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Spanish capital introduces new restrictions amid new coronavirus spike

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The Madrid regional government is further restricting family reunions and social gatherings to curb a sharp spike in confirmed coronavirus cases as schools are set to reopen, although officials said that new infections in and around the Spanish capital were being brought under control.

Authorities said an existing ban on outdoor meetings of more than 10 people is being extended indoors because most recent infections have been tied to gatherings in private homes.

Attendance at funerals, burials, weddings and religious celebrations, as well as group visits to museums or guided tourism will also be restricted starting on Monday, authorities said.

Teachers and auxiliary staff take Covid-19 tests in Madrid, Spain (Bernat Armangue/AP)
Teachers and auxiliary staff take Covid-19 tests in Madrid, Spain (Bernat Armangue/AP)

Nearly one-third of Spain’s new virus infections are in and around Madrid, a region of 6.6 million with high population density and a hub for economic activity for the rest of the country.

At least 16% of the beds in Madrid’s hospitals are occupied by Covid-19 patients, the highest rate of all Spanish regions.

Regional health chief Enrique Ruiz Escudero said that despite the recent trends, “the situation has nothing to do with what we went through two months ago”.

“The pandemic in the Madrid community is stable and is controlled,” Ruiz Escudero said.

“We are not alarmed.”

A woman, wearing protective masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, opens a commercial store in the Plaza Mayor, in the centre of Madrid (Bernat Armangue/AP)
A woman, wearing protective masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, opens a commercial store in the Plaza Mayor, in the centre of Madrid (Bernat Armangue/AP)

Madrid is also expanding the number of contact tracers, which has been one of the weakest links in dealing with the new wave of virus cases, and purchasing two million rapid coronavirus test kits.

Spain, which is edging to a half-million confirmed cases since February, is leading the pandemic’s second wave in Europe.

The country had a rate of virus prevalence above 212 cases per 100,000 residents for the past two weeks.

At least 29,234 people have died in Spain during the pandemic.

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