"This will be a different summer in Madrid." This was warned this Tuesday by the Deputy Mayor, Begoña Villacís, and the Councilor for Sports, Sofía Miranda, during the presentation of the municipal protocol for the reopening of the summer pools, which will finally take place on July 1 . And that difference will also affect the municipal aquatic spaces that will not repeat queues, nor picnics in its surroundings or crowds in the interior with the regulations that the Madrid City Council has presented.

"The image of the summer in Madrid is the queues in the pools," recalled number two municipal and the mayor of Sports. But that image will not be seen in 2020 because in order to access the municipal spaces, a prior reservation will be required, either through a mobile application, which the Consistory is finalizing, or via telephone . This reserve will be for one of the two shifts that the municipal corporation has established for this summer period: in the morning from 11 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. and in the afternoon from 4.30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Those will be the two strips in which Madrid residents will be able to go to the municipal swimming pools, which will have a limited capacity of 30% and a reduced price of 50% due to the limited hours. Between both, an hour is established so that the workers of each enclosure can disinfect the facilities before the arrival of the evening shift. "So Madrid residents will know that they are in a pool that meets all health guarantees," Villacís said.

But this will not be the only novelty in 13 of the 22 municipal swimming pools that will open their doors this summer. The changing rooms will also suffer from capacity limitations and showers cannot be used following the norm established by the Ministry of Health. "The protocol is alive and will vary with respect to the changes established by the Ministry," said Miranda, who described the process carried out for the reopening of the aquatic areas as "titanic". "Normally this begins to prepare in February for its opening in June, this year we have done it in one month," she added.

Another modification will be that the cafeterias of the municipal swimming pools will not serve food and that the ingestion of the same will be prohibited inside the facilities, not even in the grass areas, where two meters of safety distance will be established between groups. For this, the City Council will assign a specific person to these functions in each space, although it has ruled out "for the time being" establishing delimited areas with signage for each group.

Within the time limits, at the Palacio de Cibeles they are also studying the option of establishing a preferential reservation for those families with young children or for the elderly . "We are studying how to apply it, but it is obviously being valued," said the vice mayor during the presentation of the new security protocol, for which the Consistory will have 670 workers who have previously passed a PCR test.

That will be the regulations to follow in the 13 municipal swimming pools that the City Council will reopen on July 1: Santa Ana and Vicente del Bosque, in Fuencarral-El Pardo; Casa de Campo and José María Cagigal, in Moncloa-Aravaca; Aluche, in Latin; La Mina, in Carabanchel; Orcasitas and San Fermín, in Usera; Moratalaz and La Elipa, in Moratalaz; Luis Aragonés, in Hortaleza; San Blas, in San Blas-Canillejas; Palomeras, in Puente de Vallecas, and Concepción, in August in Ciudad Lineal. To them will be added 13 indoor pools to supply the capacity limitations, they point out in the corporation.

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