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The Gregorio Marañón Hospital will be the reference center for the assistance of travelers who come to the Community of Madrid infected by Covid-19 or with suspicions that they are. In the case of those with mild symptoms and close contacts of positives who need to remain isolated, the nearby Hotel Ayre Gran Colón will be enabled, one of the 13 that were medicalized to refer less serious patients during the peak of the pandemic.

This is the "first comprehensive healthcare circuit for tourists" , according to EL MUNDO in the Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, promoter of a "key" initiative to "strengthen security" in the face of what they describe as "insufficient triple control »Established by the central Executive in Barajas. The objective is "to guarantee the public health of citizens and make it compatible with the revival of tourism", a sector that accounts for 6.5% of regional GDP.

The plan includes an information campaign also in English for the dissemination of the free telephone number for the Personalized Care Center of the Ministry of Health, 900 102 112 , a service that has been reinforced with bilingual staff. The posters - whose deployment has already begun - can be seen at the airport, in the Metro, in the bus shelters of the capital, in the transport interchanges and in taxis and VTC, in addition to being distributed in hotel establishments.

Community of Madrid campaign.

Since May 11, the Madrid Health Service has detected 40 "imported" infections through Barajas , eight of them since the borders reopened in the Schengen area on June 21. At Puerta del Sol, they have been warning for weeks that this was the "drain" through which the virus entered Spain at the beginning of the year and therefore they insist that travelers be required to carry out a PCR test 48 hours before Take the flight, a proposal that the Ministry of Transport rejects, arguing that "the recommendations established by the European authorities" are being applied.

Those who come from abroad have to fill out a form stating if they have suffered from the Covid-19 and, if applicable, specify under what conditions, in addition to providing a contact for a possible trace if it is detected that another passenger is infected. This first procedure is followed by a temperature control and a visual one that in the Community of Madrid consider "insufficient", so they have decided to implement their own action plan.

«We have been since mid-May requesting the Government of Pedro Sánchez an ambitious strategy for Barajas, 50 days offering to work together and they have not wanted to. We have reached out and offered proposals, but again the Sánchez government reacts again late and ineffectively », argue the Ayuso executive.

Self-assessment

The informational signage included in this regional plan has a QR code incorporated so that the traveler can access the CoronaMadrid app , which allows a self-assessment to be carried out to find out if they have symptoms compatible with the disease. It is available for Android and IOS in both Spanish and English.

This traveler care circuit has been prepared by the General Directorate of Public Health. Two months ago, President Ayuso already held a meeting with the Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization, Zurab Pololikashvili, with the aim of making the region "one of the world's top tourist destinations" with an anti-David protocol .

According to official data from the National Statistics Institute (INE), the Community of Madrid closed 2019 beating a new record of foreign visitors, after receiving 7.6 million , a figure that represents an increase of 7% over the previous year. Overall, they left 10,452 million euros in the region, 12.6% more than the previous year. In addition, it led the ranking of autonomies with the highest average total expenditure per tourist -1,368 euros-.

Madrid's proposal for Barajas

The Community of Madrid has asked the Ministry of Health to reconsider the obligation to establish negative PCR tests at origin, by the passenger, 48 hours before taking a flight, and that this measure be reciprocal for international flights departing from Spain.

In addition, the regional government has offered the plant to start up a Summa 112 device active 24 hours a day at the Barajas airport. This operation would be in charge of the care of patients detected by Foreign Health, to whom a test would be carried out, and subsequent transfer to those who require hospital care or to their home or medicalized hotel to perform the isolation.

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