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Date Published: 15/07/2020
ARCHIVED - Murcia Government requests specific legislation for those breaching Covid quarantine
Although legislation could be created at a regional level, the Murcian Government feels a national law right across Spain would avoid inconsistencies
The extraordinary situation created by the Covid pandemic is throwing up all types of previously unencountered situations which create considerable opportunity for political discord and disagreement.
The situation regarding the management of mandatory Covid quarantining is one of these unlegislated areas and the Murcian regional government is not alone in requesting that the national Ministry of Health take steps to legislate at a nationwide level, rather than each regional authority making its own local laws and regulations.
This is of course being turned into a chance for a political spat in many cases and here in the Murcia Region the regional PP government has been clashing with the leader of the regional PSOE (national government ) over the topic.
Behind the politics is a genuinely conflictive situation which needs to be resolved somehow and the regional Government would like to see a decision taken at national level, in spite of having the competence to create a piece of regional legislation to solve the problem.
Basically, if an individual is found to be Covid positive, they must observe a 14 day quarantine. There is no disagreement about this at all.
The problem arises when an individual fails to observe this quarantine and leaves the house.
At the moment those in quarantine are only monitored via a telephonic monitoring system run by the regional health service. Should they find an individual is not at home when they call, all they can do is inform the local police in the respective municipality who go to the house and verify the situation. An individual can be sanctioned under the public health law, the Ley de Salud Pública, for presenting a danger to other members of the public, but this legislation was not created for this outbreak and there are legal “holes” which make enforcement difficult.
When the state of emergency was in place, the state had the extraordinary power to apply sanctions, but now that control has gone back to the regional governments, it is down to each of the 17 communities to find their own way of dealing with this situation locally, which is not ideal.
Outside of the state of emergency there are no mechanisms in place for compulsarily preventing an individual from leaving their home or indeed, in the case of immigrants arriving in small pateras, confining them for a period of 14 days other than by obtaining an individual judicial order.
Last week, according to the Spanish regional media in Murcia, 40 Covid-positive patients were reported by the regional health authority for breaching the 14 day quarantine, creating potential situations in which other members of the public could be contaminated.
The Murcian government wants to see a clear legislative path which can be applied, making breach of quarantine a specific legal offence and with a clear definition of the sanctions which can be applied for such an offense, as is the case for failure to wear a mask in a public place for which 100 euros is the on-spot penalty.
63 percent of Spaniards believe Covid measures should be stricter
The July CIS survey is a barometer of public opinion about a wide range of subjects
The July survey produced by the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) is always interesting as a measure of public opinion on a wide range of subjects and at the moment the current Covid crisis is one of the principal topics of discussion.
Several topics relating to this subject are covered in a separate article; see 73% of Spaniards are in favour of fining for not wearing a mask outdoors.
Another question asked in the survey related to the measures being taken to combat the virus and in their responses 62.3 percent of Spaniards felt that more demanding measures than the current ones should be taken to combat the expansion of the coronavirus, compared to 32% who claim to be satisfied with the situation as it is.
Women were the most in favour of taking more stringent measures, with 64.9%, compared to men, with 59.5%.
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