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Sunny side MULTINATIONAL marble company Cosentino’s works in Partaloa and Cantoria will be energy self-sufficient once work has been completed on constructing its own solar plant. With 37,000 solar panels and covering an area of more than 40 hectares, this will be the largest of its kind in Spain and one of the biggest in Europe.
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Easy peasy ROQUETAS Town Hall issued 1,402 permits for minor building works since it decided to cut paperwork and red tape to a minimum in May 2020. This step was taken to simplify applications, stimulate the economy and create jobs, all of which are the municipality’s “maximum priority” explained Urban Agenda councillor Jose Luis Llamas.
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Puzzling but reassuring WITH a cumulative coronavirus rate of 67.6 cases for every 100,000 inhabitants, Almeria Province’s Covid rate continues to fall. This is in direct contrast to Andalucia’s average of 177.6 cases, which is well above Spain’s 98.78‐case average. It also differs from Almeria’s rates during the pandemic’s early waves when it was less badly‐affected but suffered more in the third. Some medical experts attribute Almeria’s improved Covid rates to the climate, although Jesus Aguirre, who heads the Junta’s Health department, put forward another theory in a recent Canal Sur interview. “Almeria’s incidence rate is below 70 while Huelva’s, which had always been exceptional, is 280,” Aguirre pointed out. “Why is the rate going down in some communities while in oth‐ ers, like Andalucia, this has been so much harder to achieve?” he asked. In places where the pandemic previously had a greater impact, more young people developed natural antibodies, the Health chief suggested. “Perhaps young people in some places are now more immune while in other zones like Huelva, where the virus had less impact, they have lower immunity,” Aguirre added. “But this is only a possible diagnosis, as there is no scientific rea‐ soning behind it,” he stressed.