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Date Published: 22/07/2021
ARCHIVED - New restrictions will ruin entire tourist season warns Alicante mayor
Capacity and social limitations with selective curfews in Alicante province "threaten the success of summer".
The Mayor of Alicante, Luis Barcala, has warned that proposed anti-Covid restrictions from Monday, July 26, including an extension of the 1am to 6am curfew to the city and 17 other municipalities, threaten to "ruin" the entire tourist season and the survival of thousands of jobs related to the sector.
He has criticised the "ineffective and disconcerting" management of the pandemic by the Valencia regional government, arguing out: "We were asked for a 'sobresfuerzo' (extra effort) at Easter to save the summer, but the government did not do their homework and dismissed 3,000 health workers."
According to Barcala, this has been followed by the "lowest rate of vaccination amongst autonomous communities", and he recalled that six weeks ago, the regional president, Ximo Puig, was boasting about having the "best figures in Europe", but today "the opposite is true".
In this short period, the region's 14-day cumulative incidence rate has jumped considerably from 26 cases per 100,000 inhabitants to 519 as of today (Thursday, July 22), meaning it is now the autonomous community with the ninth highest rate in the country, which has a national average of 645.
The concern is that the new restrictions are "playing very dangerously with the health of people and the economy", says the Alicante mayor.
Earlier today, Puig said that in addition to the restrictions, necessary to "stop" the recent surge, the government plans to "accelerate" the vaccination campaign, and will receive 441,570 doses of the Moderna vaccine in August, more than double the amount originally planned, adding that three million people have received at least one jab.
The Delta variant already accounts for 90 per cent of new cases, so it's "crucial" to intensify and accelerate vaccination to stop the advance of coronavirus, says Puig, a move which Costa Blanca's hotel employers' assocation Hosbec says is the "only solution" to return to some semblance of normalcy.
IMAGE: Ayuntamiento de Alicante/Luis Barcala Sierra
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