Madrid

preventively activated the anti-Covid protocol

in nursing homes yesterday and reinforced the Isabel Zendal hospital, after the alarming news coming from China.

The Community also demanded that the Government

"intensify" the controls at the Barajas airport

to prevent the entry of Covid 19 cases from China, where there has been an explosion of infections and the population is already allowed to travel abroad again.

As reported by the Madrid government, the Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, sent a letter to the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, in which he demanded measures and information on the situation of the coronavirus in China.

Ruiz Escudero stressed that it is necessary to "intensify" the controls at the Barajas airport, since it

has been the "entrance door" of the virus in Spain in "all previous waves" of the coronavirus

.

He also asked Darias "for the urgent and extraordinary convocation of the Plenary of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System (SNS) in the next few hours to address the current situation and the possible measures to be adopted."

The Madrid minister requested these measures given the

"significant changes"

that China has introduced regarding the fight against covid-19, referring to the fact that this country has abandoned the most restrictive confinement policy to fight this disease.

The head of Madrid's Health added in his letter that the Beijing authorities have opened the borders to their nationals to travel abroad, to which is added "the great mobility

planned within the framework of the Chinese New Year."

For this reason, the counselor demanded that Darias analyze the "possible impact" of this scenario "both at the national level and within the framework of the Health Security Committee" of the European Union.

Escudero argued that: "despite the high vaccination coverage in the Spanish population", it is necessary to assess "possible public health measures that,

before deciding to restrict freedom of movement,

involve extraordinary control in the country of origin of the departures of people with negative results in diagnostic tests for active infection".

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