Sanchez imposes the mandatory outdoor mask

Melchor Sáiz-Pardoy Paula de las Heras Madrid

The masks return to open spaces from Friday but there will be no more restrictions this vacation "because we are not in March 2020 and we are not at Christmas of 2020" as Pedro Sánchez explained.The president announced today at the Presidents Conference that this Thursday an extraordinary and monographic council of ministers will approve a decree law to make the use of the mandbocas outward six exact months after ceasing to stop being mandatory in the street.Although there will be exceptions - like that of sports, natural spaces or places only shared with co -man1.5 meters away from security.

The return of the outdoor masks from 24 and the implementation of a sort of 'shock plan' against an omicron with sanitary and vaccination reinforcements will be the commitment of the central government to stop a sixth wave that on Tuesday threw figures againcontagios records of the entire pandemic with more than 60.000 new cases in just 24 hours.And Moncloa, without too much internal debate and before listening to the opinion of the 19 regional leaders, had definitely ruled out embarking on hasty and improper legal modifications to expand the restrictions just 48 hours after the beginning of Christmas.

Nor left touches as Catalonia requested or limit at the national level agoros and schedules in the hospitality industry as Euskadi claimed.The presidents of both communities, together with those of Galicia and Andalucía, were during the intergovernmental meeting the most critical with the measures announced by Sánchez, which called "insufficient" to stop the sixth onslaught of the virus.At the other end was Madrid, which rejected the imposition of the mask for considering it unnecessary.

Measure battery

MASKS

The obligation to use outdoor masks is established.

Vaccination equipment

Reinforcement of devices with FFAA vaccination equipment as well as making hospitals of the military health network available.

Human Resources Reinforcement

Hiring retired and pre -retired health personnel and

authorization for hiring professionals with a title of

Specialist obtained in non -EU states.

ATTENTION PLAN

Primary and community

Increase the number of available health professionals and

improve your working conditions, reducing temporality

Below 8%.

292

MILLIONS

General Budgets

Of the State

The PGE will allocate 292 million euros to this plan, most transferred to the Autonomous Communities.

Vaccination with the third dose

60-69 years: 80% of the population before the end of the year.

50-59 years: 80% of the population in the week of January 24.

40-49 years: 80% of the population in the first week of March.

Between 5-11 years: 70% with the first pediatric dose in the week of February 7.

Between 5 and 11 years: 70% with the second pediatric dose in the week of April 19.

TEST

Temporary authorizations will be issued to allow the sale in pharmacies of certain tests of professional use antigens so that they are available to the entire population.

Validity Vaccines

As approved by the European Commission, as of February 1, 2022, within the Covid Digital Green Certificate, the period of validity of vaccination will be 9 months from the date of the administration of the last dose.

Quarantine

People who have had direct contact with a

infected should not perform quarantine if they are vaccinated with full pattern.

Graph r.C.

Source: Government of Spain.

Measure battery

MASKS

The obligation to use outdoor masks is established.

Vaccination equipment

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Reinforcement of devices with FFAA vaccination equipment as well as making hospitals of the military health network available.

Human Resources Reinforcement

Hiring retired and pre -retired health personnel and

authorization for hiring professionals with a title of

Specialist obtained in non -EU states.

ATTENTION PLAN Primary and community

Increase the number of available health professionals and

improve your working conditions, reducing temporality

Below 8%.

292

General Budgets Of the State

The PGE will allocate 292 million euros to this plan, most transferred to the Autonomous Communities.

MILLIONS

Vaccination with the third dose

60-69 years: 80% of the population before the end of the year.

50-59 years: 80% of the population in the week of January 24.

40-49 years: 80% of the population in the first week of March.

Between 5-11 years: 70% with the first pediatric dose in the week of February 7.

Between 5 and 11 years: 70% with the second pediatric dose in the week of April 19.

TEST

Temporary authorizations will be issued to allow the sale in pharmacies of certain tests of professional use antigens so that they are available to the entire population.

Validity Vaccines

As approved by the European Commission, as of February 1, 2022, within the Covid Digital Green Certificate,

The validity period of vaccination will be 9 months from the date of the administration of the last dose.

Quarantine

People who have had direct contact with a

infected should not perform quarantine if they are vaccinated with full pattern.

Graph r.C.

Source: Government of Spain.

Thus, Sánchez decided to trust everything to expand the use of tapping these vacations and the common sense before the avalanche of social and family meetings that are coming and that will not have any type of limitation, or within the homes or in the premises of hostelry.

Last June

The mask ceased to be mandatory in open spaces on June 25, through a royal decree that partially modified Law 2/2021 of 'Urgent measures of prevention, containment and coordination to deal with the health crisis' and which wasthe one that made mandatory the use of tapping.Now, a new decree, in principle, will return to the writing that was changed last summer, when the measures were relaxed by the improvement of the pandemic situation after overcoming the fourth wave.

The article that was modified last June when Spain as a whole had an incidence of just 95 cases every 100.000 inhabitants (compared to 784 marked this Wednesday) and the daily infections dropped from 5.000 established the "mandatory use of masks" above six years in "public roads, in outdoor spaces and in any closed space for public use or is open to the public".He only admitted the exceptions of "people who present some kind of disease or respiratory distress," disabled who could not use it or "in the case of individual outdoor sports exercise", love "the assumptions of force majeure or need of necessityor when, due to the nature of the activities, the use of the mask is incompatible, in accordance with the indications of the health authorities ».

Generalized demand

With the return of the tapping in the open spaces, the head of the Central Executive decided to make the express demand of much of the regional presidents.The Head of Government of Castilla y León, Navarra, Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Valencian Community, Galicia, Basque Country, Canary Islands or Catalonia had insisted on claiming the return of facial protection.A measure that only the government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso was openly opposed in Madrid.

Beyond the imposition of the return of the outdoor masks, Sánchez refused in round to other additional restrictions, which he could have ordered by decree, such as setting new aforers in hospitality, leisure and events;o Establish time limitations in bars, restaurants or discos.

Neither, and that was clear from Moncloa since last summer, the central executive was going to decree a new alarm state to cut fundamental rights and impose measures such as the curfew;the perimeter closure of certain areas or limitations in family or cult gathers.

With this premise of not bringing to the extreme the restrictions only 48 hours from Christmas Eve, Pedro Sánchez and Health instead of implementing large restrictions for Christmas, they opted to announce a kind of 'shock plan' against the omicron onslaught: a set ofoperational measures, especially to "intensify and accelerate" the vaccination process and reduce tension in primary care.

Thus, the President promised the reinforcement of the devices with vaccination equipment of the Armed Forces, also make available hospitals of the Military Health Network of Madrid and Zaragoza to accelerate the inoculation.

All this with the aim of giving a strong push to immunity with a millimeter calendar: 80% of the population between 60-69 years vaccinated with third dose before the end of the year;80% between 50-59 years in the week of January 24;80% between 40-49 years in the first week of March;70% with the first pediatric dose in the week of February 7;and 70% with the second pediatric dose in the week of April 19.

Operational improvements

En esa línea de anuncios de mejoras operativas sanitarias para tratar de frenar la sexta ola evitando grandes restricciones como las de 2020, Sánchez también adelantó que el Ejecutivo central va a autorizar la contratación de personal sanitario jubilado y prejubilado y que va a autorizar la contratación de profesionales con título de Specialist obtained in non -EU states. Además, se va aumentar el número de profesionales sanitarios disponibles y improve your working conditions, reducing temporality Below 8%.The General State Budgets will allocate 292 million of euros, most transferred to the CCAA, for this shock plan against omicron expansion.

And a little more.The president, who made his ads before listening to the proposals of the regional presidents, limited heThey have the complete pattern or decision of the health authorities of the central government of issuing temporary authorizations to allow the sale in pharmacies of certain tests of professional use antigens so that they are available to the entire population.

The only nod to Sánchez's co -government after announcing his measures without waiting for the debate was the promise that there will be "periodic meetings of the Presidents Conference while this sixth wave lasts".And is that the last call of this forum took place in Salamanca on July 30.