THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 30-33 Issue No. 1905
6 - 12 January 2022
No new restrictions T H E R E will be no new restrictions in Andalu‐ cia and the extension of Covid passport in bars and nightclubs has only been requested until the end of January. The president of the Junta de Andalucia, Juanma Moreno chaired a meeting of the expert committee Malaga on January 3 to analyse the evolution of the current wave of the pandemic. They agreed to request authorisation from the Andalucian High Court of Justice (TSJA) to ex‐ tend the use of Covid passports until the end of the month, but no further restrictions were revealed. The extension in‐ cludes the use of certifi‐ cates of vaccination, proof of recovery or a negative test. PCR tests taken within 72 hours and antigen tests taken within 48 hours and performed by an autho‐ rised centre are valid. This applies to those entering hospitality and nightlife establishments and those visiting hos‐ pitals and nursing homes.
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SUNDAY OPENINGS Credit: Tyk CC WELCOME NEWS: Shopping centres may open on more Sundays.
ON January 3, the Junta de Andalucia declared that Malaga Province had been recognised an ‘Area of Great Tourist Influx ’which will allow larger shops to open on 26 Sundays in the year. This will be good news to shoppers in Benalmadena, Es‐ tepona, Fuengirola, Malaga City, Marbella
Mijas and Torremolinos as well as parts of Manilva (Duquesa and Sabinillas). Although the majori‐ ty of Sundays will fall between June and September (plus some Monday public holi‐ days), there will be full opening at Easter and December as well as between one and two
Sundays most months. This decision means that shops with more than 300 square metres of space such as de‐ partment stores and supermarkets may open on the agreed Sundays, whilst certain essential services such as fuel, bakers etc are not constrained by time or day.
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Mist affects flights IT is not unusual for adverse weather conditions to mean that flights in and out of Gibraltar have to be diverted to Malaga Airport, but Malaga has itself unusually been hit by the weather. On Tuesday January 4, a mist known as taro which is caused from time to time along much of the Costa del Sol coastline due to a difference in temperature between the land and the sea, found its way inland. This natural phenomenon made it dangerous for aircraft to land or take off from Malaga air‐ port between 7am and 9am, affecting around a dozen scheduled flights before visibility cleared sufficiently and normal service was restored.