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Alicante City Council will cover the cost of terraces for bars and restaurants until March 31 2023
A freeze on terrace tax in Alicante city has been extended until the end of March next year to help bars, restaurants and hotels survive the Covid pandemic.
The suspension of payment for tables outside was due to expire on Sunday January 16, but city mayor, Luis Barcalá, has signed a decree extending the financial reprieve until March 31 2022.
This is the eighth extension decreed by the mayor to encourage bars, cafes, restaurants and hotels to place as many tables outside as possible, "whilst respecting space for pedestrian traffic and maintaining the recommended distance between tables to avoid the spread of Covid".
Businesses are also authorised to use parking spaces for tables, as long as they don't obstruct traffic or create unsafe situations on the road.
In offering a helping hand to the hospitality sector, one of the hardest hit by the health crisis, the mayor also stressed that the evolution of the coronavirus pandemic has taken a worrying turn in Alicante, where the 14-day cumulative incidence rate has skyrocketed to more than 2,600 infections per 100,000 inhabitants.
"This figure has been increasing progressively and far exceeds those reached during the pandemic," he said on Wednesday January 12.
Given this situation, and taking into account the recent WHO forecasts that half of Europe will have caught Omicron in the next six to eight weeks, it is expected that the measures promoted by the health authorities will continue or even increase in the coming months, according to Barcala.
"As such, it is considered appropriate under the constitutional principle of legal certainty to approve this decree and extend the measures adopted by the City Council at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, as they are still considered necessary in a situation of extraordinary and urgent need."
Image: Ayuntamiento de Alicante
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