The municipal service of free collection of furniture and fixtures and clean points were suspended due to the health crisis due to the coronavirus, which has caused the massive abandonment of mattresses on the streets of Madrid, where a total of 17,363 have been collected until the past. June 9, almost 200 a day. [Follow the coronavirus news live].

Sources from the Environment and Mobility area of ​​the Madrid City Council have told Efe that more than 8 mattresses have been abandoned on public roads during each hour of this pandemic , with Puente de Vallecas being the most affected district.

Although the home collection service and clean points have been fully operational for a month, some citizens continue to throw mattresses on public roads.

To preserve the health of the cleaning service workers, they have arranged to mark the mattresses and quarantine them 5 days before picking them up from the limes, making them take even longer to leave.

To avoid contagion among the workers of the municipal cleaning service and to avoid the expansion of COVID-19, the City Council of the capital sent a message to the citizens not to take their furniture and belongings out into the street, but this has not been avoided. thousands of them were abandoned on public roads during the pandemic, many of them had been used by people infected with Covid-19 or killed by the virus.

Since June 9, 17,363 mattresses have been collected in the streets of Madrid, specifically, 1,690 in the districts of Centro, Chamberí and Tetuán; 1,008 in Chamartín, Salamanca, Retiro and Arganzuela; 2,521 in Fuencarral, Moncloa and Latina; 1,904 in Hortaleza, Barajas, Ciudad Lineal and San Blas; 5,177 in Vicálvaro, Moratalaz, Puente de Vallecas and Villa de Vallecas; and 5,063 in Carabanchel, Usera and Villaverde.

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