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The Community of Madrid has resubmitted this Wednesday its request to go to Phase 1 of the de-escalation, assuring that it has done the duties assigned to it by the Ministry of Health. The weak point, as pointed out by the Executive of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, was in the weakness of the coronavirus infection detection system .

To solve this, the hiring of 685 professionals who will join the Primary Care service and 400 technicians who will track the "close contacts" of those who test positive at Covid-19 has begun. At the moment , the cost of this increase in personnel has not been specified , which is in addition to the renewal of the almost 10,000 workers hired for the coronavirus crisis.

"If they do not give us the pass to Phase 1, we are going to have a storm surge," sources from the Puerta del Sol Government assure EL MUNDO, who consider that the latest health data from the region endorse going one step further in de-escalation. On Monday at the meeting of the Inter-territorial Health Council, the minister Salvador Illa was not opposed to Madrid starting the lack of confidence, although always cautiously because he still did not have the regional report.

In Ayuso's team they trusted that the Generalitat of Catalonia asked for the pass of Barcelona and its metropolitan area to phase 1, because they considered that it was more difficult for the central Executive to say no to the two main Spanish cities. With President Quim Torra's decision not to ask for the advance of Barcelona, ​​everything is complicated for Madrid, according to the same sources; especially, because the data of the Catalan capital are very similar to those of Madrid.

In the Madrid government, a positive assessment is made of the measures adopted after the refusal to move on from last week. "The care data is very good, we are still doing well, and the tracking network in Primary Care and Public Health is working properly," the sources consulted said Wednesday morning. After the news that came from Barcelona, ​​optimism eased, although in Sol they doubt that in Moncloa they want the direct confrontation with Madrid that they assure would occur if the request to go to Phase 1 is rejected again.

Demographic reality

Within its new petition, the regional executive has also requested that the lack of confinement adapt to the demographic "reality" of the region with measures such as the mandatory use of face masks in public places and closed spaces . Likewise, it has requested that in certain businesses the limitation of capacity be changed by a "commitment to respect social distance".

Another of the arguments detailed by the Ministry of Health in its new report is that of "elasticity plans in progress" that would allow expanding the number of hospital beds in the event of a rebound. In fact, the region does not currently meet the required ratios, although this data was not decisive in the denial of the region's transition to Phase 1, according to autonomous government sources.

Madrid concentrates one in three cases of coronavirus in Spain , which now total 228,691. In addition, more than 30% of deaths from Covid-19 have occurred in their hospitals, which already represent 27,104 fatalities.

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