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The Ministry of Health and the communities are analyzing this afternoon a plan of
"shared"
measures
for the Easter holidays to avoid a new upsurge in the coronavirus pandemic, as has happened in other indicated periods in which mobility increases and social contacts.
They will do so in a new meeting of the Interterritorial Health Council in which the central and
regional governments will share their positions on the restrictions
that must be implemented on those dates.
Restrictions that the Public Health Commission will translate into a document "of shared actions" so that citizens know, "weeks before Easter, what can be done and what not," as revealed last Wednesday by the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias.
The Ministry of Health advocates
prolonging some of the current restrictions at Easter
, such as maintaining the perimeter closure of the communities in March and April or the limits to mobility, until the objective of reducing the accumulated incidence below 50 cases is achieved. .
The position of the Ministry technicians was already advanced by the director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES), Fernando Simón, who stressed that the
reopening of the autonomous borders should not even be considered
if the conditions are not met.
"I am an epidemiologist, I am interested in controlling the epidemic, and obviously my visions are different from those that may have, for example, businessmen. If the transmission conditions are not correct so that you can have a little more openness, I think that It should not even be raised, "he settled.
In Health they pursue a clear objective, and that is that the incidence falls below 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and, to this end, in the words of Darias, they are "focused on preserving health and continuing to save lives."
So he reiterated his call "to prudence, responsibility and common sense. We are on the right track, but
we cannot trust ourselves
. We are in the process of vaccination, picking up pace and it is important that it goes well."
Autonomous division
The intention of the Ministry that the communities remain closed perimeter at Easter has already divided the autonomies: in
Madrid they prefer to adopt "sensible and balanced" measures
, depending on the evolution of the pandemic, to protect the health of citizens and not compromise the "battered" economy, in the words of its president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
But in
Castilla-La Mancha
, according to their Health Minister, Jesús Fernández Sanz, they are in favor of adopting
national
measures
because when it has been done, "it has gone well."
And he has opined that if the central government's bet is that the autonomous communities adhere to the perimeter closure in March and April, including Easter, it seems to him a "very good measure," because "it allows mobility to be less", of so that if low mobility is maintained, the incidence can be kept down.
The Junta de
Castilla y León
has responded to the Madrid position by asking
"to apply a criterion of prudence and that it be homogeneous"
throughout the national territory, according to the Minister of the Presidency of the regional government, Ángel Ibáñez.
Also the head of the Government of
Cantabria
, Miguel Ángel Revilla, has asked the president, Pedro Sánchez, to summon his counterparts in the autonomous communities to try to
reach a consensus on a position throughout the country on the restrictions
and their possible relaxation for Semana Santa
From
Murcia
, Fernando López Miras has shown his concern that the measures are relaxed at a time when health personnel are exhausted and with
"a fourth wave that is knocking at the door
.
"
The
Andalusian
Minister
of Health, Jesús Aguirre, also opts for prudence in de-escalation of restrictions in the face of the expansion of the British variant and the "plateau phase" that the contagion curve currently has:
"A quick opening can then lead us to a stoppage in its tracks, "he
warned.
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