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As Europe faces a second wave, new lockdowns in Madrid have been met with protests.
Residents of Madrid took to the streets on Sunday to protest the renewed lockdown of dozens of areas across the Spanish capital, largely in working-class suburbs that are most densely populated.
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The city has once again become the center of the pandemic in Spain, where new cases throughout the country have risen to more than 10,000 per day on average over the last week, exceeding the level the country had seen earlier this spring, when it was one of the worst-hit nations in Europe.
The latest lockdown measures in Madrid, which come into force on Monday, will affect about 850,000 residents in the city and the surrounding Madrid region. Residents in the 37 areas that have been placed under lockdown will be allowed to travel outside their specified zones only for essential activities, like work, school or emergency medical care.
The restrictions in the working-class areas, spurred by an especially steep increase in cases there, display yet again the disproportionate impact the virus has had on many poorer communities across the globe.
Protests were held in several of the locked-down areas south of the city, while hundreds of demonstrators also gathered on Sunday before the regional parliament to demand the resignation of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Madrid’s regional leader.
Ms. Díaz Ayuso had last week blamed in part the “way of life” of immigrants for the spike in cases — a comment that she later attempted to clarify but nevertheless quickly drew sharp criticism.
Madrid’s regional authorities said they are prepared to reopen a large field hospital that was used in the spring if hospitals become overwhelmed. Though deaths in Spain have not risen to the levels seen earlier this year, Madrid authorities on Sunday said that 37 people had died of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, while there are about 4,000 patients in hospitals, some 300 of whom are in intensive care units.
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Spain is not alone in confronting a resurgent virus, as much of Europe scrambles to avoid another round of widespread lockdowns.
Britain’s health secretary, Matt Hancock, warned on Sunday that “the nation faces a tipping point,” urging Britons to follow restrictions or face potentially harsher ones.
Britain will impose fines of at least 1,000 pounds, about $1,300, on those who do not self-isolate after testing positive for the virus or who leave their home after being traced as a close contact of someone who has. The fines, which begin on Sept. 28, can increase to a maximum of £10,000 for repeat offenders or for the most serious breaches.
Israel is again under a nationwide lockdown for at least three weeks. The new lockdown began on Friday, the eve of the Jewish New Year holiday, and comes barely four months after Israel emerged from its last lockdown — too hastily, many critics said — and as its per capita infection rate rose to among the highest in the world. More than 1,100 people in the country have died from the virus.
The public sector and some private businesses will continue to work under tight limitations, and citizens will only be allowed to move within 500 meters of their homes. Schools are closed for the duration of the lockdown.
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