Pedro Sánchez took advantage of another videoconference yesterday with the regional presidents to announce that, once the slowdown in the number of infections has been confirmed and after the pressure in the emergency department has stabilized, the fight against the coronavirus passes into a new phase: isolation of the asymptomatic positives. It was time for the president to embrace a strategy that has worked successfully in other countries, such as South Korea . The Government has requested the communities to provide it with a list of infrastructures to house people who are carriers of the Covid-19 but do not suffer symptoms. Early detection is an effective method to stop the transmission of the pathogen. The fact that it assumes the need to implement this strategy demonstrates the unpredictability and negligence of an Executive who rejected five WHO alerts since January 30, when Health takes over the powers of public health surveillance. "We have enough material" was Salvador Illa's arrogant response to the multilateral organization's warning of the risk of shortages. This irresponsibility is being paid by Spain cruelly. It is already the second country in the world -only behind the US- with the highest number of infected and the one with the most doctors (14,000) infected.

Both the WHO and the European Union, as EL MUNDO revealed, warned before 8-M of the potential lethality of the pandemic and of the urgent need to stock up on medical supplies. Sánchez ignored both. And, putting ideology before management, he kept the calendar to preserve that manifestation. Losing so much time in the fight against the pandemic is what has later caused the alarming shortage of protective equipment for restrooms. The Government is now open to isolating the asymptomatic, which is a late rectification . However, the imminent arrival of a million tests announced by Illa is insufficient. The practice of massive tests on the population is required. A technique, as Pablo Casado stressed in the interview we published yesterday, that does not require the closure of economic activity. Furthermore, the return of immunized young people to their jobs should be accelerated.

Despite Sánchez's extensive speeches on TVE and his blatant will to extend sine die the powers conferred by the state of alarm, the Government continues to offer signs of being overwhelmed by the magnitude of the health, social and economic emergency. The sacrifice of citizens in confinement must be matched by effective crisis management and not by the chaos of an overflowing single command.

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