ARCHIVED - Catalan president recommends against travel to Madrid

He also asked the Madrid Government to take stricter measures to stop anyone from Madrid travelling unless they could provide a negative test

The president of the Catalan Generalitat recommended this morning against Catalan residents travelling to the Community of Madrid due to the rise in Covid-19 positives, which has resuted in the Government of Madrid confining 850,000 people from Monday onwards.

President Quim Torra also advocated establishing temperature controls in train stations and the airport for travelers from Madrid.

The president of the Catalan executive has also made a request to the president of the Madrid Government to establish "stricter measures", specifically, "that no one is allowed to leave or travel to Madrid if it is not certain that they are negative" in a test to detect COVID-19.

Torra said that the risk of a regrowth in the number of covid positives is rising again in Catalonia, where "the contagion index may rise above one this week".

Given this situation, Torra has proposed the closure of public parks if the rise in infections in the Catalan territory is confirmed during the next week to avoid crowds.

"We are not doing very well", commented the President of the Generalitat, who for this reason has called on the entire population, especially restaurateurs, to encourage the use of masks also on outdoor terraces or "we will have to take measures that we do not want to take, "he warned.
Image: Mass testing underway in Catalonia as part of the drive to stop the spread of covid.GVA.