussed over the capital's 850,000 citizens. 

Osuyo said she knows the residents are angry but they are cooperating and the closure is well enforced.

Maria, a resident of the area where the closure was announced, told Reuters that: "The closure is terrible, people travel on the metro during the day, crowded like sardines, because it is forbidden to drive cars, I do not see how it is going to help fight the virus." 

More than 650,000 people have been infected with the corona virus in Spain, the highest figure in Western Europe.

30,495 people have died so far from the disease across the country.