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All those travelers who arrive in Galicia from areas with a high incidence of Covid-19, be they tourists or Galicians who return home, should notify the health authorities and provide them with details of their stay and a form of contact.

The president of the Xunta de Galicia , Alberto Núñez Feijóo, announced the measure this Thursday after the weekly meeting of his government and explained that travelers must "on a mandatory basis" communicate their location or address, contact details and the length of stay in the community as long as they have been a minimum of 14 days in these places, both from other parts of Spain and abroad.

Feijóo explained that the objective of the measure is "early diagnosis", that the health authorities know at all times where the people who may pose a risk of contagion are and be "prepared to quickly detect" those who are infected .

It is not "in any case", according to Feijóo, a discriminatory measure based on the origin of the traveler, but affects Galicians or foreigners alike and those who come to the community for leisure or work and will be applied in response to a list of areas of incidence that the Ministry of Health of Galicia will make public next week based on objective data. The measure will take effect as soon as this list is published.

Travelers who come from any of the places included in that list will have a period of 24 hours to notify their address in Galicia and, to make it more operational, they will have several ways to do it. Thus, they can provide their data through the specific website enabled by the Xunta during the coronavirus.sergas.gal pandemic or on the phone 881 00 20 21 .

Once the health authorities have these data, if the traveler shows symptoms, they will undergo a PCR test and there will be places of origin where the test will be done directly, even if they are asymptomatic people.

"This must be done yes or yes. We think it is good for everyone," said Feijóo, who rejected, for the moment, detailing which territories will be on that list. Yes it has advanced that one of the scales that will be used to prepare that map of places of high incidence will be the number of cases in the last 7-14 days.

"Irresponsibility" of the Fuenlabrada

The decision of the Xunta has been precipitated this week by what happened with Fuenlabrada , which traveled to Galicia last Monday with players infected by coronavirus. Feijóo himself referred this Thursday to what happened and appreciated that the football club's conduct was "irresponsible" and, given its "enormous irresponsibility", an information file has been opened that "is being protected" by the legal advice of the Xunta.

"This is not normal behavior, if there is a positive on Saturday and there are positives on Sunday, and the game is held on Monday, what you cannot do is travel," said Feijóo to the club, which he also made ugly that "he got public health at risk. " That trip, maintains the acting Galician president, "should never have occurred" and has generated "enormous disappointment".

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