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The Community of Madrid will premiere this Monday Phase 2 of the de-escalation with a kind of simulation of what could be the return to classrooms next year within the new normality that is shaping the coronavirus crisis. Only a small group of Primary students will attend the schools , by appointment and taking extreme measures of social distance, hygiene and protection.

The recovery almost three months after the face-to-face classes in the stage of six to 12 years will be voluntary and is focused exclusively on those who have had difficulty following the lessons remotely during confinement, both due to the lack of adequate technological means and the online learning system . In addition, from June 16th, the students of 2nd Baccalaureate will also be able to review in direct contact with their teachers the fundamental contents for the Evaluation for Access to University (EvAU), which was already delayed to days 6, 7, July 8 and 9 at the start of the pandemic.

CCOO and UGT warned this Friday that "there are no security guarantees" for the reopening of schools within the day. After learning about the plan that the Ministry of Education presented to them this Friday, they criticized that it is "too late" and that it is "insufficient", reports EuropaPress.

As the de-escalation progresses, the Metro will also return to its pre-crisis closing time: at half past one in the morning, the last trains will leave each station instead of at 12 at night, as has happened since the end of March. In addition, the Regional Transport Consortium will strengthen 78 bus lines , especially at peak times, to try to maintain the social distance required by the health authorities.

Capacity limitations

For its part, the 101 shopping centers in the Community of Madrid will also be able to reopen starting this Monday, although with capacity limitations: only 30% of their capacity in common areas and 40% inside stores. This was one of the flexibilities that the regional government had requested from the central for its second week in Phase 1, although it was not authorized, nor was the suppression of the time slots in walks and sports activities was allowed to "avoid crowds" , which will take effect from now on.

The restaurant sector in the region is also looking forward to this step forward towards the elimination of restrictions, which will mean that it can be consumed within the premises, albeit with similar limitations on the number of customers. According to estimates by the Hospitality Business Association, half of the bars, restaurants and terraces will open in the neighborhoods , although the figure will drop to 25% in the center of the capital because the impact of tourism is "very high," reports Eph.

Always by appointment, family members will be able to visit the nursing homes, supervised homes and centers for people with disabilities. The recreational pools with 30% capacity, the natural parks and the cable car also reopen.

Caution

As soon as they received confirmation from the Health Minister, Salvador Illa, on Friday at noon, the official Twitter account of the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, shared the news. «Madrid will go to Phase 2. With responsibility, maintaining precautions and learning to live with Covid, we are winning this battle. But precautions must be taken: masks and social distance, "he wrote.

Your government has released a video this week that compiles some of the citizen recklessness detected during the start of the de-escalation of confinement, such as toasts between friends on the reopened terraces, clashes of hands and kisses. "We cannot go back" , has warned the regional leader.

Madrid has been the community most affected by the coronavirus, with more than 30% of the 27,134 deaths in hospitals throughout Spain registered by the official Health statistics. To them are added the deaths in residences and private homes, which brings the number of victims in the region to 14,878.

Among the data provided by Ayuso's team to request the phase change is that the number of hospitalized patients has decreased by 97% compared to the peak of the pandemic, to 490. Those admitted to the ICU have decreased by 90%, to the 140; and deaths 98%: according to the last record, on Friday, there were eight.

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