“The evolution of the virus is being bad.” This is how the president of the Xunta has ended, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, his press conference in which he gave an account of the restrictions approved by the Galician Government after the last meeting of the Clinical Committee. The councils in a situation of medium and high risk increase in the A Coruña area, capacity is limited throughout the hotel industry and proof of vaccination or negative test will be required to access the interior of the premises in high-level councils. In addition, the meetings of non-partners are limited. Decisions, the latter, which, as they affect fundamental rights, must be ratified -or not- by the TSXG.
Meetings
The Superior Court of Xustiza de Galicia must decide whether to support the limitations of rights agreed by the Galician Government. The intention of the Xunta is to prohibit meetings of more than 6 non-cohabitants indoors and of more than 10 outdoors. This limit may be exceeded if it only consists of two groups of cohabitants.
At night, all meetings of non-cohabitants would be prohibited from 1 to 6 in the morning in the case of municipalities that become at a high level; from 3 to 6 in the morning in the rest.
The Xunta has also approved restrictions for the level of risk of the municipalities and that do not require judicial endorsement, so they would come into force in any case at midnight from Friday to Saturday.
Restrictions by municipalities
Oleiros, Carballo, Vimianzo and Fisterra They will be at high risk from Saturday. The Xunta no longer only takes into account the accumulated incidence in these municipalities, but also the care pressure in the reference hospital centers. In these municipalities, the hotel industry must reduce capacity to 50% indoors and on the terrace. In addition, to access the interior, it will be mandatory to present a vaccination certificate, a negative covid19 test (PCR or antigens) of up to 72 hours or demonstrate that the disease has been passed. Children under 12 years of age will be exempt from these measures.
A Coruña, Culleredo, Cambre and Sada They are the only councils in the metropolitan area that will be at an intermediate level. In these municipalities, the hotel industry also reduces capacity to 50% indoors and on terraces, although no documentation will be required to access the interior of the premises.
At a low level, the bulk of the municipalities of A Coruña will remain, in which the hospitality industry will be limited to 50% but can serve 100% on terraces, as long as the distance of one and a half meters between tables is complied with.
The nightlife it will remain open in the town councils at medium or medium-low level in the same conditions in which it was already allowed to open. From this Wednesday with the obligation to present negative proof of covid19 or vaccination certificate.
Concerts and parties They will not have major limitations, since, as the president of the Xunta has explained, they have their own specific protocols.
Restrictions to which Galicia returns to the advance of a fifth wave that worries the Clinical Committee. With current data, the peak of this wave would not arrive for another two weeks, and the consequences in the ICU imply, Feijoo has warned, a risk that for now had remained under control (not even 3% of those available are occupied) .
Feijoo has assured that the “impossibility” of advancing “faster” in the vaccination campaign forces them to take these measures. 80% of the cases registered in recent weeks are of people under 40 years of age. The age groups that have not been vaccinated in the majority or that have not even received the first dose. In this sense, the president of the Xunta explained that next week the vaccination of those under 30 years of age will begin. This week ends the 1st dose campaign for those aged 30-39 and next week the campaign for those aged 40-49.
Nacho Ramil sees restrictions as “insufficient” and predicts the peak between August 7 and 10
The coordinator of Internal Medicine at Hospital Modelo, Nacho Ramil, considers insufficient, from a medical point of view, the restrictions announced by the president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. He predicts that in the coming days the Galician government will have to toughen them due to the advance of the pandemic. Ramil places the peak of this new wave of coronavirus infections between August 7 and 10.
The specialist warns that there are two or three hard weeks ahead, until sanitary measures allow to bend this curve. He considers it a priority to convince young people that they should be vaccinated and attend screening. For Nacho Ramil, the message that the pandemic had ended due to the good evolution that it presented at the end of spring and the opening of nightlife have been key to this new wave.
The coordinator of Internal Medicine of the Model calls for a strategy to reach the youngest because right now they are the age group on which the progress of the pandemic depends.
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