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Day 132 HOSPITALS ONLY FOR COVID The Health department plans to dedicate hospitals exclusively to covid in fourteen days’ time. Hospital pressure intensifies in the province, with an increase in admissions for coronavirus of 214% in a month

UMH researchers expect that in two weeks coronavirus infections will increase by 77.5%. Hospital admissions due to covid have increased by 214% in just one month in the province of Alicante and the trend is that in the next two weeks the situation will continue to worsen due to the daily and sustained increase in infections. Against this background, hospitals are preparing to deploy their plans in two weeks to adapt their resources and face this new peak of the pandemic, transforming themselves into covid hospitals. These plans include suspending non-urgent operations to free beds and setting up ICU beds in other areas of the hospital, especially in the Anaesthesiology areas. Also, if the situation becomes extremely complicated, refer patients to other health centres with less pressure. Some hospitals have already had to resort to these measures, such as the General Hospital of Elche, Orihuela or Elda, which have suspended operations and in the case of Vega Baja patients have also been referred, yesterday one to the Sant Joan Hospital. In the General Hospital of Alicante an area that was not used to admit seriously ill patients has been opened. And it is that the coronavirus contagion curve will continue to rise in the next two weeks in the province of Alicante, according to the predictions made by researchers at the Miguel Hernández University Operational Research Centre through Ciovid.es, the first tool for monitoring the evolution of the coronavirus municipality by municipality. According to these predictions, in the next fifteen days, if the trend remains the same as in the last fortnight, coronavirus infections will rise in the province by 77.59%. All even though the Generalitat has decreed in the last hours a perimeter closure of the Community and new restrictive measures for 25 municipalities in the province. "It is not expected that the effects of these measures will begin to be noticed until two weeks after their application,"

EVEN MORE ILLEGALS Three boats with 36 people arrive in the province of Alicante in less than 24 hours. The vessels have been intercepted in Benidorm, l'Alfàs del Pi and Pilar de la Horadada. The CEP union asks for a protocol to test the police officers who guard immigrants for Covid. Three boats with 36 people on board have been intercepted on the coasts of the province of Alicante during the last 24 hours, as confirmed to this newspaper by Red Cross sources. The last of them arrived this morning at l'Albir de l'Alfàs del Pi beach around seven with twelve crew members, although this figure could change since the Civil Guard is looking for more people from this boat. The second arrived yesterday at the stroke of midnight off the coast of Pilar de la Horadada. On board were 16 people, who were in good health. Of them, a man and a woman had to be transferred to a hospital centre due to symptoms of hypoglycemia. The medical examination has lasted until five in the morning in a tent set up for the care of immigrants in the Port of Alicante. The third boat arrived at eleven o'clock yesterday morning at Cala del Tío Ximo in Benidorm. A total of twelve people was traveling on board. On the other hand, the Spanish Police Confederation (CEP) has demanded from the Government Sub-delegation a protocol so that all national police officers who are part of operations of reception, custody and treatment of boats that test positive for covid are carried out preventive testing of the virus without having to present symptoms. In a brief submitted to the Government Subdelegation, the CEP Secretary General José Manuel Martínez states that some of the immigrants arriving in boats are infected and the test is carried out as soon as they step on Spanish territory immediately and free of charge. "A logical and appropriate thing to prevent more infections. What we do not understand is why these same tests are not carried out on the police officers who are in contact with these people for long hours and days," he says. Martínez adds that this situation continues over time because more boats continue to arrive and "it is common sense to protect those who protect."

VALENCIA CAN I CROSS BORDER? Can I travel between the provinces of the Valencian Community? The Community will be closed to the entry and exit of citizens for the next seven days The president of the Consell, Ximo Puig, has announced the perimeter closure of the Valencian Community to try to stop the coronavirus. Since the announcement, many citizens are wondering about internal mobility. Can the residents of the Valencian Community move between provinces? It is one of the questions that may arise after the head of the Consell announced this afternoon the perimeter closure of the Valencian Community as a measure to stop the expansion of the covid. As of yesterday, with the implementation of this new rule, residents of the Community will not be able to travel outside of it, except for duly justified reasons, but they will be able to move between the provinces of the autonomy. Those who wish can travel through Castelló, Valencia or Alicante without problem, they can move to another municipality even if it is located in a province of the Valencian Community different from the one in which they reside.

ALICANTE AIRPORT The new state of alarm plunges daily traffic at the airport to 1973 levels. The companies cut their programming to 38 daily flights - The aerodrome does not expect to recover the 2019 figures until 2023. The declaration of the new state of alarm, and the imposition of the night curfew, have had a devastating effect on the Alicante-Elche airport, which has seen how this week the companies that continue to operate in the terminal have cut 70% the programming -data from Euroestats-, as evidenced by the fact that only about 38 daily flights are planned, counting entries and exits, figures from 1973, before the tourist "boom" that would launch the province. The lack of control of the pandemic in Spain and the volatility of the decisions of the Government and the Consell itself hit tourism again at the beginning of the low season in which, paradoxically, Benidorm is among the Spanish municipalities with the best figures of infections per hundred one thousand inhabitants by not exceeding 70 cases, like the Canary Islands, with which I know if they have opened air corridors. The airport has run out of links with Switzerland, Ryanair has cut its programming by 60% and Easyjet flights are practically testimonial, apart from having decided that it will not fly if the plane's occupancy does not exceed 50% of the plane. The airport will close 2020 with some four million passengers, the same as in 1996, and thanks to the fact that until March 15, when everything was blown up, the Costa Blanca was preparing for a great season.

HEADLINE NEWS IN SPAIN Arrested a possible accomplice of the Nice attack. Police suspect the man, 47, may have been in contact with the terrorist. The French police have arrested a man for his possible complicity with the author of the Islamist attack yesterday in Nice, in which three people were killed with a knife in a church in the city, it was reported this Friday. "A 47-year-old man was arrested last night. He is suspected of having been in contact with the attacker" a judicial source confirmed. The terrorist, shot down by police officers as he was about to attack them, was hospitalized in serious condition. He is a 21-year-old man of Tunisian nationality who illegally arrived by boat on the Italian island of Lampedusa on September 20 following the migration route from the central Mediterranean. According to a document from the Italian Red Cross that he carried, and which the French authorities consider authentic, he disembarked on October 9 in the port of Bari (southern Italy). The investigation is now focused on finding out how he arrived in France from Bari and his "possible complicities", said the national anti-terrorist prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard, during a statement to the press last night. The terrorist entered and within half an hour murdered his three victims with a large knife: a 60-year-old parishioner who was almost beheaded, the 55-year-old sexton of the temple, and a 44-year-old woman. The latter was Brazilian, according to the Foreign Ministry of that country, and was able to leave the temple seriously injured to request help and raise the alarm, before dying from "multiple stab wounds," explained the prosecutor. This is the third Islamist terrorist attack with a knife in France, after on September 25 a Pakistani seriously wounded two people near the former headquarters of Charlie Hebdo and on October 16 a Russian-Chechen beheaded a professor who showed cartoons of Muhammad in class.

CONFUSED SPANISH DINERS Eating Dinners at European hours. The curfew imposes to advance the night services in the restaurants and ends the late session in the cinemas. Javier Jordá runs a restaurant in the center of Benidorm. Until a few weeks ago, it was rare the day when someone came to his bar for dinner before half past nine or ten at night; especially on Fridays and Saturdays. The application of the curfew to stop the contagion of covid-19 that forces us all to be at home before midnight has forced this young businessman to redo the hours of his establishment and advance the opening to the public at eight o'clock the afternoon. Everything indicates that it will not be the only change: “We are thinking of opening even earlier, at seven or seven thirty. And, in addition, we have extended the days that we open at noon because more and more people prefer to come to eat and thus not have to rush ", he explains. Andrés and Sofía loved to go out for a quick snack on Friday nights and, later, go to a movie theatre to see the last premiere of the week, taking advantage of the fact that neither of them gets up early on Saturday. "The ten thirty or eleven o'clock session is the one we like the most because there are usually few people, and nobody bothers you to enjoy the movie." From now on, if they want to maintain this routine, they will have to choose between snacking or movies. And, above all, if they choose cinema, they will have to get used to going earlier, much earlier, because the time at which until now they were put in front of the screen is when most cinemas close. Entrepreneurs in sectors such as hospitality and culture have had to adapt their schedules and routines to the new restrictions implemented in the Community due to the increase in coronavirus infections registered in recent weeks. And it is that the capacity restrictions and night mobility have not only made us all the closest thing to the beautiful Cinderella, but it will also force us to reorganize our lives and advance schedules to get closer, more and more, to the routines of our neighbours in Europe. The main hospitality associations in the province have joined the campaign "Advance your dinner at 8:00 pm" to encourage their customers to go to bars and restaurants sooner so as not to see their dinners hampered by the curfew. "We are insisting a lot on that, because at 11:30 at the latest people have to be leaving the restaurant to give them time to get home", explains Alexandre from the Association of Bars and Restaurants of Benidorm and Region The hoteliers, many of whom have also decided not to take reservations later than nine at night, are expectant: they do not know how the public is going to react for this weekend, the first in which they will have to close before midnight, although they expect customers to respond to their call. "We believe that most of them will abide by the new rules, a very strong campaign has been carried out on social networks and people know very well that they have to be home at twelve," maintains this businessman, who acknowledges that they have also detected that Many customers have more and more respect to go out for a drink, and more at night, for fear of contagion. For his part, Javier Jordá adds: "If after dinner people want to have a little after-dinner or stay for a drink, they have no choice but to start dinner sooner than ever." Almost like a high tea!

SPY DRONES Drones in the centre of Elche and the cemeteries to avoid crowds on the Puente de Todos los Santos. There will be more than 560 agents until Monday controlling the possible clandestine parties that are celebrated for Halloween and that there are no collapses in traffic to access the cemetery. Elche will put drones in the centre and in cemeteries to control the crowds during this All Saints Bridge and the Halloween celebration marked by the pandemic. Although there will be no events organized by the City Council to comply with the restrictions imposed by Health, which are now accentuated with the perimeter closure of the Valencian Community, the government team has arranged a special police operation with more than 560 agents to Keep an eye on the situation as more activity is expected than on any other weekend. It is also feared that clandestine parties with more than six people will be called in premises or in private homes, especially in rural areas, so there will also be a reinforcement in the outskirts of the city and the districts, as confirmed today by Ramón Abad, mayor Citizen Security. For this reason, the Air Media Unit will use two drones in hot spots where there may be more traffic, which in this case would be the downtown area and the holy fields. In the same way, in the centre the Police will put an advanced command post with the mercury truck from where they will control in a faster way that the rules are met. There will be health care from DYA and traffic will be regulated around the cemeteries to control movement flows. There will also be a special signalling of the entrances and Civil Protection volunteers will put order.

SELF EMPLOYED KILLED BY SANCHEZ One million freelancers ruined by Sánchez's criminal management. Germany now implements measures that VOX proposed in March and Sánchez ignored. Many self-employed Spanish people are being affected by the restrictions imposed by the Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias governments, and are on the verge of disappearing. Almost two million freelancers have lost at least 60% of their turnover. The second wave of the coronavirus and the measures and confinements that the Government is imposing put their businesses in jeopardy. The president of ATA (Association of Self-Employed Workers) stressed: “We not only need income support, but consumption and direct aid to families must be encouraged, because through this consumption VAT is generated, the wheel of weaving Productive moves and the state enters money via taxes ”. According to a survey carried out by ATA, in October 300,000 Spaniards have been forced to close their businesses, 300,000 expect to close before the end of 2020 and 400,000 think they will not be able to continue with their activity. This situation, which affects thousands of Spaniards, will not stop until the Executive has an urgent plan for economic measures. Regarding employment, according to a survey carried out by the association, almost half of the self-employed who have employees have requested ERTE or are planning to request it, 70% of those surveyed believe that it is necessary to maintain the ERTEs and 1 in 3 with workers are sees the need to fire them, although more than 40% cannot do so due to lack of liquidity. Pedro Sánchez's decision to extend the state of alarm was also criticized by this association, which describes it as a measure typical of a dictatorship. The president assured that, if the state of alarm extends until May 9, including Christmas and Easter, they will have to extend the ERTE and aid for the cessation of activity. VOX, led by Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, deputy spokesperson in Congress, presented a program called Protect Spain, in which it proposed a series of measures to safeguard the health and economy of all Spaniards. Some of the measures include the suspension of the tax obligations of companies (VAT, Personal Income Tax and Corporation Tax) and in the case of the self-employed, the suppression of the accrual of social security contributions during the term of confinement. In addition, Espinosa de los Monteros stated that the main objective should be the protection of the productive fabric to avoid the closure, both of small and medium-sized companies and the self-employed. The Sánchez government, on the contrary, preferred to continue with its negligent policies that have led us to this situation

COVID CHAOS The pandemic hits the Medio Vinalopó and Vega Baja. Health detects 1,631 new cases of coronavirus in the province in the last three days. The regions of Medio Vinalopó and part of Vega Baja are at the center of the hurricane in this second wave of the pandemic. According to data published this Friday by the Ministry of Health, cases of coronavirus have increased notably in this part of the province in the last three days. The accumulated incidence in Elda has worsened again, reaching 769 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. In Petrer it also rises and stands at 589 cases. Pinoso's situation improves slightly compared to the data provided on Tuesday, although it accumulates an incidence of 640 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. To the south of the province, in the Vega Baja, are the municipalities of Benferri, with an incidence of 926 and Jacarilla, with 741, which offer the worst records. Also Bigasto and Rafal surpass 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and very close to Callosa de Segura, with a contagion rate of 493. In the last three days, 1,631 new cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed in the province of Alicante. Of the ten towns with the most new infections in the Valencian Community, six belong to the province of Alicante. Elche, with 266 new cases in three days, is the second locality in the ranking, only surpassed by the city of Valencia. It is followed by Alicante, with 194 cases, Orihuela with 158 and Elda, with 142. Petrer, with 80 infections, is the seventh town in the Community with the most new positives and Callosa de Segura the ninth, with 58 new infections since Tuesday.

RECAP I tell you a true story, two healthy active old dears from Torrevieja got offered free covid test in Torrevieja. They took the test, its positive, they are locked up and added to the infected list! Neither have been in contact with the outside world for months on end! Neither are sick! Now they are locked up! For Christ’s sake, don’t get sick or have an accident now the Hospitals are closed to everything except covid! More looky looky men arrive, as close as Pilar Horadada! They test positive so will get a hospital bed adding to the numbers! The borders of Alicante to other provinces are closed, there’s police on the borders checking why you are going through! Obviously, they have nothing better to do!” Looky looky men rampage in France cutting heads off Christians, but its ok, the EU still allow more to arrive! Late eating Spaniards in total confusion of what time to eat as do not want to be rushed out of the restaurant to get home before midnight! Big brother is watching you, drones in the sky are to catch groups of more that 6, you have been warned. Sanchez murders many self-employed people! Covid numbers, what ever numbers I put up I always get one Colin Prick saying they are not right! Mr Prick they change by the hours so obviously they change! Derrrrr!