Coronavirus lockdown in Madrid so why are fans allowed to Liverpool?

[Native]

Source: Liverpool Echo

It is believed that around 3,000 fans from Madrid will either already be in Liverpool or will be arriving today for the second leg of their Champions League last 16 clash with the Reds at Anfield.

The Spanish city has seen a major outbreak of the virus - of Spain's 1646 confirmed cases, a huge 782 of them have been in the Madrid region, with 35 deaths. Schools and colleges in the city have been shut down and all public events involving more than 1,000 people have also been banned with all La Liga games across the country now being played behind closed doors.

So as the Daily Mirror's northern football correspondent David Maddock put it on twitter: "That means it is illegal for Atletico Madrid fans to watch their own team in their own stadium, or travel to upcoming games in Bilbao or Pamplona, for fear of the very real risk of spreading the deadly virus and creating a pandemic.

"And yet those same fans (thousands of them) ARE allowed to travel to the UK for the CL game at Anfield - through several major transport hubs - and mingle with the population of Liverpool over several days, without tests or restrictions."

Read more: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/3000-atletico-fans-travel-coronavirus-17902323

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54,000 fans are expected at the game. And supposedly, "Liverpool's hands are tied without clear advice from the government and can do nothing to stop the free movement of football fans under current legislation."

[CanonRay]

1. Excellent question. Boris is handling things about as well as Trump.

[Moostache]

2. Can do nothing? I call BS!

Cancel the spectators for fuck's sake!!! If you knowingly allow potentially exposed people to intermingle and do so in crowded places for hours on end, you should be held responsible by law and spend a long time in prison for putting profits above humans...

[enough]

3. It's part of Boris' plan for the UK to just "take it on the chin" and let the

disease just run its course through the population. (As he said in the video posted yesterday.)

[defacto7]

7. In short, cull the population to increase wealth.

[mcar]

4. Will Boris be there shaking hands?

What an idiot!

[Native]

6. Maybe he'll attend the Cheltenham Festival - 225,000 expected to attend - now thru the 13th!

[Thyla]

5. A mixture of British and Spanish failure to contain things.

UK should be not be allowing people in from badly infected countries without a quarantine period and should probably be playing events behind closed doors.

Here in Spain on the other hand Madrid should be on full lock down, nobody in or out. Instead they have closed all the universities which has sent all their students back home across the country. This will not end well.
A recent tweet from Madrids president as follows....

The president of Madrid insists on Twitter that "at no time has an alleged closure of the region been assessed" and warns against "false news"

So they haven't even considered it yet?
Fucking hell.

[Politicub]

8. You can still book a flight to Madrid from New York

I just checked (and it's cheap, too, which isn't a surprise). I mean really cheap -- like $250 r/t.

It's ridiculous that we're still flying people from one population to another while the virus is on the rise.

[CTyankee]

9. uh oh, I was hoping to travel to Madrid and Barcelona in late October with my daughter.

That's not gonna happen this year...