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The people’s paper ISSUE NO. 1854
14 - 20 January 2021
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TOUGHER RESTRICTIONS
THE Government of An dalucia will announce a tightening of mobility re strictions tomorrow, Friday January 15. The president of the com munity of Andalucia, Juan ma Moreno, has put togeth er a series of tougher measures, agreed with the regional government. After a meeting, late Tuesday night, with the Ad visory Committee on high impact public health alerts in Andalucia, it was decided that ‘new stricter measures that affect mobility and economic activity within the community will, unfortu nately, have to be taken,’ said Mr Moreno. It was also suggested that the central government “should start thinking about whether to take a measure such as total confinement” for the whole of Spain. Concerned about the rapid spread of the virus in La Linea and the recent surge in cases in Andalucia itself has led the community President to make the deci sion as, according to re ports, he cannot wait the 14 days normally left between announcements to bring in the new restrictions. The public will have to wait until tomorrow to hear
JUANMA MORENO: Has put together a series of tougher measures.
all the details, but the Presi dent, when asked, would not rule out total confine ment for the region. The announcement fol lows news the Andalucia Government is giving direct aid of €1,000 aid to SMEs in commerce, hospitality, crafts and tourism four of the sectors hit hardest by the Covid pandemic. The Governing Council
plans to distribute slices of a €46.1 million fund to around 46,000 small and mediumsized Andalucian businesses as a matter of urgency. The crisis cash aid is in cluded in the Support Plan for SMEs and the selfem ployed which was signed last November between the Junta and the Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Andalu
cia (CEA), the Association of SelfEmployed (ATA) and the Chambers of Commerce. The aim is to ‘contribute to the continuity of the business developed by these SMEs, avoiding their definitive cessation and, therefore, job losses.’ “Commercial and artisan establishments, hospitality and tourism intermediation have been severely affected
by both national and re gional measures for the pre vention and containment of
the pandemic, which in clude capacity limitations, closing time and even re strictions on opening or performance of its activity,” said the Junta de Andalucia in a statement. The authority also high lighted the additional costs small businesses have in curred to cover the cost of installing and implementing health and safety measures in line with the govern ment’s recommendations. All of these elements have contributed towards “endangering the very sur vival of these small and mediumsized companies,” said the authority. The aid will be separated into two lines of subsidies the first is intended for the retail trade and handicraft sector, and the second will benefit the Andalucian hos pitality industry (which in cludes tourism establish ments, travel agencies and catering businesses).