Dramatic situation in corona crisis region Madrid: government calls on military and doctors - and tougher measures

In view of the worsening situation, the Spanish government has sent soldiers and doctors to Madrid.

New restrictions are to be announced on Friday.

• The corona situation * in the Spanish capital is precarious in view of the increasing number of new infections.

• The government has now sent

  doctors

  ,

  police officers

  and

  soldiers

  to Madrid.

• A complete cordoning off of the region is considered “the last chance” to get the situation under control.

Update from September 28, 2020:

Spain's capital

struggling with a

.

More than 700 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants are recorded in the capital region every day.

In Germany, 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants are considered the critical mark.

Nationwide, 700,000 infections and 31,000 Covid-19 deaths have been registered in Spain since the beginning of the pandemic.

The regional government of

has

further expanded

the measures to contain a new

: The new exit restrictions for 167,000 more people have been in effect since Monday morning.

In total, more than a million inhabitants of the greater

affected.

According to the regulations enacted last week, the affected residents of the metropolitan region are only allowed to leave their neighborhoods to go to work, school or to the doctor.

However, people are allowed to move freely within their districts.

The police check compliance with the restrictions on a random basis.

The lower-income suburbs of Madrid are particularly hard hit.

There have been protests against the renewed partial lockdown for days.

For the central government,

however

, the

do not go far enough; it is pushing for even more

The obligation of the region be it the spread of the

to stop in cooperation with the central government, said Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya on Monday in Antena 3. Health policy is in Spain matter of regional governments.

Our initial report from September 24, 2020: Dramatic situation in the corona crisis region Madrid: Government calls on military and doctors

Madrid - In view of the dramatic increase in

in the Spanish capital

, the regional government has "urgently"

requested

as well as additional

and

from outside.

The military is needed for logistical tasks, the police officers should help enforce restrictions on freedom of movement.

And the doctors would be needed to treat the sick, reported the newspaper

on Thursday, citing the regional government. 

Corona crisis region Madrid: parts of the Spanish capital cordoned off

With almost

and more than

Spain is the

country in Western Europe hardest hit by the pandemic.

A third of all second wave infections are currently in Madrid.

Since Monday, 37 areas in six districts and in seven municipalities in the surrounding area with a total of around

partially cordoned off.

However, people are allowed to leave their residential areas to get to work, school, the doctor or a court summons on often overcrowded public transport, so that experts consider the measures to be inefficient. 

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A police officer in the Spanish capital, Madrid.

© Manu Fernandez / dpa

Regional

announced further restrictions that are not further explained

for Friday

.

Because of the economic consequences, she describes a closure of the entire capital region with 6.6 million inhabitants only as “a last resort”.

The Spanish professor of epidemiology at Harvard University and advisor to the government, Miguel Hernán, considers this to be hardly avoidable.

The

are almost completely occupied again, he warned.

Without sufficient capacity to diagnose, track, and monitor isolation and quarantine, all that remained was new curfews.

“Anyone who is in

today should not only

avoid

a

*, but also try not to have a heart attack or a car accident or to require other surgical interventions.

The intensive care units are full, ”warned the doctor.

(dpa / fmü)

List of rubric lists: © Manu Fernandez / dpa