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ISSUE NO. 1809
5 - 11 March 2020
MOJACAR Council sealed the door to Maui, one of the Costa Almeria’s most popular beachside venues for partying youngsters. Local Police have put a notification up on Maui’s doors informing of the closure. The move follows a council resolution and the administration’s noti-
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MAUI: Was operating without the right kind of licences.
ALMERIA (at the time of going to press) has its first case of Coronavirus, the Junta de Andalucia Health Department confirmed. The news broke last Friday that a 28-year-old architect who lives in Milan and who had decided to return to his home in Almeria had been admitted to the Mediterraneo Hospital in the provincial capital after being diagnosed with the virus. He went to the hospital’s emergencies department on Tuesday when he started a cough and experienced muscular pains in his neck. It was decided he should stay at home under active monitoring and return if the symptoms got worse or he started running a fever. By the Wednesday he had a temperature. He went back to
Coronavirus confirmed the hospital and was tested for Coronavirus. The following day the result came back positive and he was put into isolation. The Junta Health department reported the young man was making a steady recovery and by Sunday afternoon he had been allowed to return home. He told Spanish press on Saturday he had nothing worse than cold-like symptoms and had had just one day of a high temperature “I think it is important to avoid alarm and stay calm,” he commented. “At all times I have had very minor symptoms, I’m absolutely
fine. This is not ebola,” he added The architect described the situation in Milan as “chaotic” and said it had even been difficult to find food in supermarkets. Originally he had planned to selfquarantine in his flat in the Italian city, but in the end decided to come back to Almeria as at that time he had not experienced any symptoms of the virus. “I took all possible precautions, although I could not buy a mask as just like in Spain they had sold out,” he said. “I tried to not have contact with anyone and I constantly washed my hands.” He told press he believed he could have picked up the virus
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fication in January of the imposition of a €20,000 fine on the company behind Maui and stating that the establishment should not open for a period of 24 months due to a ‘serious violation’ of the law on Public Spaces and Leisure Activities in Andalucia. The local authority affirms the establishment
at Milan airport on the previous Monday when he flew to Granada. “I was in the airport a long time and perhaps the contagion happened there, because none of my Milan flatmates or people I know there have the virus.” He also said he took every precaution when he arrived in Spain, not shaking his family’s hands or kissing them. The Mediterraneo hospital has adopted all the measures set out in the protocol for cases like the coronavirus. The 28-year-old’s family and people he has been in close contact with are also being monitored and have been instructed to be on the alert for symptoms compatible with the illness.
was operating as a music bar without the right kind of licences. The establishment’s legal representatives have reportedly lodged a contentious-administrative appeal with the Almeria courts to get the venue’s doors reopened.