MADRID – An added anxiety and resignation is noticeable in the mask of parents collecting textbooks in a spanish working-class community with a stable accumulation of new coronavirus infections.
The authorities of Madrid, the European capital that is suffering the worst epidemic wave of the moment, are introducing new restrictions on social talks from Monday, which coincide with the opening of maximum schools, which is seen as a turning point in the fight against the virus.
Special emphasis is placed on spaces such as San Diepass, a culturally varied community of narrow streets and small apartments where many citizens continued to go on to paint during the summer, for manual paintings and volatile works.
“Southern Madrid is where reasonable northern labor is stacked in small apartments,” said Simona Filip, 44, a Romanian migrant whose 6-year-old son is expected to return to school on Tuesday.
Your child has struggled to be informed online since Spain blocked in mid-March and a nonprofit gave the family circle an electronic pill that the child can use.
“The child wants a proper education because I can’t help him and my husband has to work,” Filip told The Associated Press this week.”We don’t have a selection yet to wait for the school to accept it.”
In the last two weeks, Spain has recorded a cumulative occurrence of approximately 217 cases of viruses showing a population of 100,000 inhabitants, four times the European average.Pandemic experts increased to 1,300 last week and remained above 1,000 instances on Friday.
Jorge Nacarino, president of the Local Neighbors Association, said poverty and years of insufficient investment for the region are causing the peak: small, cheap apartments built five or eight decades ago have not been replaced and now house extended families or teams of migrants who can to increase space costs in other neighborhoods.
As happened on the first wave, social estating is again complicated in the apartments, and many of those who have had contact with others already inflamed by the coronavirus cannot quarantine and take time off at work, Nacarino said.
“We want a serious public investment plan in the region, from gyms and sports services to social programs,” he said.
With unemployment rising in Spain as a result of virus-induced shutdowns, “narcoflats,” or vacant apartments taken over by gangs for drug distribution and consumption, will likely spread, Nacarino said. of social disruption in the area, with at least seven institutions operating along a short stretch of one of San Diego’s main streets.
Since most of the recent new infections have been linked to gatherings in personal homes, the regional government on Friday extended the ban on gatherings of more than 10 people to indoor gatherings. Participation in funerals, funerals, weddings or devotional celebrations, as well as visits by organizations to museums or guided tourism will also be limited from Monday, the government said.
This follows the crackdown on evening entertainment, the early closure of the city’s parks to prevent other young people from drinking alcohol and partying in giant groups, and the smoking ban, all measures announced in reaction to the spiral of new cases in Madrid.since mid-July.
The Spanish capital, which has a population of 6.6 million and attracts staff from all over the country, accounted last week for one third of the new viral infections in Spain.At least 16% of hospital beds in Madrid have recently been occupied by patients with COVID-19., the rate of any Spanish region.
“It has nothing to do with what we lived a few months ago,” the region’s health leader Enrique Ruz Escudero said this Friday, in reference to the pandemic peak in April, when makeshift and intensive hospitals had to be built..-long-term care sets to cope with the influx of patients with COVID-19
“The pandemic on the Madrid network is solid and controlled,” the official said at a press conference, arguing that some of the effects of recent measures are beginning to take effect.”We are worriedArray … but we’re alarmed.”
Madrid is also expanding the number of touch markers, one of the weakest links to deal with the new wave of epidemics, and is buying two million immediate coronavirus kits.
Spain, which has had part of a million cases shown since February, is leading the moment of the pandemic wave in Europe.At least 29,418 other people died in Spain from the pandemic, of which 184 were reported on Friday, but the actual death toll is an idea.to be taller, as many of those who died at the peak of the March and April epidemics have never been tested.
The northern region of Navarra is the first to launch this Friday a new school year, with mandatory mask for all schoolchildren over 6 years old and measures of social estating in schools.
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