A Madrid Emergency Service (SUMMA) health worker checks the temperature of a man prior to a rapid antigen test for COVID-19 in the southern neighbourhood of Vallecas in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020.
About 5.2 million people in Spain, including nearly 4.8 million residents in or around Madrid, are under restrictions on movement due to the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
(AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)MADRID – A court in Madrid on Thursday struck down a national government order that imposed a partial lockdown in the Spanish capital and its suburbs, siding with regional officials who had resisted stricter measures against one of Europe’s most worrying virus clusters.
Casado also called for the health minister to step down for promoting measures that he claimed politically targeted the Madrid region.
Experts say numbers in all countries understate the true toll of the virus due to limited testing, missed cases, government concealment and other factors.