The only ten Spanish cities affected by the Health criteria to apply restrictions are in Madrid
The Government and the Community of Madrid have agreed to bring to the Interterritorial Health Council criteria on which indicators would mark the adoption of stricter measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants throughout Spain. In practice, only 10 localities in the Community of Madrid comply with the scales set out by the Ministry of Health.
The list focuses on Fuenlabrada, Parla, Alcobendas, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Getafe, Leganés, Móstoles and Alcalá de Henares, whose accumulated incidence of the disease exceeds 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days. At the level set by Minister Salvador Illa is also the Navarran capital, Pamplona.
However, after the meeting between the Community of Madrid and the Government, the Ministry of Health has also added that, in addition to the incidence, the percentage of positive PCR tests for SARS-Cov-2 will be taken into account, with a threshold of 10%, and ICU occupancy capped at 35% to implement more severe restrictions. All always subject to approval in the Council, as Minister Illa recalled. The Provincial Government of Navarra ensures that Pamplona no longer enters that group once more criteria have been incorporated because its ICUs are not very busy.
For the positivity of the tests, the limit has been placed at 10%. This is that of every ten PCR tests done, one or more confirms a case of COVID-19. The Community of Madrid, in general, exceeds 20% positivity at this time. This indicates that you are running late in tracing and tracking contagion chains from when a positive is located. Early detection involves tracing the contacts of confirmed patients quickly so that they cannot, in turn, spread the virus without knowing they carry it. Although Health does not offer data broken down by municipalities, Madrid cities such as Fuenlabrada and Parla have an incidence of more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, Alcobendas exceeds 900, Torrejón, Madrid, Getafe, Alcorcón or Leganés exceed 700 cases, well above the minimum marked by Health and the Community, which also points to a high positivity in the tests. In Pamplona, says the Navarrese Executive, the positivity is at 10.2%.
Likewise, this pre-agreement includes that the occupation of the intensive care units is at 35%. "Pamplona does not meet the criteria, "says the Provincial Government, which quantifies the occupancy at 22%." In Pamplona there are almost all the ICU beds in the entire Autonomous Community, except for about 10 located in Tudela ", they clarify. the Community of Madrid,Although all these cities have at least one hospital in the public network (although of a different range of complexity), the occupancy rates of their ICUs are not public. In addition, since Madrid is a single-province community, referrals between centers are possible, as could happen between the Infanta Sofía hospital, close to Alcobendas, and the La Paz hospital or Parla and October 12. In any case, the average occupancy of ICUs in the Community of Madrid exceeds 40% of the usual beds available in hospitals.
