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The Ministry of Defense has decided to implement an early response system to Covid-19 to prevent a possible upturn in cases within the Armed Forces, which includes the authorization of trackers who will also be able to carry out their work in the administration. civil.

The Undersecretariat of Defense published an instruction in the Official Defense Bulletin (BOD) this Saturday, which indicates that this system will be able to respond to "punctual and exceptional support requested by the competent authorities " in emergency situations derived from the pandemic, sources explain. defense.

In order to guarantee a "capacity and sufficient control" of case detection in the personnel of the Armed Forces, it has been decided to create a "tracking system" for "early detection and epidemiological surveillance", as well as to train military personnel as trackers.

The instruction establishes that the military personnel dedicated to this purpose "will have the appropriate training to carry out their function", which will be given by the General Directorate of Military Recruitment and Education.

Military trackers "may be available to other authorities upon request to the Ministry, " explain Defense sources, who recall that Minister Margarita Robles has confirmed that these personnel currently in training will be able to support the Autonomous Communities that consider their help necessary.

Thus, where the administrations "cannot arrive or need reinforcement" , the Armed Forces will meet there ", since it is their mission" to be with the citizens and provide the necessary aid, "the sources emphasize.

Its generic objectives are "to reduce the impact of the pandemic" with the "strengthening of the pillars that support timely and effective interventions" and "to prepare the capabilities of the Armed Forces" against the "possible transmission" that may lead to a second coronavirus surge .

For this, the instruction includes, in addition to the training of trackers, measures to reinforce the necessary health, human and material resources to face the pandemic, such as EPI teams, and to improve collective prevention and protection, with instructions that include the mandatory use of a mask .

The personnel of the Armed Forces will have to take it "in open and closed spaces in military enclosures" and outside them, according to what is established by the regulations of each autonomous community.

The Army to the rescue in Lepe

In just 72 hours, which run from the 15th to the 17th of this month, the fire devastated the two main shanty towns in Lepe, where hundreds of foreign seasonal workers lived and, overnight, ran out of what little they had. and that, since then, they wandered through the urban area of ​​that strawberry municipality in the province of Huelva.

To the point that the Armed Forces will take action on the matter in the second intervention carried out by the Army since the end of the Balmis operation.

Set up an emergency camp in which, with the minimum conditions of hygiene and habitability guaranteed, relocate the temporary workers who were left with nothing in the fires.

"The situation is complicated at times"

Right now there are sprouts practically throughout Spain. Sources in the Community of Madrid, where until a few days ago there was some tranquility, acknowledge "concern" about the increase in infections, although at the moment they are hardly having an impact on hospitalizations. "The situation is complicated at times," they admit. The Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid is reinforcing the number of trackers due to the increase in recent days of positive cases for coronavirus. The goal is to be able to more quickly identify the contacts of people who test positive for PCR to avoid spreading the virus in the region.

In the last hours, Madrid has detected two new outbreaks of coronaviruses linked to nightlife, with 15 positives, and another 99 cases of coronavirus infections, in addition to one deceased, according to the latest data reported to the Ministry of Health.

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