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Date Published: 20/11/2020
ARCHIVED - Mazarron bars could potentially re-open next week
There is very little chance of Alhama de Murcia and Totana bars re-opening in the near future
There was a significant amount of confusion on Thursday evening regarding the re-opening of bars and restaurants with both Opinión and Verdad jumping the gun and publishing inaccurate information about which municipalities would be permitted to open in advance of the press conference.
Opinión proclaimed in one headline that bars in Murcia and Cartagena would be re-opening, then changed the text and said bars in 35 municipalities would be permitted to open, and gave a list of municipalities which were excluded. Verdad initially included Mazarrón in its first list of areas in which bars would open, before revising the text twice. But of course, by this time, social media users had already proclaimed the (inaccurate) news and other local media including Mazarrón Hoy, had put out headlines informing that Mazarrón bars would be re-opening on Saturday.
When the press conference finally took place, it wasn´t revealed until nearly 9pm that there would only be bars opening in 10 municipalities this weekend and Mazarrón wouldn´t be amongst them.
The main reason for this is that the data used to assess which municipalities had the lowest rates was taken from the readings on Monday; NOT the latest figures produced yesterday.
Only terraces can be opened, with social distancing restrictions in place.
This Saturday the three municipalities in which hostelries are permitted to open to 100% of their terrace capacity are; Águilas, Ulea and Ojós.
The municipalities in which terraces may open to 75% capacity are; Abarán, Beniel, Cartagena, Lorquí, Santomera, Pliego and Molina de Segura.
The situation in each municipality will be assessed individually on a Monday and decisions made every week based on the accumulated incidence rate per 100,000 of population and a number of other factors.
Restaurants and bars will not open that same day, so Tuesday is the earliest day on which bars in Mazarrón could potentially re-open, providing the data on Monday is good.
Although Mazarrón is right down the list showing the accumulated incidence rate, ONE of the parameters by which the assessment will be made, Alhama de Murcia and Totana don´t stand a chance of being allowed to re-open next week as their figures are very high and they are both near to the top of the list.
This list changes rapidly depending on how many new cases are notified in each municipality, so it is not advisable to automatically presume that Mazarrón WILL definitely open on Tuesday, it all depends on what happens over the weekend, bearing in mind that the figures assessed on Monday morning will include four sets of data that have not yet been published (today Friday, Saturday, Sunday and the Monday data).
And the situation does change quickly, it only takes a few cases to move a municipality up the list again.
Bear in mind that the restrictions on moving between municipalities remain in place until December 9th, so “border hopping for a beer” is still a fineable offence IF you are caught.
However, there has been a big problem with lack of local police resources to monitor every single back road between municipalities, so although it would be very easy for residents of the Puerto de Mazarrón to drive along to La Azohía which is in Cartagena and where bars are permitted to open, or take the back road and go into the Águilas municipality whether they are able to do so depends entirely on the enthusiasm of the local police to mount checkpoints on the exit roads.
There are still more than 11,000 active cases of covid in the region at the moment, and there have been many comments made today on Spanish media that this re-opening of bars is a bad idea, as the average rate in this region is still more than ten times higher than it needs to be for the virus to be considered under control by the WHO and the longer we remain in this state of semi-restrictions, the longer it will take to clear the virus completely.
Most businesses that are being badly affected by the virus are NOT receiving any financial support from the government and prolongation of the pandemic will cost far more jobs in the long-run than trying to placate the hostelry sector and opening prematurely as well as costing more lives, but the sector has been very vocal in demanding the right to open, so it’s down to the public to decide if they feel there is any risk in going out for a drink or not.
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