There is no doubt that the complacent and almost offensive attitude with which Fernando Simón dispatched the communications of the medical associations on Thursday, which warned, given the increase in infections, of a new collapse of the health system, not even the Government liked . Almost at the same time that Simón said goodbye to the press "until Monday," the alarms must have sounded in Moncloa, which mobilized Minister Illa to urgently convene an extraordinary session of the Interterritorial Council considering the seriousness of the situation , contrary to the criteria of Simón, an official who long ago lost all credibility. In this sense, the constructive and responsible attitude of the Minister of Health must be valuedby summoning the regional representatives and agreeing with them, and unanimously, a battery of measures and recommendations applicable throughout the national territory. It seems that the arrogant and haughty spirit shown by the Government while the state of alarm lasted has given way to a desirable collaboration between the different administrations.

However, as the doctors pointed out in their writings, yesterday's meeting shows that the Government is once again behind the virus . If the main negligence committed in March was not anticipating the pandemic, now, once again, too much has been waited before acting, generating insecurity and uncertainty among citizens and tourists and creating a situation of high health risk. Since the entire country entered the so-called new normality, infections and admissions to hospitals and ICUs have not stopped growing, overwhelming certain autonomous communities that had been demanding coordination by the Ministry and the implementation of mandatory measures in the entire territory, since the virus does not understand administrative borders. Those agreed yesterday are aimed at detecting infections through PCR tests and slowing down the spread of infections in public places - which according to the data provided by the communities increased by 2,987 cases in the last 24 hours - but do not include others such as investment in the hiring of trackers , essential to limit new outbreaks, or investment plans that provide more resources to public health. As the doctors warn, Spain cannot allow itself to fall into the same mistakes of the past and must put all the necessary means to face the second wave of the pandemic, which runs the risk of worsening from September with the start of the course school.

Among the 11 measures and three recommendations announced yesterday, perhaps the most controversial is the closure of discos, dance halls and cocktail bars . Unlike what happens with restaurants and terraces, the Government has not offered any alternative to these entrepreneurs, who are forced to close their businesses, in a measure of doubtful legality that will have to be elucidated in the courts, after These hospitality entrepreneurs will announce imminent lawsuits in all the autonomous communities.

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