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The Madrid cities under the state of alarm: What you can and can’t do

The central government has used a decree to lock down the capital and eight other municipalities. Residents of these areas who break the rules could be fined

Passengers wait in line for a train at Madrid's Atocha station on Friday afternoon.
Passengers wait in line for a train at Madrid's Atocha station on Friday afternoon.Samuel Sanchez (EL PAÍS)
El País

The Spanish Cabinet on Friday declared a state of alarm in the Madrid region, in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus and after failing to reach an agreement with the regional government on the measures that should be implemented. The details of the state of alarm were passed via a decree and published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) at 5pm, coming into force from that moment.

The government opted to use a state of alarm to give the new coronavirus restrictions that were agreed on last week by a majority of the country’s regions a new legal framework, after the perimetral confinement of municipalities with a high incidence of the coronavirus was struck down by the Madrid High Court on Thursday.

The restrictions included in the BOE reintroduce the perimetral confinement of the capital and eight other municipalities in the region, and anyone trying to leave these areas for the long weekend – Monday is a national holiday – will face fines. Here are the measures now in place in the cities in question:

English version by Simon Hunter.

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