The Government does not rule out the closure of borders and is already addressing it with the EU

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Once the declaration of a state of alarm has been issued, the government does not rule out reaching the closure of borders and has already addressed it within the EU. In a late afternoon appearance in La Moncloa of the four ministers with powers at the moment - Interior, Defense, Health and Transport - Fernando Grande-Marlaska was the first of them, who assured that the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, today maintained "different contacts with other Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Twenty-seven",

"Coordination and adopting common positions is essential to fight the coronavirus," he said, after learning today that Germany has decreed the closure of its border crossings, Marlaska has announced that a meeting of interior ministers will be held tomorrow. the EU by videoconference "where we will talk about this issue and the need to take measures" in order to guarantee public health.

The minister reiterated the idea that has become the government's mantra, in the face of uncertainty about the evolution of this gigantic health crisis: "The necessary and precise measures will be taken at the right time to protect our citizens and European citizens."

Possible border decisions would be made after the EU's interior and health ministers meet tomorrow. "It has been working for two days and the president is pressing the state of situation and the need to coordinate"

In the Presidents Conference this morning between Sánchez and the regional leaders, the chief executive has not ruled out the measure.

The four ministers have appeared to announce some of the decisions taken in the last hours. Among them Salvador Illa has announced an order to put under the command of the Health advisers of the autonomous communities all the private health facilities so that they have them "as they consider best", as well as the extension of the hiring of resident doctors for cover the necessary squares.

The counselors may also enable spaces for sanitary use in public or private premises that meet the conditions to provide care in consultation or hospitalization.

It is also authorized, on a transitional basis, the hiring of personnel with a health degree or bachelor's degree without a specialist title in cases in which the MIR selective tests have been approved and do not have a post or a specialist title outside the EU and that are being processed with a favorable assessment.

To ensure the availability of necessary goods and services, another approved order establishes that, since its publication in the BOE, that those who have medical products in their premises, such as masks, PCR kits for diagnosis, gloves, gowns, hydroalcoholic solutions, mechanical ventilation devices have the obligation to inform the Ministry of Health within 48 hours

It will also be mandatory for companies with the capacity to manufacture these products to inform the Ministry. Illa has warned that failure to comply with these obligations will carry penalties.

In the remote press conference that was held after the intervention of the ministers, it has been a recurring question if the Government fears that the president of the Generalitta, Quim, Torra, will go free after his defense that he will take the measures that it considers appropriate against the coronavirus and its refusal to sign the joint communiqué of the Executive and the autonomies with which the Conference of Presidents has concluded.

The Minister of Health has assured that "the Government is sure that everyone will act with criteria of unity." "Everyone is going to understand that message and follow these criteria," he said.

But Margarita Robles has also taken the floor below to address Torra with rather harsher words. "When necessary and essential, we will proceed" to the deployment of military personnel in any enclave throughout the Spanish territory, he has warned. After assuring that whoever in this health crisis "makes a purely political approach, does not deserve to be called political responsible" because the "priority of all, without exception, is the health of each of the citizens."

"I do not conceive," said the defense minister, that Torra gets out of the action unit and is "far behind" the Catalan citizens themselves. "This is not a political issue" and that forces "leaving other approaches aside." "I do not conceive that position and if it were, it is someone who has to be left out of public life," he stressed,

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