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Day 135 NOW NO SPANISH LOCKDOWN The Government rules out applying an immediate home confinement throughout Spain. Escrivá prioritizes evaluating the various restriction measures decided by each community.

NOW NO SPANISH LOCKDOWN The Government rules out applying an immediate home confinement throughout Spain. Escrivá prioritizes evaluating the various restriction measures decided by each community. The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, José Luis Escrivá, has assured that he is "not aware" of an imminent home closure in Spain. "I am not sure. This pandemic must be monitored continuously, it must be evaluated very well," said the minister in an interview on Antena 3's 'Espejo Público', where he defended that the different restriction measures imposed by the Government to stop Covid-19. At this point, Escrivá stressed that "for now I would be cautious." "I would focus on evaluating the effect of the different measures and their effectiveness," he specified. Likewise, he stressed that during the second wave in Spain, "despite the fact that there is a growing level of infections", the indicator of the positivity of the tests "is stabilized at 14 percent." On the other hand, the minister has affirmed that the unemployment data that will be known on Wednesday "is going to be quite good" and that the third quarter "is one of solid recovery" in Spain. In this sense, he has clarified that education and hospitality "are the sectors that are below a normal October." "There are so many sectors that are doing better than a normal October, but we hear a lot from people who are doing badly, but there is a process of activities that follow the recovery process," he concluded.

WE ARE NOT STRESSED (LOL) Puig on the coronavirus pandemic: "We are not in a time of stress, but we must prepare" The president of the Generalitat has warned that "depending on the future" new measures will be taken. The president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, stated that in the Valencian Community the increase in hospitalizations and admissions to the ICU is "a reality", although he pointed out: "We are not in a time of stress, but we have to prepare for any citizen who is affected has the best possible response ". This has been indicated by Puig in attention to the media in l'Alcúdia when asked about the situation of the pandemic in the Valencian Community, where he has indicated that the Consell is "evaluating the measures that were taken last week" and has warned that "in depending on the future and how the different parameters advance "new measures will be taken.The head of the Consell has highlighted that he has held a meeting with the Minister of Health, Ana Barceló, this Monday, and has stressed that they will continue "working" throughout the week. He has also remarked that the public health services are "working intensely" to "tackle all the sources as quickly as possible." Along these lines, he stressed that "response capacity is being improved, taking into account the limitations that exist and that have to do with the very way this virus works, which in some areas is unknown." For Puig, "each one is jointly responsible" and has emphasized that "the vast majority of people are making an extraordinary effort" following the health guidelines. He has insisted that it is a "rising moment" for the virus, so "every effort to comply with the rules is essential."

TOMORROWS WEATHER REPORT The weather in Alicante: a cold air pocket from Levante will leave widespread rains throughout the province as of Wednesday. Meteorology warns that the storm will be intense in the Marina Alta where up to 60 liters / m2 can be collected in 12 hours The State Meteorological Agency warns that as of this Wednesday a change in the meteorological situation is expected, since a storm will form in the south of the peninsula starting tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday, which will move west on Wednesday, situated first in the Gulf of Cádiz and then between the peninsula and the Canary Islands. This situation, together with the position of a powerful anticyclone to the north of the peninsula, will favor the entry of a very humid and unstable air mass with an eastern component of Mediterranean origin, which will produce abundant rainfall throughout the province, but with greater intensity in the Marina Alta, a region where up to 60 liters per square meter can be collected in 12 hours. On Wednesday, cloudy or overcast skies are expected with occasional stormy precipitation, locally strong and / or persistent from the afternoon, which will be more dispersed and less intense towards the extreme north and south. There is a warning activated from zero hours due to rainfall that can accumulate 60 l / m2 in 12 hours in the province of Valencia, south of Castellón and north coast of Alicante. On Thursday 5, the probability that rainfall will continue to be locally strong or persistent in the Valencian Community remains. In addition, with an easterly wind, a maritime storm is expected from Wednesday afternoon, with intervals of force 7 from the east and northeast and waves of 3 meters. There is a yellow warning activated by a maritime storm from Wednesday afternoon on the coasts of Valencia, Alicante and south of Castellón.

REAL ESTATE DISASTER The second wave of the covid blocks the sale of tourist homes. The promoters note the stoppage of sales in key markets such as France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. The informal closure of borders in many European countries with the generalized confinement of the population threatened by the advance of the covid once again blocks residential tourism. In recent weeks, sales have stopped with Great Britain, the hardest hit market but with 70,000 residents in the province, the Netherlands, France, Germany and Belgium. States that are joined by the "non-Schengen" such as Russia and Ukraine, "whose citizens are not afraid of the covid and are willing to travel to the Costa Blanca," said Pablo Serna, member of Provia, and CEO of the real estate group yesterday TM, specialized in the construction and sale of second homes, and for which the foreign client is key. In the Marinas Alta and Baixa and in the Vega Baja, the number of visas requested between January and September accounted for 60% of the entire province, and it is in these regions where the bulk of residential tourist construction takes place. Pablo Serna already warns of a “sharp slowdown due to the lack of arrival of tourists and investors. Even with a significant decrease in flights and passengers in July and August, they were good months, but with the increase in covid cases in Spain, quarantines, the start of restrictions in Belgium, September was already bad and October much worse. Projects have stopped starting, and many structural works are going to remain in the skeleton. Very tough months are expected, if a certain normality in mobility is not restored. We just wait and ask for that. We will deal with the economy, "underlines Pablo Serna, regarding the need for the sector to open air corridors with Europe. “We have quite a few clients to whom we have been able to deliver houses, and many have told us that they are not going to come back as happened with the first wave. They prefer to spend a possible confinement in the province than in their countries of origin with a foot of snow, but things are starting to be bad, there is a lot of concern about the future, "said Pablo Serna. Warning that gains strength after observing how the last flight that took off yesterday from the airport to Eindhoven (Netherlands) did so at 8:00 p.m. From that time on, not a planned takeoff until 7 am on Tuesday morning. The last flight arrived from Brussels after 11pm.

MAKE SURE YOU DON’T MISS 2021 SPANISH FIESTAS The BOE publishes the 2021 work calendar, with eight common holidays in Spain. The total of national holidays is 11, but the communities can displace three of them. The 2021 work calendar includes a total of 11 national holidays, two less than in 2020, of which only eight will be celebrated jointly throughout Spain, the same number as this year, according to the resolution of the General Directorate of Labor published this Monday in the Official State Gazette (BOE). Specifically, the eight national holidays that will be a holiday throughout Spain are: Friday, January 1 (New Year), Friday, April 2 (Good Friday), Saturday, May 1 (Labor Festival), and Tuesday, April 12. October (National Holiday of Spain), Monday November 1 (All Saints), Monday December 6 (Spanish Constitution Day), Wednesday December 8 (Immaculate Conception) and Saturday December 25 (Nativity of the Mr). On three other common holidays, Wednesday January 6 (Epiphany of the Lord), Thursday April 1 (Holy Thursday) and Monday August 16 (Monday following the Assumption of the Virgin), the autonomous communities can move the celebration . In the case of Three Kings Day, January 6, all the autonomous communities have kept it on the same Wednesday. For its part, Thursday April 1 will be a holiday in all communities except Catalonia and the Valencian Community. Similarly, Monday August 16 will be a holiday in Andalusia, Aragón, Asturias, the Canary Islands and Castilla y León. The rest of the communities have chosen to move the holiday that falls on Sunday to other days of the year. Friday, March 19 (San José) will only be a party in the Valencian Community, Extremadura, the Community of Madrid, Murcia, Galicia, Navarra and the Basque Country. To the national holidays, we must add the regional and local holidays.

LITTLE WEED The Local Police of Pilar de la Horadada discover 5,012 marijuana plants and sacks with buds in two greenhouses. An intense smell made the two agents who approached the facility along the CV-925 highway suspicious / At least four people who were inside the farm and fled. The Local Police of Pilar de la Horadada has found five thousand cannabis plants and several bags of buds ready for commercialization in two old agricultural greenhouses adapted to this illegal cultivation in the northwest of the municipality. The discovery of this plantation on almost a thousand square meters has intervened chance, but also the intuition and good sense of smell - in every sense - of the agents. Yesterday Saturday, the usual patrol that runs through the Pinar de Campoverde urbanization had been detecting a strong characteristic smell of marijuana that was emitted by an old greenhouse agricultural facility next to the CV-925 -between the Lo Romero golf course and the first roundabout. from Pinar de Campoverde. The local police patrol stopped the vehicle to inspect the area and noticed movement inside the greenhouse - the Civil Guard, which has a barracks located about ten kilometres away, did not have patrols at that time. When they approached the access, they heard the warning shout of "Police !!" and at least four people fled from the farm, whom they could not reach - they had an emergency exit route prepared. Inside they found a huge quantity of cannabis plants - specifically 5,012 and two bags with more than two kilos of buds prepared for sale. This Sunday the Local Police has returned to continue the information procedures open on this plantation and to secure the area and has found two other large bags full of buds with a weight to be determined. The people in charge of the cultivation lived next to the greenhouse - the Local Police surprised them when they were eating. Surprisingly, this greenhouse is located next to a very accessible road - which connects the urban area of Pilar de la Horadada with one of its most populated urbanizations - and very visible, although with the advantage of going unnoticed among the hundreds of terraces under plastic with which this area of the west of the municipality of Pilareño.

FANTASTIC NEWS Mercadona will buy 200,000 tons of national oranges and mandarins. The supermarket chain is supplied by suppliers from the Valencian Community, Andalusia, Murcia, Catalonia and the Canary Islands. The Mercadona supermarket chain plans to buy more than 200,000 tons of national oranges and mandarins this year, as reported by the company on Monday. The largest volume is of oranges, which are estimated to reach 160,000 tons and which the chain sells, both in bulk, and in meshes of 3 to 5 kilos; while the volume of mandarins will be more than 45,000 tons, also available, equally, in bulk and in mesh. The firm acquires these fruit from producers in the Valencian Community, Andalusia, Region of Murcia, Catalonia and the Canary Islands. Specifically, Mercadona has agreements with the suppliers Fontestad Citrus, Frutinter, Martinavarro, Frutas Tono, Bollo International Fruits, Bagu, Dracma, Anecoop and SAT Canarisol. In total, the company has more than 350 suppliers of fruits and vegetables with whom the company collaborates. The mandarins are already available and the oranges, which are already sold in the stores served by the logistics blocks of Ribarroja (Valencia), San Isidro (Alicante) and Huévar (Seville), will gradually enter this week in the rest of chain. Mercadona supports the initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food "Seasonal Fruits and Vegetables". Likewise, the chain defends fair commercial practices and for years has adhered to the Code of Good Commercial Practices in Food Contracting.

BANKS LAYING OFF MORE STAFF Sabadell raises 1,800 voluntary dismissals to the unions. The entity wants to eliminate 500 jobs in its corporate centers, 850 administrative positions in its network and 450 commercial The management of Banco Sabadell has proposed this morning to the unions a staff cut of 1,800 people, which the entity intends to execute through voluntary departures and without the need to resort to the figure of the ERE, as confirmed by sources UGT, CC OO and Sicam. The bank's representatives have not specified the exact offer that they will propose to workers to take advantage of the plan, but their intention is to offer early retirement to those over 63 years of age and agree on a quota of early retirement and incentivized leave. Regarding the distribution of these adjustments, the entity wants to eliminate around 500 jobs at its corporate centers -which represents 10% of the personnel who now work in these facilities, which the entity has distributed between Sant Cugat, Barcelona, Madrid, Oviedo and Alicante-; another 850 among the administrative staff of the branch network and other support services (15% of the workforce that performs these tasks), and 450 sales representatives (7%). Those responsible for Sabadell have not provided the geographical distribution of these casualties, although according to union sources Alicante would be among the areas with the highest proportion of personnel of pre-retirement age, along with the northern regions and Catalonia.

80 PENSIONERS WITH COVID Outbreak of 80 positives in a nursing home in Elda. La Molineta de Petrer nursing home suffers thirty new infections of coronavirus among residents and professionals. Elda's Domus Vi nursing home suffers an outbreak of 80 positives for coronavirus. There are more than 40 users and around 35 professionals. But the number may rise as the results of the latest PCR tests become known. A new outbreak has also been registered in the La Molineta de Petrer nursing home. It affects around thirty users and professionals of the Alzheimer's module. At the moment the patients are stable. Many of them are asymptomatic or have only fever. Public Health is monitoring both outbreaks under the control of Primary Care.

RECAP 86% of Covid “cases” are not contagious. Yesterdays Geezer who mentioned lockdown failed to tell the dole office. Dole office says its stabilizing! Don’t Stress but prepare? PREPARE for what? Its gonna rain for a few days! I don’t think the rain will be bad in our area of Torrevieja (Famous last words) Big waves no more illegals sneaking in! I think the rain wont be that bad around Torrevieja! Real Estate agents hit hard! No house sales! Not unexpected! Spanish are confident for the future so plan all their next years Fiesta Days! What we all need right now , a little weed for the stress , to be prepared! Finally Mercadona buys Spanish oranges instead of Moroccan oranges! Makes sense! If we have no cash cash why do we need bank banks? I wonder how many of the 80 had the flu jab? Those people awake know the answer , those who don’t know, I am going to give up giving you clues!