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Coronavirus: Perimeter closures for the December bridge | Society

Many autonomous communities have announced the perimeter closure of their territory until after the December bridge (they are national holidays on Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 December), in an attempt to reduce the cases of coronavirus and the restrictions are the least possible in Christmas. TOyes there is the map of this atypical bridge of the Constitution and the Immaculate Conception.

Basque Country

The Basque Country will maintain at least until December 10 the perimeter closure of the autonomous community and that of all its municipalities with each other, because it is in a situation of high hospital tension, although there is a downward trend in the contagion curve.

Valencian Community

Ximo Puig announced the extension of the restrictions and the perimeter closure of the community until the 9th December said that this Christmas “they are not going to live as usual” and added: “We know there will be restrictions.”

Murcia region

The Government of Murcia has also decided extend the regional perimeter confinement until December 9 and his 45 municipalities, which was decreed on October 30.

Madrid’s community

The Community of Madrid will close for ten days, between December 4 and 14. The announcement of the closure of the region has a special impact on neighboring communities due to the large volume of displacements during these dates. Madrid capital receives numerous visits during the bridge of the Constitution of people from other communities who come to the city to do their Christmas shopping and see the decorations, taking advantage of the two holidays. The Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, opens the possibility that in the face of Christmas meetings of more than 6 people or changes in the curfew can be held.

Castilla la Mancha

The autonomous community will also remain Perimeter closed until at least the next bridge that links the festivities of the Constitution Day and the Immaculate Conception is completed.. This has been assured by García-Page in a visit to Talavera de la Reina, where he has also indicated that this coming Friday, if the data allow it, work is being done so that all the municipalities in the region that are currently at level 3 of measures restrictive measures could go back and equalize the entire autonomous community at level 2, which will positively affect “a multitude of businesses and shops”.

Castile and Leon

It is another of the CCAA that is waiting to announce news for the bridge; for now, the region is perimeter closed until December 3, just before the December bridge, but President Alfonso Fernández Mañueco calls for “a common position” among all the autonomous communities to take measures for the December bridge and also for Christmas, which would indicate that, like Madrid would close for the bridge. The vice president of the Board, Francisco Igea, has already said that the perimeter closure will remain until after the bridge.

Catalonia

Catalonia announces the perimeter closure of the entire region until December 21. It is the autonomous community that has placed the closure of its territory closer to Christmas.

Navarra

The Government of Navarra has decreed the closure Until 18 December. No one may enter or leave the provincial community without proof that proves the reasons for this displacement.

The Rioja

This Wednesday, November 25, the Riojan government has announced that it is extending until December 19 the perimeter confinement in the entire community and the limitation of meetings to six people. Therefore, this region will be closed during the December bridge. On November 29, the ban on entering and leaving the capital, Logroño, is lifted, but not the city of Arnedo, which will remain closed on the perimeter until December 19.

Asturias

Asturias remains closed on the perimeter indefinitely, a measure in force since last October 28 that will last until the Principality revokes it, while the closure of the three main cities, Oviedo, Gijón and Avilés, has just been extended until December 3.

Andalusia

Andalusia has extended until December 10 the perimeter closure of all municipalities of the community, the closure of all non-essential activities from 6:00 p.m. and the curfew from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. to stop the advance of the pandemic. They are also not allowed until December 10 to enter or leave the autonomous community without justification.

Cantabria

Cantabria will address this week in the Interterritorial with the Ministry of Health the mobility policy for the next bridge of the Constitution and Christmas, although the regional government is not in favor of relaxing mobility restrictions because they are essential to control infections. For now Cantabria is in perimeter closure of the community and its municipalities until December 2. The Cantabrian president, Miguel Angel Revilla, defends that “it is essential that both Asturias, Castilla y León, Cantabria, La Rioja, Navarra and Euskadi are on a similar line so that there is no confusion among citizens and that the measures are effective”.

Aragon

The press conference is expected next Thursday for Aragón to reveal its socks for the December long weekend. Until then, The perimeter closure does not affect the entire region, but it does affect the three capitals, Zaragoza, Huesca and Teruel, until November 30. The forecast is that mobility restrictions continue in Aragon.

Autonomous city of Ceuta

Ceuta will maintain the restrictions for travel to the Peninsula and the closure of the border with Morocco until after December 8.

Autonomous city of Melilla

Melilla has extended the curfew for 15 more days until 10:00 p.m., a nightly confinement that began to be applied on October 25, as well as the travel restrictions that began three days later, limitations that will continue at least until 00:00 hours on December 7, 2020.

Galicia

The Xunta has informed the Government that it will proceed to close the perimeter of the entire community from 12:01 am on December 4 until Wednesday 9 at the same time, which represents the entire holiday bridge. According to sources from the Galician Executive this Wednesday, this decision is adopted because the clinical committee considers it a priority to restrict mobility with Portugal, given the high incidence of coronavirus in this country, and “it is not appropriate to do it in parts”, so it will finally be decreed the closure of the entire community. The president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, had already announced this morning, in the press conference in which he presented the de-escalation plan, that he would establish “mobility restrictions” with Portugal as of Friday, when the process of departure from the maximum restrictions established three weeks ago.

Extremadura, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands

Where at the moment the perimeter closure of the community’s territory has not been established It is in Galicia, Extremadura, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.

In Galicia, and at least until December 4th, the Xunta has chosen close by zones, which are concentrated in the surroundings of the seven cities, A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense, Pontevedra, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo and Ferrol, and some other municipalities with a high rate of infections. In total, 68 municipalities currently have limited entry and exit from their territories.

Neither does the perimeter of Estremadura is closed, but rather those entry and exit restrictions affect the eight municipalities: Zarza de Garanadilla, Fuenlabrada de los Montes, Hervás, Los Santos de Maimona, Arromolinos de Montánchez, Alcuéscar, Aliseda and Vegaviana, which have a population of close to 21,900 inhabitants.

The only perimeter closure in force in Baleares affects the Mallorcan city of Manacor, in force until November 26, although the Government is studying lifting it earlier, given the good evolution of the pandemic in the municipality.

The authorities of Canary Islands they do not speak of possibilities of closure and, on the contrary, they begin to think about Christmas. The Minister of Health, Blas Trujillo, informed the plenary session of the Autonomous Parliament that a protocol to offer PCR or antigen tests to Canarian residents who return to the islands for the Christmas holidays. The intention is to offer those test charged to the Government of the Canary Islands 72 hours before starting the trip, and the counselor has specified that the councils collaborate in this action.

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