Marina Artusa
04/26/2020 - 12:08
- Clarín.com
- World
In times of coronavirus, Madrid had become unaccustomed to this chirping of chicks, to this infantile sizzle that in the days without plague was a premonition of gps: they anticipated the proximity to a plaza or the exit of a school. This Sunday, from early, the laughter and the pasty rumor of the friction of the skateboard wheels on the sidewalk intruded on the kingdom of desolation that has governed Spanish cities for a month and a half. For the first time since the state of alarm took over our movements, back on March 14, children up to the age of 14 were able to go for a walk.
The permit is addressed to about six million boys, most of whom went out to eat the field. As the hours passed, however, criticism of several parents for not respecting the rules of distancing grew. Photos of different parts of Spain too populated for what is recommended in the Covid era circulated through social networks. The images were accompanied by a "# irresponsible".
“ All this does not give me security . I think it is a measure that has been a bit of the result of popular pressure. This romantic current has generated that children have to go out into the street, ”Chema Cebrián, father of eleven boys between a year and a half and 15, who were infected and have already recovered, told Clarín. If I am not sure that all my children are negative and that we are not going to infect anyone, I think we are not going to leave the house yet. Also, if they can't play with their friends, go to the park or see their cousins, this thing about the walk is a bit boring. They do not see attractive to that to walk to walk. ”
The earliest risers were the smallest that started at 9, the first time allowed. Boys can stay up to an hour away from home per day.
Accompanied by one of their parents or by an adult with a signed authorization from their parents, children can walk a kilometer from the door of their homes. Each older person is allowed to accompany up to three children and the possible time for these first outdoor puffs is until nine at night.
Boys with chinstraps and gloves -health authorities recommend them but it is not obligatory- and amazed parents taking photos with their cell phones, with that emotion of the first time they saw them not lose their balance to take two steps, were the latter's postcard day of the third extension of the state of alarm in Spain.
And although the fourth quarantine extension that begins on Monday will last, for now, until May 9, the coalition government led by the Social Democrat Pedro Sánchez has already announced that it will begin to loosen the containment measures.
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This, the first, coincides with the day on which Spain recorded the lowest number of deaths from coronavirus in 24 hours in a month: 288 deaths, which, although weighing on spirits, are an indicator that the epidemic is ceasing to spread to the next best.
According to the Ministry of Health, in one day 1,729 positive cases diagnosed by PCR and 1,141 new infections detected with rapid tests were confirmed. In total, infected people total 227,000.
As authorized by the Spanish government, each parent can go out with a maximum of three children. EFE
"If the evolution of the pandemic continues in a positive sense as it is doing so far, starting on May 2, it will be allowed to go out for individual physical activity and walks with the people we live with, always in the conditions that we mark the health authorities, ”said Pedro Sánchez in a televised message on Saturday night.
And he clarified that during May, Spain will immerse itself in the transition towards a new normality, an opening that will be gradual, asymmetric - because not all the territories will do it at the same time - but under the same rules.
Although celebrated and welcomed, the first measure of thawing the confinement was not implemented calmly. The President announced that the outings would be allowed for children under 12. Immediately the age was corrected - they would be boys up to 14 years old - and it was clarified that these outings involved only accompanying an adult in any of the activities allowed by the state of alarm. : go to the supermarket, the pharmacy or the bank.
And rubble rained down on the ad. The tide of criticism was based on the fact that there was no point in allowing the boys to leave indoors and possible sources of contagion. "This is a government that listens," said the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, trying to change course. Children under the age of 14 may take walks. ”
In many cities, parks and gardens are closed and games are tied with seals that prohibit their use. In those condominiums with shared gardens and spaces, the boys will be able to play according to the internal rules of each home. Health authorities insist on keeping the distance of two meters and not playing with other children.
To walk on the street, children can bring their own toys. Balls, skateboards, skates and bikes were the favorites this Sunday.
A family walks the Diagonal in Barcelona this Sunday, the 43rd day of alarm. (EFE)
In the coastal cities , promenades and beaches were enabled so that the boys could spend their time outdoors there. But it is still forbidden to bathe in the sea as well as to use children's games.
In Madrid, the esplanade of the Nuevos Ministerios, next to the Castellana, became a soccer field this Sunday, where parents and children played as before the game.
Adults and children at the Sardinero beach in Santander, this Sunday. (EFE)
The cement, long and smooth from the entrance to several of the government ministries, was also a prized area for boys and girls on bikes and skates. A light aroma of pitch perfumed La Castellana, one of the many streets and avenues in Madrid that the quarantine allowed to re-asphalt without generating traffic congestion.
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Watch the specialNot all the boys celebrated the possibility of leaving the protective shield of the house. "I do not want. I'm scared, ”insisted a 9-year-old Argentine girl who moved to Madrid a little while ago. "I'm going to go out again when they find the cure for the coronavirus," he argued. It took hours to convince her. The voices of other boys heard from the balcony finally decided her. "I like it," he admitted on the way home . I hardly remembered what the trees in our neighborhood were like. ”