Covid measures after the state of alert

End of the state of alarm: these are the restrictions in the Autonomous Regions of Valencia, Murcia and Andalusia after 9 May.

All the territories have already announced their measures following the end of the state of alarm that came into force on 9 November and ended in the early hours of Sunday morning.

This Monday is the first working day without a state of alarm since six months ago when the central government approved it in order to have the necessary legal umbrella to impose restrictions such as curfews or perimeter confinements and to be able to control the transmission of the virus.

In the early hours of Saturday morning the alarm ended and chaos took over the country’s main cities with parties, drinking and mass gatherings.

The communities now reiterate that the measures available to them are “insufficient”, leaving them in a “weakened” position in the fight against the coronavirus.

While waiting for the high courts of each territory to rule on the restrictions that affect the fundamental rights of citizens, the PP has today expressed its willingness to talk to the Government to change the law and give legal certainty to the territories, but has offered the proposal that the party registered a month ago in Congress.

According to García Egea, this initiative can be debated now and “in 15 days this chaos will be over”. Meanwhile, the government delegate in Madrid, Mercedes González, has asked Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s government to take “courageous” measures, such as a curfew, to prevent parties and mass gatherings.

Valencian Community

The Generalitat has managed to get the High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV) to endorse the new measures against covid-19, specifically, setting a curfew between 00:00 and 06:00 hours; a maximum of 10 people in social gatherings in public and private spaces, and limiting the capacity to 75% in places of worship.

In addition, the Valencian president, Ximo Puig, has already stated that he is considering lifting the perimeter closure.

Regarding the opening hours of the hospitality industry, the premises will be able to open their terraces until 23:30, with a maximum of 10 people per table.

The permitted capacity on terraces will be 100% and 50% indoors. Gatherings, unless they are cohabiting, will be of a maximum of 10 people and no more than two cohabiting groups.

Murcia

The President of the Region of Murcia, López Miras, has announced that he has finally opted to lift the perimeter closure and the curfew will not continue as before, but will be replaced by a limitation of non-essential activity from midnight until 06:00 hours.

Social and family gatherings will be limited to six people, both in public and enclosed spaces, while only six diners will be allowed in bars and restaurants, with no distinction between terraces and indoors. In addition, function rooms may hold up to 50 people indoors and 100 outdoors.

Andalusia

The Andalusian government has decided that the autonomous community will no longer have a curfew and will allow the opening of the hotel and catering sector until 00:00 hours and the reopening, after more than a year of closure, of nightlife, such as pubs and discotheques, until 2:00 hours.
Andalusia will no longer be closed perimetrically when the state of alarm is lifted, while the maximum number of people who can be gathered in homes will no longer be limited.

The general premises as of this Sunday are the end of the curfew, the lifting of the perimeter closure of the autonomous community and the absence of any limit on the maximum number of people who can gather in homes.

The president of the community, Juanma Moreno, has indicated that his government will decide, for which judicial ratification will be requested, the closure of municipalities with a 14-day accumulated incidence of more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and will prohibit all non-essential commercial activity in them.

This will be the guideline for municipalities with more than 5,000 inhabitants, while in the case of those with less than 5,000 inhabitants, each case will be analysed on a case-by-case basis.