The Provincial Delegation of Health in Ciudad Real has The confinement of Bolaños de Calatrava was decreed due to the increase in cases of COVID-19 in recent days, making it the second town in Castilla-La Mancha to apply more restrictive measures, after the Albacete municipality of Villamalea.
The objective of this measure is contain the advance of the coronavirus in the municipality: at the moment this town of just under 12,000 inhabitants have confirmed 180 cases in the last two weeks.
Bolaños de Calatrava in Ciudad Real It is the municipality with the most cases of coronavirus detected last week per inhabitant. The data comes from the statistics that the Board has made official in towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants.
Already from the past August 26, special measures had been adopted to stop the expansion of infections that had been taking place, but the evolution of the coronavirus has forced them to harden, the Ministry of Health reported in a press release.
Confinement limits the entry and exit of people to the town, with the exception of trips with urgent consideration or for work necessity.
The closure of social centers and bars, as well as the elimination of visits and outings in centers for the elderly and collective leisure activities.
I know sports shows are suspended attended by the public, street markets and open-air markets.
I know restricts the number of people in wakes to a maximum of ten and the suspension of social events such as weddings and baptisms is proposed.
The local schools will carry out a non-face-to-face educational model, guaranteeing at all times the right to education.
From the Epidemiology service it is rconducting a careful monitoring of the isolation of all cases and contacts, in collaboration with the health team of the health center and the epidemiological surveillance nurses, who remember that it is “essential” that everyone follow their instructions.
These measures are taken for a period of 14 days.
Throughout this Thursday, September 3, they have been performing extraordinary PCR tests in an emergency post that has been installed by Health and that are added to those that are already done regularly from the health center so that more positives are being detected, in the majority of asymptomatic cases.
From the consistory, additional disinfection work continues, both on the streets and in public facilities.
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