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An almost endless caravan of cars that winds from Germany, Holland, Belgium or France to southern Spain, to the ports of Algeciras and Tarifa, fundamentally. More than three million North Africans who return, for a few weeks, to their countries of origin. And a pandemic, that of the SARS-CoV-2 that has turned everything upside down and has sowed doubts about the exodus that occurs every year in Operation Crossing the Strait (OPE).

Those are the ingredients of the last pulse carried out by the Junta de Andalucía, the coalition government between the PP and Ciudadanos chaired by Juanma Moreno Bonilla, and the Pedro Sánchez executive, locked in a tug-of-war that leaves at least For the time being, the OPE is to be developed, which requires an extraordinary device that mobilizes thousands of people.

The Andalusian Government has "doubts", as yesterday the Chairman of the Board, Moreno Bonilla, in Parliament, pointed out about the viability and security of the large displacement of people. The risks , think the Board, are high considering that the pandemic is far from being overcome and the risk of a flare-up is more than real, with the health, social and economic effects that this would entail.

Moreno Bonilla has come to propose to Sánchez the suspension of the OPE in the framework of the conferences of autonomous presidents that have been held every Sunday during the state of alarm, but so far has not found an echo. Although neither from the Government of PSOE and United Podemos have doubts have been cleared and they have limited themselves to ensuring that there are open negotiations with the European countries and, above all, with Morocco, which keeps its borders closed.

The Board not only fears the danger of a flare-up, but also does not trust the official data that Morocco is transmitting about the incidence of the coronavirus in that country.

Operation Crossing the Strait should have started this week, on the 15th to be more exact, and there is no certainty on the date on which the Alawite kingdom will lift restrictions at its border posts, which raises fears, especially in the region. from Campo de Gibraltar, which may cause a collapse in the esplanade of the port of Algeciras used as a boarding area.

"Maximum information"

The Andalusian Government, and yesterday the president of this community made it clear, is not in favor of allowing these massive displacements, but in the event that Moreno Bonilla occurs, he demanded "maximum information to coordinate and plan ourselves." "We ask for control, security, clarity, transparency and that we do things as best we can to avoid possible outbreaks of the coronavirus in our land and in Spain," he insisted in response to a parliamentary question raised by Vox.

He also recalled that Morocco will not reopen its borders , at least until July 12, so it would not be, at least, until the middle of next month when the operation could be carried out.

"In the current circumstances we need very detailed planning and enormous security," stressed Moreno Bonilla, who guaranteed the collaboration of the autonomous administration in the event that these millions of people are allowed to pass through the Strait.

The concern that the virus is in the hands of immigration is palpable in the Board, which in fact has led the central government to take measures and order the testing of all those who arrive in boats and the quarantine is imposed on those who share a boat with whoever tests positive.

The Minister of Health and Families, Jesús Aguirre, has been warning of a high number of positives among immigrants rescued on the coasts who were undergoing the coronavirus test. According to the figures offered by Aguirre on June 4, four out of a hundred immigrants arriving by boat to the Andalusian coast tested positive for coronavirus. On that date, the Board had carried out 886 diagnostic tests of the Covid-19 on as many foreigners landed or rescued from a boat and, of these, 37 had tested positive, representing 4.2% of all immigrants arriving in Andalusia by sea.

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