New COVID19 measures have been introduced by the Spanish government as infection rates exceed one in 100 people in some of Madrid's worst-affected areas in the city and its outskirts, home to around 850,000 people
"We need to protest because of what they're doing right now in the various southern neighbourhoods - they are taking us and confining us," one demonstrator told Sky News."They want to be paid by the people of this neighbourhood. It isn't fair. We are lacking doctors. We have to reinforce the health services and reinforce the public health services. This isn't fair, it isn't fair.
At one stage it looked like the protest might turn violent when the riot police blocked access to a government building, but the demonstration ended peacefully. The Spanish health system reported an average of 10,000 new cases per day last week and almost 250 deaths in one day. It puts the country around six weeks ahead of the UK on current projections.Others are in favour of tougher restrictions, with worshippers at a Sunday mass in Madrid more sympathetic to the government's measures."If it was in my hands I would confine all of Spain to end this. This is because the people do not collaborate with the government safety measures.
A young food bank volunteer also told us:"On the one hand, it is better to have confinement as many people go out in the street without reason.
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