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Business as usual? Scant enforcement of Madrid's new lockdown

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MADRID - Madrid residents were largely coming-and-going as normal on Monday despite a prohibition on non-essential travel in the first European capital to return to lockdown due to the resurgent coron

avirus.

With 850 COVID-19 infections per 100,000 people, the Madrid area has Europe's highest rate, so 4.8 million people in the city and nine satellite towns came under new restrictions from Friday night. Worried about further economic damage, the conservative-led regional authority only reluctantly agreed to the new measures ordered by the socialist-led national government and launched a legal challenge. But the high court rejected a first appeal on Monday.Another student, Ines Torres, said she had seen little evidence of checkpoints around the Moncloa neighbourhood, which is home to Madrid's biggest university and one of the main intercity bus terminals.

The government has warned of fines for transgressors and some "Madrilenos" cancelled weekend leisure or family plans.

 

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