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ARCHIVED - Spanish Government continues to refuse permission for full regional lockdowns
The Government maintains that the regional authorities have sufficient powers now to bring down cases without the need for a full lockdown
The Spanish government continues to resist calls for regional governments to be allowed to confine residents to their homes in an attempt to curb the third wave of coronavirus contagion, but the pressure on the PSOE-Podemos coalition is growing, with at least four Autonomous Communities now having requested the power to impose stricter lockdown measures.
The governments of Murcia, Andalucía, Castilla y León and Asturias have all asked to be empowered to re-introduce measures similar to those which were in place between March and May last year as Covid incidence rates rise alarmingly and both Extremadura and Castilla La Mancha are not ruling out the possibility of putting in a formal request. Cynics might be tempted to point to the fact that Murcia, Andalucía and Castilla y León are all currently governed by the opposition PP party, which is keen to imply that the socialist government is not doing enough at a national level to slow the spread of the virus, but in Asturias this is not the case and the demand for stricter measures has been made despite the incidence rate there being lower than in any other mainland region of Spain, according to the latest daily update published by the Ministry of Health.
It is worth pointing out that the political pressure being applied by these same regions back in May last year was for the national government to yield control of the measures applied back to the autonomous regions, and this is what the national government has chosen to do and a path to which it has struck rigidly ever since, refusing time and time again to centralise the covid control measures, instead allowing each regional government to control its own local population.
However, the national government continues to insist resolutely that the measures already being taken by its regional counterparts will be sufficient to flatten out the rising curves and then bring the numbers down, aided by the ever-increasing number of people who have already received the first dose of the vaccine (676,000, according to the official update on Thursday).
In the meantime, unable to impose a total lockdown, some regional governments are calling on people to self-isolate voluntarily. In Murcia it is no longer permitted to meet people socially even, for example, on a park bench, with socializing restricted to members of the same household, in Madrid the start of the night-time curfew has been brought forward to 23.00, and in Andalucía the regional vice-president has called on people to self-isolate in the face of the “explosion” of infections throughout the region.
In Asturias, the regional president Adrián Barbón has issued a similar request as a response to the “drama” of the situation, and in Castilla y León the regional health minister, Verónica Casado, has been demanding permission to confine people to their homes for the last few days as the number of new cases reaches “dizzying” levels.
The number of restrictions being placed by local governments is growing every day as governments attempt to catch a horse which bolted off during the festive period when measures were relaxed and then ignored.
On Friday evening the Health Ministry reported more than 40,000 cases, the highest figure ever reported in a single day in Spain since the pandemic began.
Update: On Saturday mornng the national Health Minister, Salvador Illa, once again rejected calls for a national lockdown, but said that the government was open to discussing revisions in the state of alarm, such as moving the curfew hour forward: "If we have to revise the times of the curfew, this will be done after talking to everyone and will be done with the maximum legal guarantees, " he said, referring to the situation yesterday in which Castilla y León had been refused permission by the government to bring forward its curfew to 8pm in the evening. The government stated that the curfew should not begin before 10pm in the evening, but the CyL Government had replied that it would disregard the wishes of the government and move the curfew in its region forward to 8pm due to the recent surge in new cases.
Several regions have moved their curfews forward in the last few days in an attempt to limit socialising.
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