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The effect of the battery of measures taken by the Government to fight against the coronavirus will not be seen until about 9-10 days and the end of the transmission is not expected until two months in the best case and within 4-5 months in the worst case scenario. This has been said by the director of the Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón, in his daily appearance in which he acknowledged that "we are in a very different situation than a few days ago."

Simon has appealed to individual and corporate responsibility to fulfill the spirit of the measures that have been taken to prevent the spread of the disease "even when there are legal ways to breach these measures." He has also encouraged parents to take care of children who can no longer go to closed schools in Madrid, Vitoria and La Rioja "because even the official bulletins of the autonomous communities already allow this option " and that will help protect this especially vulnerable elderly population.

The same has been said about transport: "We have not closed any autonomy but it is everyone's individual responsibility to prevent [codvid-19] from arriving and spreading in areas that are not so affected right now, " as Madrid, La Rioja, Basque Country and Catalonia, which concentrate 78% of confirmed cases.

Madrid, the most contagious concentrates

Simón, who has detailed that 2,002 positive ones have already been achieved in coronavirus, half of them in the Community of Madrid, and 47 deaths have been registered (31 in Madrid). Although the growth of cases compared to yesterday (just over 300) is similar to that which occurred between Monday and Tuesday, Simón has acknowledged that Madrid hospitals and their ICUs, because so many older people have been infected, are in a situation important stress "which does not help the perception of lack of material that professionals are having."

However, he said that precisely today "trucks with supplies should arrive that will avoid the risk of imminent shortage of protective equipment that was within 2-3 days . These supplies will give us some margin, I would not know how to say still how much, but probably enough "to start supplying us with equipment from China" that increased production and no longer needs so many . "

In addition, measures would already be taken to relocate patients "because not all hospitals are having the same pressure in Madrid and it is also studied to enable some facilities that could function as ICUs."

This is the first time that Simón shuffles dates on the evolution of the epidemic, remembering that "once we detect the last case, we will have to wait another two incubation periods" to be able to decree that end of the epidemic although "something else will be what happens next winter, "he has suggested.

Among the dates that he was considering, Simón has said that the effects of the measures adopted will not be noticed (closing of schools and senior centers, prohibition of mass events) up to 9-10 days "and during that period it is very important that the population don't relax so we can effectively see that effect. " With a visible face of skepticism, he has said that "in the best case we will stop seeing transmission in two months" and with a visibly more confident face he has talked about the worst of the scenarios that would place us in "about four to five months".

Latest figures

At the end of Simon's press conference, the Ministry of Health has sent the official coronavirus contagion data count. There are 2,109 cases, one hundred more than those that Simón counted shortly before, led by the Community of Madrid (1,024 cases), Basque Country (225), La Rioja (179), Catalonia (156), Andalusia (71), Castilla-La Mancha (71), Castilla y León (71), Valencia (65), Navarra (46), Aragón (45), Galicia (39), Canary Islands (37), Asturias (32), Balearic Islands (16), Cantabria (12) ), Murcia (11) and Extremadura (9).

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