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Juan José Mateo

POLITICS

Madrid region faces early election after infighting triggers political earthquake

Juan José Mateo/Manuel Viejo/Carlos E. Cué/El País|Madrid | 10-03-2021 - 13:39 UTC

When Ciudadanos turned on the Popular Party in southeastern Murcia, it was not expecting a chain reaction spreading all the way to Andalusia and Castilla y León

CORONAVIRUS

Madrid’s vaccination plan for teachers and over-80s mired in confusion

Juan José Mateo|Madrid | 24-02-2021 - 09:48 UTC

Healthcare centers are facing a frenetic countdown to begin inoculating 130,000 people, with the regional government giving only 48-hours notice of the drive

CORONAVIRUS

Madrid considering new restrictions on mobility and restaurant businesses

Juan José Mateo|Madrid | 23-09-2020 - 14:13 UTC

The region has also called for “urgent” support from Spain’s armed forces and more than 220 officers to enforce the selective lockdowns in 37 basic health areas

CORONAVIRUS

Spanish government pressures Madrid to take tougher action against Covid-19 epidemic

Carlos E. Cué/Juan José Mateo/El País|Madrid | 23-09-2020 - 09:06 UTC

The central executive is trying to get regional premier Isabel Díaz Ayuso to leave more decisions in the hands of her health team

CORONAVIRUS

Covid-19 incidence exceeds 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 16 areas of Madrid with no new restrictions

Juan José Mateo/Daniele Grasso|Madrid | 22-09-2020 - 11:19 UTC

Premier Isabel Díaz Ayuso warns that more neighborhoods may be placed under selective lockdown, while Health Minister Salvador Illa recommends residents in the region stay at home

CORONAVIRUS

Spanish PM meets Madrid chief over Covid-19 measures, warns of ‘very tough weeks ahead’

El País/Carlos E. Cué/Juan José Mateo|Madrid | 21-09-2020 - 15:15 UTC

The face-to-face between Pedro Sánchez and Isabel Díaz Ayuso signaled a thaw in months of frosty relations as both leaders insisted on the need for coordinated action against soaring transmission in the region

CORONAVIRUS

Madrid announces new restrictions on mobility to curb spike in Covid-19 cases

Isabel Valdés/Juan José Mateo|Madrid | 18-09-2020 - 15:34 UTC

The new measures will affect 37 basic health areas in the capital and in other municipalities with a very high incidence of coronavirus

CORONAVIRUS

Madrid asks central government for help amid chaotic handling of coronavirus crisis

Juan José Mateo/Isabel Valdés/Carlos E. Cué|Madrid | 17-09-2020 - 13:42 UTC

Deputy premier calls on PM Pedro Sánchez to “actively get involved,” and the latter suggests a face-to-face meeting with the regional leader

CORONAVIRUS

Chaos in Madrid, as regional government denies health chief’s announcement of new lockdowns

Isabel Valdés/Juan José Mateo/El País|Madrid | 16-09-2020 - 09:43 UTC

Sources close to the premier denied that any decisions have been made yet regarding stricter coronavirus measures, directly contradicting statements made earlier in the day by Antonio Zapatero

CORONAVIRUS

Madrid’s primary healthcare crisis: not enough doctors for so many patients

Isabel Valdés/Juan José Mateo/El País|Madrid | 15-09-2020 - 09:11 UTC

Regional leaders have pledged to invest €80 million to revamp an underresourced system, but professionals are skeptical as they struggle to cope with a second wave of Covid-19

SPANISH SCHOOLS

Sudden call for Covid-19 antibody testing creates long lines of teaching staff on Madrid streets

Victoria Torres Benayas/Juan José Mateo/Nicholas Dale|Madrid | 02-09-2020 - 11:33 UTC

Teachers and unions heap criticism on regional government for summoning them on a 24-hour notice and for asking a private company to handle the procedure

CORONAVIRUS

Madrid will delay start of school term for some students and bring down class sizes

Berta Ferrero/Juan José Mateo|Madrid | 25-08-2020 - 12:53 UTC

Regional premier Isabel Díaz Ayuso also announced on Tuesday the temporary hiring of nearly 11,000 teachers, and 100,000 coronavirus antibody tests for staff

CORONAVIRUS PROTESTS

Government delegate in Madrid: “Predicting the anti-mask demonstration would have been impossible”

Juan José Mateo|Madrid | 18-08-2020 - 09:59 UTC

José Manuel Franco tells EL PAÍS that Sunday's protest in Colón square was communicated to the authorities as being about other issues, such as freedom of expression

CORONAVIRUS

Madrid Fire Department on coronavirus crisis in care homes: ‘There are bodies that no one has collected’

Juan José Mateo|Madrid | 24-06-2020 - 12:25 UTC

According to official documents seen by EL PAÍS, firefighters were called upon to remove 185 corpses from senior residences in the region

CORONAVIRUS

Spain reports 156 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours and 32 deaths in a week

Juan José Mateo/Fernando Peinado|Madrid | 12-06-2020 - 08:59 UTC

The Spanish Health Ministry has still not updated the total number of victims, which stands at 27,136 for the fifth day running

CORONAVIRUS

Scandal over Covid-19 deaths at Madrid nursing homes sparks fierce political row

Inés Santaeulalia/Fernando Peinado/Elena G. Sevillano/Juan José Mateo/El País|Madrid | 10-06-2020 - 11:22 UTC

Regional and central government officials have warned of legal consequences after EL PAÍS revealed that internal protocols excluded some coronavirus patients from hospital admission

CORONAVIRUS

Spain records single coronavirus death in 24-hour period

Jessica Mouzo/El País/Juan José Mateo|Madrid / Barcelona | 29-05-2020 - 09:08 UTC

Despite the drop, the Madrid region is preparing for the possibility of new outbreaks as the country scales down confinement measures

CORONAVIRUS

In Spain, Valencia stands alone in not requesting looser lockdown

Oriol Güell/El País/Juan José Mateo|Madrid / Barcelona | 21-05-2020 - 10:06 UTC

Unlike most other parts of the country, the Mediterranean region has not asked the Health Ministry to move to Phase 2 of the coronavirus deescalation plan

CORONAVIRUS

Spanish government announces areas that will move to the next phase of coronavirus deescalation

Juan Carlos Espinosa/Emilio de Benito/Juan José Mateo/Isabel Valdés/El País|Madrid | 08-05-2020 - 10:11 UTC

The administration has rejected the Madrid region’s request to transition to Phase 1, “opting to wait until its primary care detection system is more robust”

CORONAVIRUS

Coronavirus deaths in Madrid for second half of March could exceed official figures by 3,000

Reyes Rincón/Elena G. Sevillano/Juan José Mateo|Madrid | 08-04-2020 - 09:47 UTC

Deputy regional premier admits that as many as 3,479 of the people who died last month inside the region’s senior centers showed symptoms but were never counted as official victims of Covid-19

CORONAVIRUS

Madrid region closes all stores apart from those selling foodstuffs

Juan José Mateo/Berta Ferrero|Madrid | 14-03-2020 - 08:06 UTC

The restrictions come on the back of the closure of bars and restaurants, but pharmacies, tobacconists and newstands will still be open for business

CORONAVIRUS

Ten million students told to stay home in Spain in bid to slow spread of coronavirus

Berta Ferrero/Pablo Linde/Juan José Mateo/El País/Ana Torres Menárguez/Ignacio Zafra|Madrid | 12-03-2020 - 11:43 UTC

Madrid mayor is considering closing bars and restaurants as cases in the region reach 2,000

IMMIGRATION

Spanish explosives experts defuse grenade at Madrid center for minors

Juan José Mateo/Manuel Viejo/Óscar López-Fonseca|Madrid | 04-12-2019 - 15:14 UTC

The facility has been criticized in the past by far-right groups who claim it is housing young foreign criminals

Politics

Madrid chief’s talk of “burning churches” upsets Popular Party colleagues

Natalia Junquera/El País/Juan José Mateo|Madrid | 04-10-2019 - 08:46 UTC

Regional premier Isabel Díaz Ayuso was attacking the plans of caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to exhume ex-dictator Francisco Franco, but the comments are out of step with the conservative group’s strategy for the upcoming election campaign

SPANISH POLITICS

Madrid region gets its first government propped up by the far right

El País/Juan José Mateo | 14-08-2019 - 16:16 UTC

Conservative candidate Isabel Díaz Ayuso was confirmed as the new leader following a tense debate at the regional assembly

POLITICS

Conservative parties strike deal to govern Madrid region

Juan José Mateo|Madrid | 02-08-2019 - 08:55 UTC

Isabel Díaz Ayuso from the Popular Party is set to become the next premier after Ciudadanos agreed to accept the demands made by the far-right group Vox

POLITICS

In Spain, political gridlock increases likelihood of fresh elections – again

J.M./J.J.M./G.R.-P./El País/A.D.|Madrid | 10-07-2019 - 08:14 UTC

With less than two weeks to go until the investiture vote, the Socialist Party is no closer to a deal as negotiations with the leftist Unidas Podemos remain at an impasse

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