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Newshour: 20/09/2020 20:06 GMT: Partial lockdown in poorer areas of Madrid

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Partial lockdown in poorer areas of Madrid

20/09/2020 20:06 GMT

20/09/2020 20:06 GMT: Partial lockdown in poorer areas of Madrid

BBC World Service - Newshour, Partial lockdown in poorer areas of Madrid

Madrid region orders a partial lockdown in poorer areas with high levels of coronavirus

Spain's capital Madrid is one of the places worst hit by the second wave of coronavirus in Europe. So the regional government has ordered a partial lockdown in certain areas with the highest levels of Covid-19 infections. These neighbourhoods are the poorer areas of the capital, often with many immigrants. And they feel they are being unfairly targeted by the conservative regional government which is attempting to impose a form of social segregation.

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(Photo: Residents of Madrid's southern neighborhood of Usera protest against confinement measures imposed by Madrid's regional government only to certain districts, that the demonstrators consider as a "segregation", in Madrid, central Spain, 20 September 2020. The regional government say that the measures are necessary because of the rise of cases of coronavirus in these areas. Credit: EPA/Fernando Villar)

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