THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 14 - 18 Issue No. 1920
21 - 27 April 2022
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Travelling library THE Provincial Council of Malaga is launching the second edition of its Plan to Encourage Reading Among the Elderly with a mobile li‐ brary that will visit a total of 87 municipali‐ ties with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants in the province of Malaga. The aim of the initiative is to improve and encourage reading habits among the over 65s to favour their mental health, while marking the occasion of World Book Day on April 23. It will begin today, Thursday, April 21, with visits to Algarrobo, Sayalonga and Archez. The president of the Provincial Council of Malaga, Francisco Salado, highlighted the benefits of reading for mental health. “Read‐ ing is a way of feeling like someone is with you, of occupying and stimulating the mind and exercising the memory and concentration. It is a pleasurable and entertaining activity that helps you fall asleep,” he said.
Hosting the final gala.
RINCON D E L A V I C T O R I A will host the final gala of Miss World Malaga and Mister In‐ ternational Malaga, the councillor for Tourism, Antonio Jose Martin, said on April 11. In addition to the gala, the candidates will carry out numerous activities in the munici‐ pality, including fash‐ ion shows with clothes from local businesses and appearances at sporting events. The mayor of Rincon, Francisco Salado, high‐ lighted the opportunity for the municipality to promote tourism through such high‐pro‐ file competitions “while offering young people a platform to make themselves known in the world of images, film or other performing arts.” Martin added: “The winners of the provin‐ cial gala on June 4 will represent Malaga at Mister International Spain and Miss World Spain, which will take place just two weeks later in Pineda del Mar, Barcelona.” Miss World was cre‐ ated in the United King‐ dom by Eric Morley in 1951. Since his death in 2000, Morley’s widow, Julia Morley, has co‐ chaired the pageant.
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MASK FREE: We can now recover normality and show our faces and smiles.
SPAIN officially ditched masks on Wednesday, April 20. The govern‐ ment’s new rules came into effect immediate‐ ly. Masks still must be worn in three instances though by workers, vis‐ itors, customers, users and patients in some cases. Masks must be worn in health centres and establishments, homes for the elderly and on public trans‐ port. Masks must be worn in ‘health centres, ser‐ vices and establish‐ ments’ by ‘workers, visitors and patients, with the exception of persons admitted when they remain in their rooms’. This includes ‘hospi‐
tals, health centres, blood transfusion cen‐ tres or pharmacies, mental health hospi‐ tals and other inpa‐ tient facilities, dental clinics, surgeries of all kinds, assisted repro‐ duction clinics and ex‐ amination centres, op‐ ticians, orthopaedic and hearing aid estab‐ lishments’. The Spanish govern‐ ment maintains that masks should be worn in health establish‐ ments because they ‘may have a higher concentration of vul‐ nerable persons’ and that the possibility of transmission is higher in these places. Masks will also re‐ main mandatory in
nursing homes and so‐ cial health centres for workers and visitors when in shared areas. The final require‐ ment is that masks need to be worn on public transport. This includes air, rail, boats and buses and other forms of public trans‐ port. Masks will no longer need to be worn on platforms and at sta‐ tions.
MOBILE LIBRARY: An entertaining activity.