Salvador Illa: "Ayuso has decided to do nothing" and "patience has a limit"

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The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, charged hard this Friday against the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and has ensured that given the figures that corroborate the health "emergency" in Madrid due to the coronavirus pandemic "he has decided do nothing".

"Patience has a limit," said the minister at the press conference after the extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers, which approved the declaration of a state of alarm in Madrid.

"There is no more blind than he who does not want to see."

Illa has defended that in Madrid the levels of transmission of the virus are "very high".

They are not just outbreaks, but there is community transmission (uncontrolled infections) and hospital care runs the risk of being overwhelmed, and winter has not yet arrived, he explained.

Cities like Paris or Berlin, he pointed out, have acted with less data.

The minister has assured that it is necessary "to prevent the virus from spreading uncontrollably on this bridge [of October 12]" and that is why the capital of Spain and nine other Madrid municipalities are closed.

But, he reiterated, that they are the same measures that were already in force, which restrict some movements.

"We couldn't not act"

"We could not not act," said the minister.

"It has come this far because the Community of Madrid has not acted before."

Illa, usually more restrained, has spared no reproach.

"The obligation of any government with a soul is to bend the curve, even if they involve sacrifices," he said.

The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, in this same appearance in Moncloa, has announced that the Government puts 7,000 agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard to control the exits and entrances in Madrid.

According to Illa, "we must prevent the virus from spreading uncontrollably on this bridge."

The Executive's horizon is that the state of alarm lasts only 15 days and then the Madrid Government continues to act, based on the Public Health Law, which is what, he pointed out, Díaz Ayuso has not invoked for the TSJM to approve the measures imposed by the Ministry.

In addition to the capital of Spain, the municipalities affected by entry and exit restrictions and leisure limitations - it is maintained that circulation is allowed for work reasons, and shops and schools remain open - are

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If the health situation improves, it will be the Government of Spain itself that will lift the measures.

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