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The central government will distribute between this Monday and Tuesday 1.4 million masks to professionals who return to work in the Community of Madrid, a distribution that will take place between 6:00 and 9:00 in the "main exchangers and points of access "to public transportation in the region.

This has been communicated by letter to the Government Delegation in the region, in charge of organizing the device, which emphasizes reminding the population that this protection is aimed at people who have to use public transport to travel to their places of job.

As EL MUNDO has learned, both in the Madrid Municipal Police and in various Civil Protection groups, which will have to collaborate in the distribution, there is unease at the "improvisation" with which this distribution has been planned . In fact, they specify that they have not been informed until this afternoon of a task that begins in just a few hours.

The National Police will be located mainly at the entrances to the 16 modal interchange stations and railway stations with the largest influx of passengers, such as Atocha, Chamartín, Nuevos Ministerios, Sol, Príncipe Pío or Méndez Álvaro. The Municipal Police and Civil Protection will be in the rest of the Metro stops and in the bus network of the Municipal Transport Company (EMT).

As indicated by the Government Delegation, the Madrid Federation of Municipalities (FMM) "is coordinating" the distribution points of the masks, particularly in those towns that lack a railway network, reports Efe.

Specifically, Madrid will be responsible for 1,416,000 masks of the 10 million that the Government is going to distribute throughout Spain to workers who return to their professional activity and who need transportation systems in which it is difficult to maintain the recommended safety distance to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

This same Sunday, the Community of Madrid has criticized the "improvisation" of the Government and its delay in providing "written instructions" on how to proceed with the distribution of the material.

In addition, as Efe explained to sources from the regional Executive, they have proposed that the Army be in charge of this distribution, so as not to assign troops to the same force as the local police, who are "overturned" in the supply of material to residences of older .

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