The Xunta de Galicia multiplies the restrictions in 60 ‘councils’ of Galicia among which are the seven large cities: Vigo, A Coruña, Pontevedra, Ourense, Lugo, Ferrol and Santiago de Compostela. Among the averages that the president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, just announced, highlights the closure of the hospitality industry in all of them. Also, only essential activities will be allowed. “We are concerned about the situation in Galicia and the rest of Spain; the restrictions must be reinforced,” stressed the regional president. The perimeter closures are maintained, which extends to all these municipalities.
As the regional president advanced, these new restrictions They will come into force next Friday at three in the afternoon and will remain for a month. He clarified that the situation will be analyzed in case they could get up earlier. Feijóo emphasized that all these municipalities most affected by the pandemic will follow the O Carballiño model. “It allowed in 20 days to reduce the incidence to more than half,” he said.
“The virus has already claimed 951 lives in Galicia“Feijóo said. In spite of everything, he stressed that it is the third autonomous community with the least incidence. In any case, it was clear:” It is time to expand the limitations for our health and for the economy, “he said.” They are difficult decisions and I am aware that the limitations are frustrating, “he added.
In the case of hospitality
It occurs only a few hours after the clinical committee agreed yesterday to maintain the restrictions set last Friday, such as the perimeter closure of large cities and the prohibition of holding meetings between non-cohabitants in all these areas.
“I reiterate our current concern in Galicia and in the rest of Spain”, stressed the regional president. “The virus has already claimed 951 lives in Galicia,” he said.
The clinical committee meeting that ended late at night yesterday ended without new measures, so that the seven main Galician cities would continue to be closed on the perimeter and meetings will continue to be limited to cohabitants in the municipalities where this measure was already in place. vigor.
During the meeting between the technicians and the Galician Executive more drastic restrictions were considered, which affected the hours of the hospitality sector. Although they will foreseeably remain on the table, they were not finally adopted yesterday. The next meeting of the clinical committee, made up of 34 Galician health professionals, will be held this Friday.
Feijóo’s appearance also occurs after Galicia suffered its most lethal day of the second wave with 21 deaths, one of the worst figures in the entire pandemic. Yesterday more hopeful news arrived with a certain slowdown in the number of infections. However, again it was necessary to mourn the death of seven people due to Covid-19.
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Contagions today in Galicia
After the clinical committee of the Xunta decided, during the night of this Tuesday, to maintain the perimeter closure of their cities, Galicia today presents figures that are among the worst in this second wave of the pandemic. The Galician community adds 626 cases of Covid-19 confirmed by PCR in the last 24 hours, of them 187 in the area of Vigo and 120 in that of A Coruña and Cee. Thus, on this day, infections reappear, exceeding those of this Tuesday by about 200, which represents an increase of 30%.
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