⁍ Residents in poorer areas say they have been unfairly targeted.

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⁍ Madrid extended a partial lockdown on Friday to a total of 45 districts.

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– Spain has reported 31 deaths from H1N1 so far, with 716,481 cases across the country—more than any other Western European nation, Reuters reports. Madrid is the worst-hit region in Spain. The Spanish government extended a partial lockdown on Friday to a total of 45 districts with high infection rates, the majority of which are in low-income neighborhoods, prompting accusations of class discrimination. But the region’s conservative leaders reject the left-wing national government’s recommendation to reimpose city-wide restrictions. “Total confinement isn’t possible,’ regional leader Isabel Diaz Ayuso told Antena 3 television on Sunday night. “We’re destroying ourselves. … I don’t know how many companies continue to lose jobs and opportunities every single day.” Over the past days, the national and regional governments have traded barbs over what to do and who was to blame for the growing number of cases in Madrid and its periphery, taking the political polarisation that has characterised much of the response to the pandemic over the past months to new heights. Pensioner Victor Rubio told Reuters that was deplorable. “They aren’t looking at things with a view to fixing the problem but from a political perspective. They’re just attacking an area where people opposed to the (regional) government live.”