Date Published: 21/09/2020
ARCHIVED - Madrid launches a certificate to justify entry and exit within the 37 areas confined due to covid
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Workers will have to produce this as a justification for leaving one of the confined areas
The scale of the movement restrictions which began in Madrid on Monday 21st September is unprecendented outside of the state of emergency and the logistics of how to prevent movement in and out of the restricted areas has been the subject of significant comment.
In response, the Ministry of Health of the Madrid Government has launched a certificate that allows the bearer to justify the entry and exit to one of the 37 health areas in which the regional government has decreed restrictions to combat the coronavirus.
In its Twitter account, the Madrid Health Department has posted a link from which the certificate can be downloaded.
The standard text specifies that the individual concerned needs to exit/enter the restricted areas "to the workplace to fulfill their labor, professional or business obligations."
For its part, the company would have to re-indicate the name of the affected person and their DNI and would specify that they are "resident in one of the areas affected by the mobility restrictions established by Order 1178/2020, of September 18, of the Ministry of Health "as well as being " part of the company. "
To control the entry and exit of these areas, the State Security Forces and Corps will carry out random controls, which will be on an informative basis only during the first 48 hours, after which sanctions will be applied.
More than 850,000 Madrilenians, representing 13 percent of the population, are affected.
The entry and exit of people is restricted except to go to health centers, services and establishments, to comply with work, professional, business or legal obligations, to attend teaching and educational centers, to return to habitual residence, for the care of dependents or to travel to financial and insurance entities.
In addition, the exceptions include travel to carry out required or urgent actions before public, judicial or notarial bodies; carry out renewals of permits and official documentation, as well as other administrative procedures that cannot be postponed; take exams or official tests that cannot be postponed; due to force majeure or situation of necessity or by any other activity of a similar nature, duly justified and accredited.
Affected areas
In the capital Madrid, the affected areas are Puerta Bonita, Vista Alegre and Guayaba, in Carabanchel; Almendrales, Las Calesas, Zofío, Orcasur and San Fermín, in Usera; San Andrés, San Cristóbal, El Espinillo and Los Rosales, in Villaverde; the basic area of Villa de Vallecas; Entrevías, Martínez de la Riva, San Diego, Numancia, Peña Prieta, Pozo del Tío Raimundo, Ángela Uriarte, Alcalá de Guadaira and Federica Montseny, in the Puente de Vallecas district; and Doctor Cirajas, Ghandi, Daroca and La Elipa, in Ciudad Lineal.
In Fuenlabrada, the areas that will be perimeter will be those of Alicante, Cuzco and France. Also the municipalities of Humanes de Madrid and Moraleja de Enmedio, and in Parla, the basic health areas of San Blas and Isabel II. For its part, Getafe will be affected in Las Margaritas and Sánchez Morate; in San Sebastián de los Reyes, the area of Reyes Católicos; and in Alcobendas, the area of Chopera and Miraflores.
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