Andalucía now has new restrictions in place to tackle the third wave of the pandemic. The president of the Junta, Juanma Moreno, chaired today’s meeting with the committee of experts, after which he announced the agreed measures, which replace those established for the Christmas period and will come into force on Monday at 00:00 until 25 January. As a result, the region remains closed at its borders, having been open during the festive period. It will only be possible to enter and leave Andalucía «for justified reasons».
The region’s municipalities, however, will continue to have freedom of movement, as was the case at Christmas, except for Añora, the town with the highest cumulative rate in Andalucía, and the eight towns of the Campo de Gibraltar that already had this restriction. Movement between provinces will also remain permitted «for the time being». Moreno added that, when the experts advise it, this measure «will be limited». «We are going to give these measures some time to see whether infections slow down», he explained.
Moreno also confirmed that the curfew, which had been in force from 23:00 to 06:00, is being changed again to start earlier, at 22:00, and end at 06:00. Gatherings, meanwhile, are limited to six people.
In hospitality, home delivery is permitted until 23:30 and collection from establishments until 21:30.
As for the start of the school term, it «will go ahead as normal», and university classes in provinces at level 4 will be online. In this regard, «a strict protocol» will be established for the arrival of exams.
Today, the Consejería de Salud y Familias (regional health department), in collaboration with the Instituto de Estadística y Cartografía de Andalucía, has officially published the data for the last 24 hours, which include three new positive cases of COVID-19 in our town, raising the active incidence rate from 199.6 to 212.5 (cases per 100,000 inhabitants). The total number of confirmed cases in Manilva since the start of the pandemic is 333 people, with 5 deaths.
As of today, 8 January, the active cases over the last 14 days are:
- Manilva: 35 cases (2 more)
- Estepona: 133 cases (2 more)
- San Roque: 183 cases (20 more)
- Castellar: 10 cases (1 more)
- Los Barrios: 63 cases (9 fewer)
- La Línea: 771 cases (19 fewer)
- Algeciras: 276 cases (8 fewer)
- Benahavís: 6 cases (1 fewer)
- Marbella: 301 cases (26 more)
- Casares: 6 cases (unchanged)
Coronavirus infections in Andalucía continue to rise at the same rate, with an increase of 1,171 people in the last 24 hours. According to the latest figures from the Consejería de Salud y Familias, the region has a cumulative total of 273,990 people, with a rate that has risen from 3,235 to 3,256 (per 100,000 inhabitants).
In the province of Málaga the increase in the last 24 hours stands at 492 new cases, with a cumulative total of 41,391 people and an incidence rate that has gone from 2,461 to 2,491 (per 100,000 inhabitants), with 4,084 people hospitalised (+16), 362 in intensive care (+1) and 788 deaths (+7).
This newsroom has produced a chart showing the total positive cases since the start of the pandemic, the details for the last 14 days and recoveries, which we update from Monday to Friday and have included in our «Coronavirus Special.»
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