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The Government has cooled down today the possibility of approving a new decree of state of alarm, that allows reducing the time slot of the curfew, in line with the decision adopted by Castilla y León.

This autonomy was reduced from 10 pm, established in the decree, to 8 pm but the Executive has appealed it to the Supreme Court, understanding that it is outside the current legal framework.

This controversy has opened the debate on whether a greater limitation of night mobility would contribute to curbing the runaway increase in infections and some autonomies have joined the request.

On Saturday, in an appearance in Barcelona, ​​the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, opened up to this option, and yesterday the Minister of Territorial Policy, Carolina Darias, also favored studying it in the framework of the meeting of the Inter-territorial Council of Tomorrow's health and even to approve it, as long as there is consensus.

But today that path seems to take another destination.

The message that María Jesús Montero has launched sounds quite different.

This initial predisposition has disappeared because, he maintains, "there is room" for the autonomous communities to adopt decisions regarding the reduction of mobility within the framework of the current decree.

The spokesperson thus removes the possibility that an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers, this week, after the Interterritorial Health Council tomorrow, approves a new state of alarm that allows the establishment of the curfew at 8:00 p.m.

Montero has insisted that the autonomies must explore all options.

Today the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, announced the closure of the hotel and sports facilities all day and shops, starting at 6 pm, starting Thursday and for 15 days.

But he has also advanced that tomorrow he will ask the Government to allow the curfew to be advanced to 20 hours.

The Government now assures that it does not have a closed position on this but that it will "listen to the feelings" of all the communities because it is not that "immediately that one asks for something, it is attended to."

It is necessary to know if the rest of the territories think that it is a "adjusted" and "timely" measure.

But he offers new reasoning today as to why he believes that the current state of alarm can contain this third wave.

One, the need to listen to the experts and know where we are, on the contagion curve, to "illuminate new decisions. And two, something that the minister has repeated on several occasions, and that is that in this third wave Vaccines are already being administered and "we are not giving it value." "This is allowing the protection of elderly people in residences and health personnel and, therefore, making our health system more resistant." "All this must be done value it ", has indicated.

This position today leaves totally in the air what can be adopted tomorrow in the Interterritorial Health Council but it seems that the Government is telling the autonomies to take all the measures within their reach, as Puig has done, before adopting new ones .

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  • Carolina Darias

  • Salvador Illa

  • Maria Jesus Montero

  • Supreme court

  • Coronavirus

  • Covid 19

  • Curfew

  • State of alarm

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