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The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has accused the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, of applying a "rule change invented this morning" to justify the maintenance of the state of alarm in nine municipalities of the region, decreed last Friday with a duration of 14 days given the increase in Covid-19 infections.

As Illa indicated this Tuesday in an interview on the Ser chain, in order to lift the confinement in the localities where mobility has been restricted, there must now be an accumulated incidence below 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and

"ideally" around 100

.

The figure established to activate it, as published in the Official State Gazette, was 500 positives.

"Without any sanitary criteria, the demands have increased

and we have found out from the media instead of from the Covid Group this afternoon," Díaz Ayuso lamented in an appearance with the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez- Almeida.

"Under the false blanket of dialogue they impose without listening, without respecting the work of our sanitary technicians," he added.

Data from the Ministry of Health indicate that the accumulated incidence of coronavirus cases has dropped to 457 per 100,000 inhabitants on average in the region between October 5 and 11, when the figure was 813 in the week of October. September 21st.

For his part, the mayor of Madrid has detailed that at the moment

16 of the 21 districts of the city are in figures of less than 500 infections

per 100,000 inhabitants and that the incidence in the whole of the capital will be around the 400 and, therefore, below the limit set by Health.

For this reason, Martínez-Almeida has remarked that the state of alarm is "unfair" and "arbitrary" and implies "a kidnapping of the people of Madrid."

An expression that the mayor wanted to qualify to point out that it is "a political kidnapping" and not "a physical kidnapping."

"What I want to say is that Madrid

residents cannot be hostages of a government that pretends to cover up a scandal with another,"

added Almeida before asking the central executive to "join efforts" and "coordinate administrations" instead of "putting the focus on the Community of Madrid ".

"We cannot trust Minister Illa if one day he tells us that the limit for the state of alarm is 500 infections per 100,000 inhabitants and the next day it drops to 200 without technical criteria," the mayor continued before asking for

"a egalitarian threshold "for all territories

.

"I am not claiming 200 or 300 or 700, but equality with technical grounds [...]. 200 infections are many, but it is not enough to apply a state of alarm," he remarked.

In addition, Almeida has taken advantage of the appearance at Puerta del Sol with President Díaz Ayuso to request both the Community of Madrid and the Government of the nation to

extend the hours of the hotel business until 00.00 hours

"if the sanitary technicians endorse it. ".

"I would be favorable", has affected the first mayor who has highlighted "the impeccable work" that this sector is developing in the prevention measures in its premises.

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  • Coronavirus

  • Covid 19

  • Madrid

  • Isabel Diaz Ayuso

  • José Luis Martínez-Almeida

PoliticsAyuso insists on basic health areas as an "alternative" to the Madrid lock

PoliticsAyuso will not meet with Illa until its technicians decide the measures to adopt in Madrid

Almeida will reinforce the restricted areas with more municipal police and will inform each Madrilenian about their health area

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