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ARCHIVED - Only 51 municipalities in Andalusia remain closed from this Friday as restrictions are relaxed
The relaxation in restrictions will take effect from 00:00 this Friday, February 26.
From midnight this Friday, February 26, only 51 municipalities in the whole of the vast Andalucía region will continue with the existing perimeter closure, and only six will continue with the suspension of all non-essential activity.
In just these six locations, the rate of 1,000 cases of Covid-19 coronavirus for each 100,000 inhabitants during the last 14 days has been exceeded and in the 51 municipalities which must remain confined the rate of 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants has been exceeded.
This means that for 81 municipalities, the enforced perimeter closure of municipal boundaries will cease at midnight, and 23 will recover “non-essential activity”, permitting non-essential retailers to re-open.
Among the municipalities which will leave the perimeter closure this midnight are two provincial capitals, Almería and Cádiz, and large cities such as Marbella and Estepona in the province of Málaga and Algeciras, San Fernando and Chiclana de la Frontera, in the province of Cádiz.
According to the latest data updated by the Ministry of Health, the 51 municipalities which remain closed are as follows: 13 in Seville, 12 in Granada and Almería, five in Cádiz, four in Jaén, three in Málaga and one in Córdoba and Huelva, although only four of them -Seville, Granada, Málaga and Almería- have municipalities that exceed a thousand infections per 100,000 residents in the last two weeks.
Specifically, the localities that exceed the rate of 1,000 cases are Paterna del Río (1,095.9) in the province of Almería; Alhama de Granada (1,158) and Domingo Pérez (1,139) in Granada; Montejaque (1,791.4) in Malaga; and El Castillo de las Guardas (2,452.3, the highest rate in all of Andalusia) and Alanís (1,055.1) in the province of Seville.
The rest of the municipalities with a rate higher than 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over 14 days are
Almeria; Ohanes, Viator, Los Gallardos, Garrucha, Lúcar, Pulpí, Urrácal, Vélez Rubio, Vera, Balanegra and Félix
Córdoba; Barbate, Grazalema, Olvera, Puerto Serrano and Alcalá del Valle in Cádiz; and Valsequillo
Granada; in addition to Alhama and Domingo Pérez, which exceed the 1,000 rate, there are more than 500 cases in other ten locations: Vélez de Benaudalla, Aldeire, La Calahorra, Cuevas del Campo, Guadix, Orce, Zújar, Benalúa de las Villas, Ugíjar and Moraleda de Zafayona.
In Huelva, the only municipality with a rate higher than 500 is Cuevas de San Bartolomé.
Jaén; Fuensanta de Martos, Cambil, Vilches and Hornos.
Malaga; Árchez and Benaoján, register a rate between 500 and 1,000
Seville; Alcalá del Río, Brenes, La Campana, Cantillana, Guillena, Lora del Río , El Ronquillo, Los Molares, Paradas, El Garrobo and Montellano – to which are added two others with a rate of over a thousand - El Castillo de las Guardas and Alanís.