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The Andalusian regional president has announced its de-escalation plan to ease Covid restrictions after the end of the state of alarm on May 9 in the eight provinces of the region
As the end of Spain’s second state of alarm nears on May 9, limiting the restrictions regions across the country can put in place to curb the spread of Covid, Andalusia has set out its de-escalation plan to slowly reopen the economy while trying to prevent further infections.
In a speech announcing the measures, the president of the Junta de Andalusia confirmed that the region’s plan will be undertaken in three stages and that the municipal alert level system, with areas given a risk ranking depending on the level of cases per 100,000 inhabitants, will remain in place and affect various of the plan’s restrictions.
This means that individual municipalities with high incidence levels will continue to be confined, although provincial and regional borders will be open from Sunday for all other residents.Click to see the 66 municipalities in which confinements apply this week.
Phase 1: May 9 to May 31
- No curfew
- Andalusia opens its regional borders
- Bars and restaurants will be able to remain open until midnight with the maximum number of people seated at tables limited to eight indoors and 10 outdoors
- Municipalities with high levels of virus will still have restrictions on opening hours and table maximums in place
- Celebrations such as weddings will be able to host up to 500 people outdoors and 300 indoors
- Music bars and nightclubs will be able to reopen until 2am with a maximum of eight people per table indoors and 10 outdoors and dancing allowed in municipalities in level 1 and with mask wearing in place
- Cinemas, theatres, sports events and bullrings will reopen with a spare seat left between spectators in municipalities in alert levels 1 and 2, while in municipalities in other alert levels a distance of 1.5 metres will have to be observed between spectators
- Beaches and swimming pools will be open without any opening hour restrictions but safety distances between groups and other protection measures will be enforced
The Junta also announced that from Sunday it will only close the borders of Andalusian municipalities with more than 5,000 inhabitants and more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people in an accumulated incidence over the previous 14 days.
The map produced by the Andalucían regional health department identifies the areas of the region by sanitary alert level and details the restrictions in each. Individual municipal data can be searched using the tab on the left-hand side of the page.
The details of the final two phases of the de-escalation plan, lasting June 1 to June 21 and then from June 21 until a date to be set out, are yet to be announced. The Junta said the phases are likely to include eliminating more restrictions and extending opening hours further, with the Andalusian government saying 70 per cent of residents will have received at least one dose of the vaccine in the summer.
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