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Day 139 Spanish News. Bars and restaurants stay open. The hotel business does not close in the Valencian Community. The Generalitat is considering increasing the reduction of capacity in terraces and interiors from this weekend but rules out the closure. The hotel business will remain open in the province.

Bars and restaurants stay open. The hotel business does not close in the Valencian Community. The Generalitat is considering increasing the reduction of capacity in terraces and interiors from this weekend but rules out the closure. The hotel business will remain open in the province. The president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, is currently finalizing with his team and the technicians of the Ministry of Health the new measures to be adopted in the Valencian Community to face the necessary control of the covid. New restrictive actions will be adopted regarding the reduction of capacity in bars, restaurants and cafeterias - consumption at the bar is already prohibited - but, in principle, the sector, the one most affected by the health and economic crisis, will remain open. A decision that has a lot to do with the personal position of President Puig, aware of the strategic importance of the service sector in the Community in general and in the province. By representing 25% of GDP. On the other hand, what does seem to be consummating is the perimeter closure of Alicante municipalities where the incidence of the virus (cases, outbreaks and infections) is higher, as Puig advanced earlier in the week. Locations where entry and exit will be restricted except for force majeure, including work and studies. The Valencian Community is the peninsular autonomy that, for the moment, has the best ratios in terms of covid infections per hundred thousand inhabitants. The Generalitat already hardened mobility last week in 25 municipalities in the province of Alicante; Among them, Elche, Elda, Crevillent, Ibi, Pinoso, Muro de Alcoi, Petrer and 18 of the 27 of the Vega Baja, specifically, all those corresponding to the Orihuela health area: Albatera, Algorfa, Almoradí, Benejúzar, Benferri , Bigastro, Callosa de Segura, Catral, Cox, Daya Nueva, Daya Vieja, Dolores, Granja de Rocamora, Jacarilla, Orihuela, Rafal, Redován and San Isidro due to the coronavirus and until November 13 the perimeter closure of the entire Community continues.

The latest rules start midnight tonight. The Consell reduces the capacity in bars and restaurants throughout the Valencian Community but does not close the hotel business. Customers will only be able to occupy a third of the interior and half of the terrace - Shopping centers will limit the capacity to 50% inside the stores. The bars and restaurants of the Valencian Community may not exceed a third of their capacity indoors and on the terraces no more than 50% of the tables may be occupied. This is stated in a resolution published in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat Valenciana this Friday. Likewise, in shopping centers the capacity in each of its stores is limited to 50% and customers may not be in common areas 

Additional measures of tobacco and similar consumption. You will not be able to smoke on public roads, terraces, beaches or others outdoor spaces, when the minimum distance cannot be respected interpersonal of at least two meters. This limitation will also apply to the use of any other tobacco inhalation device, water pipes, hookahs. or assimilated including electronic cigarettes or vaping.. 1.8. Measures relating to the hotel and restaurant establishments 1.8.1. The activity of the premises of discos, rooms dance, karaoke and cocktail bars with and without musical performances in direct. And karaoke and performances are also suspended sporadic or amateur singing in catering establishments and hospitality. 1.8.2. Consumption inside the premises may not exceed 1/3 of the capacity. And consumption on the terraces may not exceed 50% of the capacity. 1.8.3. Self-service or buffet services are not allowed. 1.8.4. Collective or group consumption of beverages will not be allowed on the street or in public spaces outside the hospitality or similar establishments

Wakes, burials and celebrations The resolution also contemplates restrictive measures for wakes and burials, which may not exceed 25 people outdoors and 15 indoors. Non-religious ceremonies may not exceed 25 people outdoors or 15 indoors and subsequent celebrations in restaurants will also have those same limitations.

Commerce and markets The retail trade will reduce its capacity to 50%. Similarly, markets will be able to install half of their stalls.

Hotels and cultural activities Similarly, the common areas of hotels and tourist accommodation may not exceed a third of their capacity and people who are not living together may not stay overnight or use collective services simultaneously. For their part, cultural and tourist activities reduce their capacity by half, traveling shows are not allowed, telematic congresses and workshops are recommended and if they are held it will be with half capacity.

Telematics teaching Non-regulated telematics teaching is recommended, especially that aimed at vulnerable people, and if it is taught in person, do not exceed 50% of the maximum capacity of the facility.

Sport Physical activity or sport, both in sports facilities and outdoors, can be practiced without physical contact in individual sports modalities and practiced in pairs. Likewise, physical activities can be carried out in groups up to a maximum of 30 people, when They are carried out in open facilities, and up to a maximum of 20 people, when they are carried out in closed facilities, without physical contact, maintaining the safety distance and provided that a third of the maximum capacity is not exceeded.

Public transport In public passenger transport in vehicles with up to nine seats, including the driver, it is allowed to occupy all the rear seats of the vehicle, as well as those offered in the row of driver's seats, when the seats have previously been exhausted. rear, except when the driver can be considered as a person at risk, all occupants always wearing a mask, and in those with a single row a maximum of two people may travel.

New restrictions The measures, among which there is also the perimeter closure of Elda and Petrer, will take effect at 00 hours on November 7, that is, at dawn from Friday to Saturday, and will last until December 9.

 

Orihuela stays open. The downside of being the regional capital. Health rejects the closure requested by Orihuela for being the nerve centre of the Vega Baja. Being the capital of a more populated region than some Spanish provinces has its advantages, but also its drawbacks, especially in times of pandemic, when concentrating most of the services and leisure that the surrounding towns do not have becomes a handicap. This is what happens to Orihuela, the historic capital of the Vega Baja. Its many terraces and well-known bars, where you can have the best tapas in the area, become daily and, mainly at the weekend, a meeting place not only for locals, but also for residents of other municipalities in the region such as Callosa, Redován , Almoradí, Bigastro or Benferri, just to name a few. Also, its markets on Tuesdays and Saturdays traditionally attract many buyers from outside the city and its streets are a regular place for residents of the rest of the Vega Baja to walk around. Or its shopping centre, the only one in the interior of the region. But this transfer involves, in times of pandemic, an added risk, especially when the incidence of the coronavirus is greater in towns where their neighbours tend to go to leisure and the services that Orihuela offers. It is the argument that the mayor of the capital of the Vega Baja, the popular Emilio Bascuñana, used last Thursday, when, after verifying that the incidence of the coronavirus in his town had dropped, in large part due to the restrictive measures that "suffers" Since October 16, and in the surrounding municipalities it was high, he had a telephone conversation with the Minister of Health, Ana Barceló, to propose the perimeter closure of the municipality. She was met with the rejection of the health officer of the Consell, justifying that the virus was being contained in the rest of the municipalities of the region and it was not "appropriate" to adopt that measure. There were many who criticized Bascuñana for proposing the perimeter closure of the town to "protect the improvement that the city has" after increasing the cases of coronavirus in neighbouring towns.

 

Buy and try local pomegranats. The increase in world production forces the Elche pomegranate to seek new markets. The competition of two million more tons per year in the last five years and from earlier varieties leads farmers to explore routes in Southeast Asia, the Persian Gulf and Canada. The production of pomegranates worldwide has grown by two million tons in the last five years and more and more early varieties are reaching the market. These two factors hinder the sale of the mollar pomegranate from Elche and have led the Denomination of Origin to make virtue of necessity. For this reason, new markets are being sought to export one of the star products of Camp d'Elx, as well as alternative commercial outlets. Finally, the producers have also put their ingenuity in attracting celebrities, communicators and other influencers to help promote the fruit. The two million more tons per year that are being produced in the last five years and varieties such as Valenciana, Acco, Wonderful, Smith or Bigful, which are part of the more than 500 that the market offers, put the market in check. the Granada of Elche. Although sales in the national market are still very important, as evidenced by the fact that in the last decade they have grown by 20%, producers have opened new business avenues in territories that were not previously explored, such as Southeast Asia, the Persian Gulf or Canada. Despite the fact that the mollar pomegranate is now forced to travel to more exotic places, Elche farmers do not lose sight of the European market, where sales continue to be important, especially in France. “We focus on the Gallic country as our main point of sale in Europe. The French consumer likes seasonal products a lot and values appellations of origin because they are demanding with taste ", they explain from the regulatory council. The commitment to France justifies the campaign with 70 billboards in Rungis. 

 

N332 Torrevieja. The Ministry of Mobility justifies the delay in duplicating the N-332 in Torrevieja because it studies "alternatives" to the route. The draft of the final layout and construction should have been delivered in December 2019. The Ministry of Mobility (Development) has justified the delay of one year in the delivery of the final execution project of the route of the duplication of the variant of the N-332 as it passes through Torrevieja. And it specifies that during the drafting it was considered appropriate to study new alternatives «to carry out the action, with the aim of obtaining the best alternative from an environmental, functional, economic and territorial point of view, which has forced to modify the term », According to central administration sources. The drafting of the final duplication route of the N-332 of Torrevieja is one year late. The drafting of the project was awarded to the company Consultrans in June 2018, with an execution period of 18 months, which ended in December 2019. The Ministry explains this extension of the deadline in addition to the fact that "in the usual progress of projects, reports are requested from various agents and administrations involved, which in this case have also led to an increase in deadlines." In any case, the Ministry of Mobility and Transport clarifies, "we continue to advance, and" in fact, the draft General State Budget Law for 2021 has included provision to continue with the project. The central administration indicates that it cannot budget for the total work in 2021 to unfold the 8.5 kilometer "funnel" of the Torrevieja variant if it still does not know how it is going to execute the route and what it will cost. Depending on the progress of the project, it will allow, in due course, "to know concretely the budgetary needs of the same, it will proceed to provide the budgetary contribution required for the optimal continuation of this action."

 

Hospital kills boy. The autopsy of the deceased minor in Petrer points to peritonitis. The eight-year-old boy went five times to the emergency room of the Petrer health center and the Elda hospital until he died at his house after enduring severe stomach pain for four days. The result of the preliminary autopsy performed on Aitor, the 8-year-old boy from Petrer who died last week after going to the emergency room five times, indicates peritonitis as a possible cause of death. However, the family is waiting to obtain the result of the final autopsy, performed at the Alicante Institute of Legal Medicine, to take legal action. In fact, the parents have already contacted the law firm that will take over the case. Peritonitis is an inflammation of the peritoneum, the thin tissue that lines the inner wall of the abdomen and covers most of the abdominal organs. It is usually caused by an accumulation of blood, body fluids or pus in the belly as a result of a ruptured appendix, a wound in the abdomen, or an infection after surgery. In this case, the results of the autopsy and the expert reports will determine whether death could have been prevented because Aitor was a healthy and happy child, who had never suffered any serious illness nor had he received any blow to the stomach during the previous weeks. to the fatal outcome according to his relatives. As this newspaper has already advanced, the boy's death occurred early in the morning of last Wednesday, October 28, after fainting when he was in the toilet of his house. But since Saturday, October 24, he had a continuous picture of vomiting and complained of a stomach pain so severe that it prevented him from lying on his back and even made it difficult for him to breathe. The different doctors who treated him only supplied him with serums, an analgesic for pain and a treatment to stop the vomiting. At no time was an ultrasound or a blood test performed to try to find out the origin of the abdominal pain that did not even let him sleep. A urinalysis was only performed to rule out that he could be having a diabetic attack. This is how his mother Marta Gonzálvez Alba explains it - she is actually his grandmother but she has raised him with her husband José Antonio Sánchez since he was a baby - in a six and a half minute video that he recorded just one day after burying his « angel ”, and that has gone viral after spreading it on social networks. Social reaction. The reaction of citizens through social networks to this sad event has been massive throughout Spain. In Petrer, a group of neighbours considered holding a protest rally next Saturday but, due to the high risk of contagion from the coronavirus pandemic, it was decided to postpone it until the health situation improves. The Court of First Instance and Instruction Number 3 of Elda, which was on duty when the child lost his life, keeps the preliminary proceedings open after Aitor's family formally requested a forensic autopsy. The duty judge accepted the request and so agreed, although, for the moment, there are no investigated and there is no express complaint against anyone. Therefore, we are waiting to know the report of the result of the autopsy to take new legal measures. For its part, the Elda Health Department has issued a statement "deeply regretting the death of the minor" and making itself available to the family to collaborate in the clarification of the facts.

 

Woman fined for multi tasking. The mayor of Torrevieja will fine the deputy mayor for attending a video meeting while driving. The councillor and deputy mayor, Carmen Gómez (PP) has led while attending the telematic meeting that requires video from the attendees and her express intervention at least to cast the vote / The councillor has apologized and said that when driving you have to be attentive to the wheel exclusively. The telematic celebration of the official meetings of the city councils has achieved that the public positions can attribute the gift of the ubiquity to confirm that they are, even up to questionable limits. The councillor for Contracting and Urban Cleaning of Torrevieja, Carmen Gómez (PP), attended the City Council's Telematics Commission early on Friday while she was driving through a videoconference system. The sequence has been captured and criticized by several members of the opposition who were also connected following the development of the commission. Hours later, in statements to INFORMATION, she has publicly apologized for her behaviour behind the wheel. "When you drive you have to be attentive to driving, with or without hands free," she clarified, to point out that if they give him a fine he will assume it. Mayor Eduardo Dolón (PP), who is also the head of the Local Police - something that the mayor Fanny Serrano (PSOE) reminded him in the session and later in writing - will propose a sanction file for 200 euros to which it is one of his deputy mayors for this offense. Initially, given the warnings of the opposition, especially the mayor of Sueña Torrevieja, Pablo Samper and the socialist councillor Serrano, that the videoconference session was like a "hands-free" call.

 

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