In order to curb the outbreaks of COVID-19 that have occurred in recent days in Navarre and avoid contagion, the Department of Health is preparing new measures against the pandemic, as both EITB and News of Navarre have explained. These measures shall include the compulsory use of the mask in all public spaces, even when a distance of 1,5 metres is guaranteed.
The new manifestations of the coronavirus lead the Government of Navarra to tighten its measures. On Sunday, it was reported that in the last 24 hours 34 new cases of breast cancer had been detected in the Basque Country. The authorities have acknowledged that the focus of the Tudela wedding has stabilized, but that the outbreak in Pamplona related to a sanferminer breakfast has intensified and, on the other hand, at least three more outbreaks have been detected in Alta Navarra, one in Estella and its surroundings.
In the Basque Country, Navarre will be the first territory to fully generalize the use of the mask; in the CAV, Ordizia is the only municipality in which this measure has been implemented. On the other hand, more and more people in the Spanish State have begun the road of compulsion and the mask is already obligatory in Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Extremadura, Aragon, Andalusia and La Rioja.
The pandemic has revealed, in all its crudeness, the consequences of the neoliberal model of care for the elderly, children and the dependent population. Now is the time to consolidate the critical discourses and community alternatives that flourished during the lockdown.”... [+]