These are the new restrictions approved by Spain’s Ministry of Health for municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants with high rates of infection.
Salvador Illa announced that the Government will issue an order that will be published in the BOE which will allow tighter Covid-19 restrictions in municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants that meet the requirements: “municipalities that have a cumulative incidence of 500 cases per every 100,000 inhabitants during the last 14 days, measured up to five days before the assessment date.”
The municipality must also present diagnostic tests showing active infection by Covid-19 as higher than 10%, and also be part of an autonomous community with an ICU bed occupancy of more than 35% in order to have to apply the new restrictions.
What are the measures?
🔴 The restriction of social contact, restricting the entry and exit of people from these municipalities except for attendance to health centres and other essential reasons such as compliance with work, professional, business or legal obligations; for attendance to university, teaching jobs and other educational needs, including nursery schools. Also, citizens will be allowed to return to their place of habitual residence; for the assistance and care of the elderly; for travel to financial institutions; for urgent actions required in judicial or notarial public bodies; renewal of permits and official documentation ; examinations or official tests that cannot be postponed or causes of force majeure.
🔴 The number of groups of people will be reduced to a maximum of 6.
Capacity in places of worship would be limited to one third, always guaranteeing the distance of 1.5 metres.
🔴There would also be capacity restrictions at wakes: 15 people outdoors and 10 people indoors.
🔴 The capacity in commercial establishments would be 50% and the closing time has to be at 10 at night.
🔴 In the hospitality sector, the capacity would also be limited to 50%. Sitting at the bar would be prohibited in municipalities that meet these requirements. The maximum table group would be 6 people and customers may be admitted until 10 at night and the closing time may not exceed 12 midnight.
Health officials said, “There are also some provisions related to sports facilities and also an instruction regarding the capacities for early detection and control of the disease in the field of public health.”
“It is also recommended that the autonomous communities that are with municipalities of less than 100,000 inhabitants that have these
criteria make special plans for said localities.”