Cantabria announced this Friday that from midnight nightlife venues in 16 municipalities , including Santander, will temporarily close due to the large number of active outbreaks. An epidemiological situation that seems to have turned against the president of the community, Miguel Ángel Revilla, when he predicted last March a peak of infections after Easter, ” especially in Madrid ” by ensuring that the capital was going ” To be a bomb in 15 or 20 days, ” he said then.
But those predictions that Revilla made now seem to be taking their toll on him with an increase in infections in his community that can only be reduced with drastic measures and that largely affect the economy of the hospitality sector, something that Madrid has managed to balance, however. .
The manifestations of the Cantabrian president assuring that the capital would be a “viral bomb” were captured last March when he was talking about the data of the pandemic in Madrid with several people , some of them community councilors, after an official act in Reinosa .
The news did not leave anyone indifferent, since it referred to the Covid contagion curve: “I went to dinner on Saturday at Ponzano Street and that seemed like a demonstration. And half did not wear masks, “he explained during his talk in the political group.
The president of Cantabria, Miguel Ángel Revilla, intervened again after those words to criticize the high rate of deaths in the Community of Madrid: “The dead do not speak, but statistically you look at the death rate in Madrid and tell me.” “Of course, more than double that here,” another person replied, to which the president sentenced: “More than double.”
The response of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díez Ayuso, did not take long to arrive when Miguel Ángel Revilla charged him, reminding him that “it seems that now he is a virologist and health expert ,” Díez Ayuso ironized.
But in addition, among the pearls that the president dedicated to him, he explained that “I am very surprised that he has been able to give the famous napkins to citizens as the only alternative for health protection” and also assured him that “ we, while we were not giving those napkins , we brought 22 planes with medical supplies to protect all the professionals who have been at the forefront of the covid “.
It must also be said that with the data in hand, in mid-June, Madrid had less cumulative incidence at 14 days than the average for Spain : 101.27 cases per 100,000 inhabitants compared to 101.39 nationals. The risk of contagion in the community headed by Isabel Díaz Ayuso has plummeted for weeks and there are now five communities with a higher incidence. Another sample for Revilla to take note.
What is true and cannot be ignored is that the measures taken during this pandemic by the Community of Madrid have yielded excellent results. Now they intend to speed up vaccination by providing this possibility 24 hours a day. In this way, with the non-stop vaccination at the Isabel Zendal hospital, Ayuso estimates that the daily inoculations at this center will increase from 15,000 to 20,000.
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They dismiss precautionary measures
The measure to close the nightlife in those 16 towns has been announced by the Ministry of Health itself, just a few hours after the Superior Court of Justice of Cantabria (TSJC) has rejected the precautionary measure requested by the Hospitality Business Association of Cantabria (AEHC) to suspend the limitation of the closure of nightlife at 3.00 in the morning.
In addition to Santander, the measure affects Torrelavega, Castro Urdiales, Camargo, Piélagos, El Astillero, Santa Cruz de Bezana, Laredo, Santoña, Santa María de Cayón, Colindres, Marina de Cudeyo, Ribamontán al Mar, Bárcena de Cicero, Noja and Arnuero.
The Ministry of Health asserted that in recent days there had been an “exponential” increase in cases linked to multiple celebrations in discos, nightclubs and pubs, which continue in homes.
Specifically, of the 57 outbreaks currently active in Cantabria, 17 are linked to nightlife establishments and activities. In addition, of the total of 736 cases linked to these outbreaks, 61%, that is, 450, originate in these places, he highlights.
For this reason, and after an “exhaustive” assessment of the outbreaks, as of 00.00 this Saturday the opening to the public of nightlife establishments is not authorized in the 16 municipalities that this week are at a medium risk level (Level 2).
“The sole objective of the measure is to contain the spread of the virus , stop the growing trend in all epidemiological indicators and reduce the incidence,” says Health.
At the moment, the accumulated incidence at 14 days stands at 242 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at seven days at 156, at a “very high risk level with a clear upward trend.”
