The Legal Impacts of COVID-19 in the Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Industry

10 transporters, even if they are not being housed there. Likewise, the provision of all services must be carried out, observing all the protection measures and instructions indicated by the Ministry of Health. Lastly, it should be noted that these measures apply from the time the rule came into force (25 March) until the end of the alarm period or until there are circumstances that justify a new order modifying the terms of the one previously mentioned. 3.3. Enabling accommodation for sanitary use Among other measures, Order SND/232/2020, of 15 March, which adopts measures in the field of human resources and means for managing the health crisis situation caused by COVID-19 (BOE no. 68), provides for the hiring of students in the last year of Medicine and Nursing. In its section 9, it also includes the provision of public or private spaces that meet the necessary conditions to provide health care, either in consultation or hospitalisation, referring for authorisation to the competent health authorities of each autonomous community. A few days later, the Ministry of Health issued the Instruction of 23 March 2020, which established the interpretative criteria for managing the health crisis situation caused by COVID- 19 (BOE no. 81). This instruction made clear that, independently of the authority of the Minister of Health over the rest of the health authorities, the autonomous communities and local entities would maintain the management, within their sphere of competence, of the corresponding health services, ensuring at all times their adequate functioning. The Ministry of Health also considered that the suspension provided for in Order SND/257/2020 in no case prevented the health authorities of the autonomous communities, pursuant to the provisions of section 9 of Order SND/232/2020, from enabling spaces for sanitary use in the premises included in the scope of the first, including the Paradores de Turismo de España, that met the necessary conditions to provide health care, either in consultation or hospitalisation. This has allowed these premises, located near the hospital centres, to be used for sanitary use. The response of the autonomous communities was reasonably fast. The Community of Madrid through Order 381/2020, of 3 April, which enables certain spaces of hotel establishments in the Community of Madrid for residential use by the elderly (BOCM 4 no. 85), authorises the 4 Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid).