"Concern". That is the word used by the Community of Madrid on the reopening of borders with countries outside the Schengen area that will take place on July 1 in Spain in line with the rest of the European Union, as announced this Sunday by the President of the Government. , Pedro Sánchez.

This is reflected in the regional government statement with the requests that the president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, transmitted to the central government at the last conference of regional presidents held yesterday. Among those requests, a specific plan for Barajas airport , one of the main routes of entry to Madrid and Spain.

The president delved into the idea of ​​promoting "measures that are not coercive or expel tourism" but bearing in mind that Barajas was the "main entry of the virus" into the national territory . For this reason, the popular leader requested a specific plan for the capital's airfield, even evaluating the tests in the countries of origin, especially in the case of those outside the Schengen area.

"We, depending on how the person comes from the origin, we will have to make decisions," the Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, told EL MUNDO, who even proposed the possibility of performing rapid tests or PCR in the case of travelers with symptoms or the option to enable "a place of confinement" if necessary.

"We have already asked the minister in writing and personally to meet because it is essential that we have coordination," added the Minister of Health, who warns that these measures should be taken especially in the case of travelers from the Asian and American continents. .

These questions, as Ayuso indicated yesterday, exceed the competences of both the Community of Madrid and the Government and must be adopted "within the European Union" to establish "whether different decisions will be taken if the citizens who arrive in Madrid proceed from community countries or from other parts of the world ».

"The Schengen area is clear, but when they come from destinations such as Asia or America, the decision must be made ," said Ruiz Escudero.

In the Community of Madrid they assure that "the decision is not easy", but they recall that many of the coronavirus cases that occurred in Italy were "imported cases" from China, where the pandemic began. " Few came to Spain from China, but many came from Italy, " warns Ruiz Escudero.

From the Ministry of Health fear that the arrival of travelers with positive diagnoses by Covid generate "a stress" to the Madrid system in case it is necessary to isolate them and put them in quarantine. "You have to talk to Aena to see what kind of test they are going to do," added the head of the regional department.

Faced with this situation, Ruiz Escudero indicates that you must "define a very specific model" that will require "thorough work" and take "co-responsibility" into account. " What you demand to come from your origin, you have to do here when they go there, " he says, even going so far as to ask the central government to evaluate certain places with many positives "avoid flights" because this is a point that "exceeds the Community competence '.

This health strategy to avoid regrowths with the focus on the Barajas airport, should it develop, should be established "apart from the temperature measurements" already carried out at the aerodrome, understood in the Community of Madrid.

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