Nightlife cries COVID-19 passport measures against the will of Health and insists that it would avoid bottles and illegal parties without security measures - The Ministry of Health has ruled out for now the implementation of the Certificate Digital Health to enter the local nightlife and in the sector have put the cry in the sky when you consider the decision a “recklessness health”, as they warn it will cause an “economic disaster” with the already battered nightlife sector affected by the restrictions and closures.

The National Federation of Employers of Leisure and entertainment (Spain Night) has been criticized in a press release that the central Government did not give the green light in the Commission inter-Territorial passport Covid European Union to create bubbles of leisure insurance, and calls for its implementation, “immediate”, adopting policy measures that are necessary to recover the activity of the local entertainment.

In addition, it demands the establishment of the Covid passport as a barrier to combat bottles and illegal parties, as well as to be able to plan the immediate de-escalation of SMEs in the recreational sector, which after 500 days of closure and severe restrictions accumulate losses of up to 550,000 euros.

The sector already launched this proposal in the last edition of Fitur, when it raised the possibility of creating the bubbles of safe leisure using health certificates, vaccination cards and antigen tests as a way to guarantee the health safety of leisure premises.

Nightlife cries COVID-19 passport measures

Therefore, from Spain at Night don't understand the reluctance of the Ministry of Health about this tool and remind the executive of Pedro Sánchez, the fifth wave and the outbreak of hiv infections among the youth population has been the result of “mismanagement” of the central Government and its “inability to coordinate with the autonomous communities,” the end of the state of alarm, that I end up resulting in a “chaos is associated with the poor planning of the curfew and the proliferation of the pitcher and the chaos of the youth leisure”.

“ Unfortunately the chaos of the bottles, the clandestine parties of graduation, San Juan and the arrival of the holidays, which has had disastrous consequences and caused a fifth wave of Covid that could have been perfectly avoided", denounces Spain at Night, as he warned a month before the end of the state of alarm.

For this reason, the employers ' association of leisure facilities does not give credit and assures that appealing to equity and non-discrimination to resist applying the vaccination card is “a joke of bad taste that demonstrates the disconnection of politicians with the real world”.

Nightlife cries COVID-19 passport measures

"To propose that the health certificate can not be used until the entire population is vaccinated, is a senseless occurrence, because at that time the vaccination card will no longer be needed at all, taking into account that the European Union created this certificate, precisely to accelerate the progressive recovery of mobility and associated economic activity”, remark from the federation, who remember that 75% of the target population over 12 years is already vaccinated with first dose.

Another of the arguments given by the employers to defend the covid passport is that it would motivate the most reluctant population to get vaccinated, such as young people, to enjoy greater mobility and their desired leisure spaces and shows.

In this context, and when Galicia and the Canary Islands have already taken the first step, approving the use of health certificates and Navarra has facilitated the performance of antigen tests in pharmacies themselves, for Spain at Night it is necessary “to end this chaos and implement a harmonized model of intervention”.

Nightlife cries COVID-19 passport measures

It also calls for all the resources to overcome the new crisis caused by the fifth wave and to implement, in the near future, all the knowledge, techniques and health advances available.

The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, has rejected the request of several autonomous communities, including Madrid and Galicia, to use the covid passport as a safe conduct to access bars and nightlife venues.

Thus Darias contradicted the Minister of Industry, Reyes Maroto, who said that the government was considering applying these measures as a form of prevention before the fifth wave.

” The position of the Ministry is that the uses that are currently regulated are those allowed by the EU itself and that also have the support of legal regulations of the European Parliament, " he said, so expanding the uses would lack legal protection.

Nightlife cries COVID-19 passport measures

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The Government extends the social shield until October 31: these are the measures that will continue to be valid

The coalition Government has agreed to extend the social shield measures until 31 October. These extraordinary measures of protection for the most vulnerable groups ended on 9 August, after the last agreement signed in May.

President Pedro Sánchez announced at a press conference that the extension will be signed at the next Council of Ministers, which will take place on Tuesday, August 3.

Talks to close this new extension have been held between the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, led by Ione Belarra, and the Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, led by Félix Bolaños. Finally, both positions have managed to reach an agreement that will crystallize next week.

Social protection measures against the coronavirus are included in Royal Decree-Law 8/2021. Among them are the suspension of evictions when there is no alternative housing, the prohibition of electricity, water and gas cuts and the moratorium on the payment of rents.

Other important aspects of this Royal Decree are the extension of the right to a social bonus for certain groups and urgent measures to combat economic vulnerability in the area of housing and transport.

Services to assist victims of gender-based violence will continue to be considered essential. The use of the cooperative education and promotion fund, which aims to alleviate the effects of the pandemic, also continues to be made more flexible.

The intention of Unidas Podemos was to extend the social shield until December 31, 2021, as Ione Belarra sent in a letter addressed to the rest of the Government ministries.

"We are again witnessing an increase in the cumulative incidence and contagion rates of COVID 19, so the pandemic is far from disappearing. This situation will undoubtedly affect very negatively the summer tourism campaign, especially with respect to the activity generated by the arrival of foreign tourists, with the consequent impact of economic and labor nature that we already know", Belarra listed in his letter, emphasizing the importance of extending the measures.

Finally, the decree will be extended until October 31, although another extension would not be ruled out if the situation of the coronavirus pandemic worsens again in the coming months.