The Government shields itself in the communities and avoids specifying its plan before the sixth wave: “Prudence and tranquility”

Three days before Christmas Eve and 24 hours before the Conference of Presidents, with the runaway coronavirus infections and Spain in very high risk, the Government prefers not to detail what its plan to tackle the sixth wave.

Before Wednesday’s appointment, different autonomies They have specified what measures they propose. Catalonia has been by far the one that has gone the furthest, announcing the closure of nightlife, the limitation of capacity in bars and restaurants and a curfew from 1 to 6 in the morning, restrictions that require the endorsement of the courts. Other communities influence the need to limit the mass events and retrieve the mask outside. But the Government continues without specifying. The chief executive did not do it on Sunday, Pedro Sanchez, When calling the imminent appointment with the regional leaders and the spokesperson did not do so this Tuesday, Isabel rodriguez, after the Council of Ministers. According to Moncloa sources, the Government will express its opinion at Wednesday’s meeting, not before, because it does not want to give the impression that it has already arrived at the appointment with the decisions taken.

“Prudence and tranquility & rdquor ;, Rodríguez has repeated over and over again, insisting that decisions will be made with the communities, who are the ones who have to apply them, and especially in that the current situation, due to the vaccination, is very different from last year, when with infections well below the levels of these days the hospital occupation he was much older.

“Maximum respect”

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“Today we can say that we are more prepared, that we have more instruments and experience. The Conference is going to be a good moment to put it in value & rdquor ;, the spokesperson continued, implying that the Government is not in favor of measures as drastic as the curfew announced by the Generalitat. Even so, Rodríguez has indicated that this initiative, like others in the rest of the territories, elicits the “maximum respect & rdquor; in the Executive.

But government technicians have been trying for weeks to persuade the president of the need to take measures in the face of the advance of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, much more infectious than the previous ones. As EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA has advanced, experts from the Ministry of Health and the communities, within the framework of the Alert Presentation, Preparedness and Response Plans, have been proposing since the beginning of December measures such as reducing the capacity in restaurants or closing directly the interiors of these establishments, close the nightlife and limit the public to 50% at mass events. Rodríguez has refused to clarify whether the Government will defend these proposals. Nor has it explained whether Sánchez will propose a catalog of initiatives or will limit himself to listening to the communities. “Prudence and tranquility & rdquor ;, stressed the spokesperson.