⁍ Madrid region is the hardest-hit in Spain by a second wave of coronavirus.

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⁍ It has restricted movement between and within some districts that are home to about 850,000 people.

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⁍ Officials said restrictions could be widened after a review this week and have not ruled out tougher measures.

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– Spain is once again asking the military to help contain the spread of a new virus that has killed more than 30,000 people in the country. Madrid officials say they need help hiring hundreds of foreign doctors, as well as more police to enforce quarantines and fines in areas under partial lockdown, Reuters reports. The region is the hardest-hit in Spain by the second wave of coronavirus, which has restricted movement between and within some districts that are home to about 850,000 people. Officials say restrictions could be widened after a review this week and have not ruled out tougher measures. Madrid accounts for about a third of coronavirus cases in Spain and has the highest share of hospital capacity occupied by COVID-19 patients. Spain’s cumulative number of confirmed coronavirus infections has spiked since the end of a nationwide lockdown in late June and stands at 682,267—the highest in Western Europe. More than 30,900 people have died of COVID-19. “The battle against the virus is not in confining, it is in primary healthcare, where we can test for the positive and negative so we can confine the people who are truly infected,” said retiree Nieves Marcos from the Usera area, one of those under partial lockdown. Residents in the mostly lower-income neighborhoods where infection rates are highest say the measures are inefficient and unfair. “The battle against the virus is not in confining, it is in primary healthcare, where we can test for the positive and negative so we can confine the people who are truly infected,” said another resident.