The Minister of Culture and Sports, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, announced in the press conference after the meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System, together with the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, the implementation of a protocol for the celebration with the presence of the public of the Professional Soccer League matches in the context of COVID-19. The next step will be the return of the public to the basketball halls, whose protocol is being worked on to offer a safe return for the ACB League ‘play-offs’.
The protocol establishes a series of guidelines that guarantee the maximum safety conditions, in line with the criteria of progressiveness and follow-up of preventive measures that require the reactivation of mass events in these circumstances. Rodríguez Uribes stressed that this decision “combines the will that in these two remaining days there will be an audience in the football stadiums, with the sanitary criterion, which is fundamental.”
As a framework to establish these guidelines, both the document ‘Coordinated response actions to control the transmission of COVID-19’, updated in March 2021; and the one on ‘Recommendations for mass events and activities in the context of the new normality due to COVID-19 in Spain’, prepared in June 2020.
Among the guidelines that will be applied, according to the attached protocol, a capacity of 30% with a maximum of 5,000 people is established, the sectorization of the enclosure and the obligation to take temperature at the entrance, the use of a FFP2 mask without valve, the separation of 1.5 meters in all directions, as well as the prohibition of the consumption of food, drinks, and smoking.
The Security Forces and Bodies will control the surroundings of the stadium to avoid crowds before and after the game.