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Madrid coronavirus: Spain orders lockdown amid rise in cases


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2020 Oct 9, 8:19am   572 views  5 comments

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The Spanish government has ordered a partial lockdown in the capital Madrid and surrounding areas badly affected by coronavirus after a rise in cases.

Under the new restrictions, residents will not be allowed to leave the area unless they have to make an essential journey.

However, Madrid's regional government says the lockdown is not legally valid.

Greater Madrid accounts for more than a third of the 133,604 cases diagnosed in Spain over the past two weeks.

On Wednesday, a majority of Spain's regional governments, who are in charge of healthcare, voted in favour of imposing restrictions in areas with more than 100,000 residents if they met three benchmarks - 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, 35% Covid patient occupancy in intensive care units and positive results in 10% of tests.

Madrid, which has a rate of 780 infections per 100,000, already meets the criteria. The order, published on Thursday, gives the city's authorities 48 hours to put in place the restrictions, which fall far short of the lockdown measures imposed nationally on 14 March.

Under the new restrictions, people in Madrid and nine neighbouring towns will only be allowed to leave their area for essential trips involving work, school and university, visits to the doctor and care for the vulnerable.

Social gatherings will be limited to six people and restrictions on hours and numbers are also being imposed on hotels, places of worship and shops. Parks and playgrounds are exempt unless the local authority chooses to shut them.

Madrid's regional government, which is controlled by the conservative opposition and did not vote in favour of the restrictions, has argued that the lockdown is not legally valid.
Regional health chief Enrique Ruiz Escudero accused the central government of sending a "message of alarm and agitation" and did not rule out fighting the lockdown in court.

But Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso said on Thursday that while the order would be challenged in court, it would be complied with.
The Madrid regional government had chosen not to put the city and surrounding areas into lockdown, instead issuing restrictions in 45 basic healthcare areas in a bid to curb the spread of the virus.

These measures themselves were controversial as they affected mostly poorer areas of the city and prompted protests by hundreds of residents.
Spain's central government argued that the restrictions were not sufficient and recommended an end to all unnecessary movement across the city.
Spain has seen a significant rise in cases in recent weeks. More than 31,411 people have died during the pandemic and there have been more than 748,000 infections, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The World Health Organisation earlier this week said European countries were seeing "worrying increases of the disease".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54364015

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1   RWSGFY   2020 Oct 9, 8:26am  

I have friends in France and they say it's getting retarded there too. The kids are going to school though, so it's less retarded than California.
2   mell   2020 Oct 9, 10:08am  

FuckCCP89 says
I have friends in France and they say it's getting retarded there too. The kids are going to school though, so it's less retarded than California.


Germany and Italy (at least Sicily) still fine as well. Funny how Sweden doesn't give a fuck.They should let it play out instead if the death rate stays stable.
3   Tenpoundbass   2020 Oct 9, 10:28am  

I think Trump's next term should focus on criminalizing these clandestine NGO meetings, that American Billionaires and Opposition Leadership is able to attend to plot world domination plots with other Commie like minded Socialists. If there was ever something the Logan act was intended to address, it was in spirit of what is happening now.

No American official elected or otherwise, should be allowed to attend any of these functions, without it being fully documented and posted on line what was discussed.

Save for G20 Summits where the Presidents and leaders meet to discuss matters and policy. We can't have third rate politicians and deep pocket commies, wishing ill intent on America, unilaterally meeting with our enemies to discuss hostile take overs or our country, and circumvent our Democracy.

Also I believe we need a Federal Agency where any International philanthropic funds must funnel through, and used for the intended usage, after a review if that's allowed.

Efforts to indoctrinate people and ruin our education system should be rejected outright. No NGO should be allowed to operate unchecked in this country. Never again!

The President will never be allowed to collude with NGO's to thwart legislation and to operate above official foreign and domestic policy.

I'm sure if every cause, SOROS, funds, was transparent and vetted, no American in their right mind would approve.


I only mention this in this tread. Because I'm sure the CCP flu was a collaborative effort, with people in each of the countries that used the opportunity as a power grab, attended some NGO meeting to concoct this effort probably going back as far as Trump's inauguration day, if not the day after the 2016 election.
4   Ceffer   2020 Oct 9, 12:30pm  

Globalists are probably selling pre-positive Covid tests to the governments who want to keep the oppression going.

"Our Covid Tyranny Kit test positive each time, every time to assure your virtue signaling deprivations of human rights amongst your inconvenient populations. In the future, we will also provide lethal virii specifically for targeted populations, so that you need not deploy those messy chemical weapons."
5   B.A.C.A.H.   2020 Oct 9, 2:20pm  

"Spanish Flu"

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