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Spain: Police man Madrid checkpoints as movement restricted due to rising COVID cases

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Police were seen manning checkpoints at the borders of areas affected by mobility restrictions in Madrid on Saturday, which were put in place at 10pm the night before amid rising coronavirus cases.

The measures imposed by the Ministry of Health in the Spanish capital and nine towns in the Madrid region affect around 4.8 million people, and aim to contain the increase in COVID-19 infections.

From this weekend, Madrid residents in the affected areas will be able to move out of their districts for essential reasons only.

More than 700 police and Guardia Civil officers have reportedly been deployed since Friday night throughout the Madrid region to control the new restrictions on mobility.

The measures, which affect almost 70 per cent of the population of the Madrid region, include limiting capacity and business hours to 10pm and restaurants to 11pm. Family or social gatherings in both the public and private spheres are reduced to a maximum of six people.

Madrid authorities have gone to court to try to stop the restrictions imposed by the central government.

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SOT, Miguel Carballo, Madrid resident (Spanish): "I think the real application would be to do the same thing they did in March, to go back to phase one, if people took it seriously, because many of us wear masks with filters, but you still see people in the centre who wear them down, wear them here or don't wear them at all."

SOT, Paloma Martin, resident Madrid resident (Spanish): "I live far from home, so not being able to leave Madrid puts stops me of being able to visit my family, I am used to not seeing them very often but it is still something that they decide for you and they stop your life a little."

SOT, Javier Segovia, taxi driver (Spanish): "At work it is destroying us, the whole sector, because the hostelry industry and the taxi industry go hand in hand. If the hostelry industry does not work, neither does the taxi one."

SOT, Javier Segovia, taxi driver (Spanish): "Because it’s useless if that we can only take three people, but the underground and the bus are crowded. There is no point in taking these measures if they don’t close Barajas [airport], or make controls on people entering. It's not logical, nor normal that you can go to Berlin but a man from Parla cannot come to Madrid, it doesn't make sense, the rules that they have put in place now, the latest restrictions don't make any sense."

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