Coronavirus measures: Madrid and 5 other communities reject the new anticovid measures of the PSOE-Podemos Government for leisure and bars

The Community of Madrid has positioned itself today against the measures that the Ministry of Health wants to impose so that the hospitality industry closes obligatorily at one in the morning and prohibits smoking in outdoor spaces when they do not keep two meters away until that 70% of the population and all those over 50 years of age are fully immunized. The Government led by Isabel Díaz Ayuso has qualified the proposal, which they have also opposed this Wednesday in the Inter-territorial Health Council of the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia, Andalusia and Murcia, of “inopportune” taking into account “the current epidemiological situation and progress in vaccination.” In addition, Madrid has recalled that each autonomous community has already developed, as a result of the decay of the state of alarm last 9 May, its own regulations and, therefore, this attempt at “imposition” by the Government of Pedro Sánchez is not understood now. In this way, it has advanced that the Community of Madri d will continue to apply the measures contemplated in the regional autonomous regulations that, for the moment, also allow the opening of bars and restaurants until one in the morning Covid traffic light The document, which has been approved with the vote in favor of the rest of the communities and The abstention of Castilla y León and the autonomous city of Melilla, contemplates a so-called Covid traffic light that regulates the restrictions based on the epidemiological situation of each region. Thus, if Madrid were to apply these measures – something that has already advanced that it will not do – it will It would be forced to close the interior of bars and restaurants and reduce the number of diners on terraces to six people, after expanding it to eight last Monday, because the region is at alert level 3.In addition, the community would be forced to postpone the opening of nightlife spaces in the midst of the conversations it is having with the sector in order to reactivate these places as soon as possible.Measures in Madrid However, the Executive of Isabel Díaz Ayuso insists that they do not Covid will apply the measures contemplated in this traffic light and will continue with its regional strategy to fight the pandemic.Since last Monday the region softened the anticovid measures by chaining several weeks with all the indicators of the pandemic down. Bars and restaurants may be open until 1 a.m., the number of diners has grown both outside and inside the establishments, going from 6 to 8 on terraces and from 4 to 6 inside the premises, and there are no longer basic areas (ZBS) or localities with mobility restrictions in the entire region, from which you can freely enter and exit.