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ARCHIVED - Decision this evening about perimeter confinement of Murcia Region
Several regions of Spain have closed their borders to try and limit the spread of the virus
The Comité de Seguimiento Covid, the Covid Monitoring Comittee, the body set up by the regional government and health authority to analyse the covid data and make recommendations about the way in which the pandemic is being managed within the region, is meeting on Wednesday evening and will be discussing whether to impose a perimeter confinement on the region due to the continued increases in case numbers.
Today a further 911 new cases were diagnosed, and with pressure growing in the hospitals, which have also reported record admissions today, the topic of a border closure is reported to be on the table.
The committee is also studying the possibility of imposing border closures on several municipalities which have excessively high rates of contagion.
There is particular concern about the topic of movement around the country due to the All Saints and All Souls festivities this weekend, which is normally marked by family gatherings, very often family members driving back to their birthplace to pay their respects to deceased relatives.
Added to that, Monday is a Bank Holiday in the Comunidad de Madrid, Andalucía, Aragón, Asturias, Castilla-La Mancha and Extremadura, so many families would normally take a long weekend off and go away for a few days.
Monday is also a holiday in Murcia City on Monday.
Several regions have already announced the closure of their external borders (Aragón, Asturias, Navarra, La Rioja and the Basque Country ) and a similar move is being considered in others, amongst them Madrid. However, as is becoming normal in this pandemic, the regional president of Madrid is dithering, and failing to make a decision about whether she will prevent thousands of Madrid families heading to holiday homes all over the country this weekend, unnerving regions traditionally popular with Madrileneans during this holiday period, amongst them Murcia.
Should a perimeter confinement be decreed, those living in the region would only be permitted to leave for essential journeys and the same would apply to those wishing to enter the region.