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The people’s paper Issue No. 1875 10 - 16 June 2021
Beach plans ELCHE City Hall announced that, if the Health authorities permit, it hopes to dispense with the need to divide its beaches into sectors this summer and impose limits to capacity.
Animal shelter TORREVIEJA Town Hall will spend €700,000 on a new animal shelter with a veterinary service, offices, laundry and staff changing room as well as a play area for the dogs.
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Keeping watch TWENTY-ONE CCTV cameras will be installed at Crevillent’s sports installations to forestall or, if necessary, follow up on theft, vandalism and other anti-social incidents, the town hall’s Sports department announced.
Mild tremor ON Friday last week, Spain’s National Geography Institute registered a 1.9 magnitude earth tremor that was 60 kilometres east-south-east off the Santa Pola coast at a depth of 15 kilometres.
Eduardo Dolón, Torrevieja’s mayor (left) and Domingo Paredes, councillor for Innovation (right).
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Adios to the curfew! NO curfew, restaurants and bars open until 1am, nightlife venues until 2am and no limit to social gatherings. The expected announce‐ ment by Ximo Puig, the Valencian Community’s president marked a beginning of the end to the region’s anti‐Covid restrictions. Social distancing remains, as well as masks, although they are no longer necessary on the beach or in open countryside. The Valencia region’s cautious reopening had demonstrated its efficiency, creating the Valencian Community’s “unique” health situ‐ ation that allowed it to move forward, Puig said. Talking after the Generalitat’s latest interdepartmental meeting, Puig pointed out that the Valencian Community’s Covid‐incidence rate is still Spain’s lowest at three‐and‐a‐half times below the national average. “The Valencian Community is an EU point of reference as a safe destination, like Malta,” the Generalitat president said. Referring to the curfew, Puig declared he had kept his promise that it would not be in place for “one day longer” than was strictly necessary. Nevertheless, the nightlife sector was disappointed to learn that dancefloors must remain empty, with indoor capacity fixed at 50 per cent and no drinking at the bar. The sector had made so many sacrifices for the general good, Puig admitted, but predicted that continuing the region’s “gradual and prudent” reopening meant that all sectors would reach July “in the best condition.”