Wednesday, March 27

The bipartite extends the expansion of the terraces until the end of March due to the outbreak of infections



The expansion of terraces due to the covid pandemic is extended for another month and a half due to the outbreak of infections due to the omicron variant. The mayor of Alicante, Luis Barcala, has signed this Wednesday the decree of extension until next March 31 of the terraces and watchmen of hotel and restaurant establishments, whose validity expired this Sunday. This measure has been in place since the de-escalation began, in May 2020. Barcala thus responds to the request sent by the associations of the hospitality sector. This measure had already been recently announced in the neighboring town of El Campello.

It’s about the eighth extension decreed by the popular regidor with the aim of “encourage bars, cafes and restaurants to place as many tables as possible, respecting the corridors for pedestrian traffic, keeping the distance between tables. “At the same time, the decree protects the use for these pedestrians of spaces intended for parking vehicles, “as long as they do not obstruct road traffic or cause unsafe situations on the road“This measure will have a cost for the City Council due to the reduction of the places for regulated parking (blue and orange zone).

The mayor’s decree indicates that the evolution of the pandemic offers, as of this Wednesday, a Accumulated incidence in the city of Alicante exceeding 2,600 infections for every 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, “a figure that has been increasing progressively and that far exceeds the figures reached during the entire period of time in which the health crisis situation that we have been suffering persists.”

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Faced with this situation, and taking into account the recent WHO forecasts for the coming weeks in Europe as a whole, “it is expected that the measures promoted by the health authorities will last or even be increased in the coming months, so it is considered appropriate, by virtue of the constitutional principle of legal certainty, the approval of this Decree to extend the measures adopted by the City Council at the beginning of the pandemic, while they continue to be deemed necessary in a situation of extraordinary and urgent need ”.

The document signed by Barcala also refers to the Resolution of October 8, 2021, of the Regional Minister for Universal Health and Public Health, that maintains certain restrictions on consumption in the interiors of the premises, specifically in the bars, as well as the need to preserve the safety distance of 1.5 meters between the tables on the hospitality terraces.

The decree maintains that the epidemiological evolution of the pandemic requires, on the other hand, that the different Public Administrations, “assume the responsibility of adopting all the measures have the power to develop so that the authorized activities conform to the premise of safeguarding the health security of citizens in a manner compatible with the conservation of the essential foundations of the productive fabric, thus contributing to favor the survival of the sectors strategies and their prompt economic recovery ”.


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