123 days have passed since the end of the state of alarm throughout Spain, which marked the beginning of the "new normal".

Today the Ministry of Health will present to the autonomous communities homogeneous criteria on how to act against the pandemic, based on the same indicators for all regions.

The latest draft of the plan of 'Coordinated response actions to control the transmission of Covid-19', to which EL MUNDO has accessed, increases the health recommendations for the autonomies at "high" or "extreme" risk, with new measures like the obligation to ask for the state of alarm to approve "additional restrictions" such as the curfew.

In this way, Salvador Illa denies the PP communities their main request: that the Executive should take the additional measures.

"The president of the autonomous community will request the Government to declare a state of alarm, in accordance with the provisions of the fifth article of Organic Law 4/1981, of June 1," the text reads.

The Ministry of Health emphasizes more than ever that it is necessary to "interact in social bubbles" structured in "groups with stable coexistence", because infections soar between people who do not live together.

Therefore, it is recommended to limit the presence of these people in meetings as much as possible.

And, for the 11 autonomies that currently have a high alert level, it is directly recommended to "stay at home" in municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants.

Those regions are six in an extreme situation - Navarra, Aragon, Castilla y León, Community of Madrid, Catalonia and La Rioja - and five with high indicators: Castilla-La Mancha, Andalusia, the Basque Country, Asturias and Murcia.

In these 11 regions it is proposed to "recommend that the population leave the home only as much as necessary" (as Madrid began to propose, without success), and "avoiding closed spaces in which activities incompatible with the use of masks are carried out and people many people".

Cantabria, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Extremadura, Galicia and the Valencian Community would be at an average level.

In these regions it is also recommended to stay at home, but without the recommendation to go out only when strictly "necessary".

In addition, the meetings are extended from 6 to 10 people.

However, Galicia, for example, has placed the top at five.

The recommendation not to leave home is one of the new "measures on social and family relations", an area in which the document emphasizes: "According to the data available in Spain on the main areas of transmission of outbreaks, almost a third part of these occur in the social sphere, especially in meetings of family members and friends who are not living together, and to a lesser extent, in the workplace ".

Likewise, the document adds the recommendation not to open bars and other non-essential services after 10 p.m. in those 11 regions where the second wave hits the hardest.

But the closing of the interior of the bars is eliminated, with respect to the previous draft.

Not surprisingly, the director of the National Government Alerts and Emergencies Coordination Center, Fernando Simón, already warned on Monday that there would be changes in the text.

The Ministry adds an important novelty: a region that enters a certain alert level will not leave it until "the indicators remain at a lower risk level for a minimum time of 14 days."

This is introduced after the Community of Madrid lowered the threshold for the perimeter closure in a few days of alarm status.

In municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants, especially those with less than 5,000 inhabitants, the assessment of the indicators must be done "always in a very local way and based on the context and situation of each place."

Rather than establishing risk levels, "measures must be adopted that are highly adapted and directed to the characteristics of the epidemiological and risk situation in each territory", and based on the trend and the existence of "hot spots".

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