Simón defends that celebrating Easter is not the same as 8-M because “in one step they all go together”

With a month to go before Holy Week arrives in Spain, the different institutions are beginning to plan the measures to be carried out so that there are no crowds that again produce an increase in the contagion curve. Some policies that everything indicates that they will prohibit the steps, although criticism has already been raised because on March 8 there will be marches in favor of women’s rights of up to 500 people. In this regard, the director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES), Fernando Simón, has made it clear that “it is not the same”.

“Let no one get angry about it,” Simón began, before remarking that “being under a 2,000-kilo step, carried by many people, is not the same as being in a demonstration of 500 people where it can easily spread” . In this way, and making it clear that “I am not an expert in these things”, the director of the CCAES has added more controversy to the fact that there are no celebrations at Easter while in a week massive mobilizations are expected throughout Spain.

Some mobilizations, for 8-M, which in 2020 occurred just before the start of the pandemic and were branded from many sectors as a “biological bomb” that triggered the first great peak of infections in Spain. For this 2021, even in the midst of a complicated situation due to the coronavirus, the Government has already authorized marches of up to 500 people in Madrid.

| Simón, on whether he believes that the limit of 500 people for the 8M can be applied in the Holy Week processions: “Let no one bother, but it is not the same to be under a step carried by many people than in a march where can scatter people”

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Not so with regard to Easter, for which measures are already being considered that seem to indicate that there will be no steps and celebrations even if they were controlled and with limited capacity. “The approach for Easter has to be very careful,” Simón pointed out before remarking that “common measures cannot be proposed because the epidemiological situation is very different” between the autonomous communities.

Next week there will be a draft

Thus, the director of the CCAES hopes that “next week or the following week at the latest” there will be a draft. A document that will be based on the current incidence and that could be modified if the situation changes greatly in the Spanish regions within a month.

“Please, no one with symptoms goes to the marches”

“If the appropriate risk control measures are maintained, in any area in which populations come together, the risks are reduced. That said, if large groups of people can be avoided, much better,” Simón closed, warning that “No one with symptoms goes there.”