10 more municipalities of Almería, forced to close bars and shops: there are already 44

As of Wednesday there will be mobility restrictions in a total of 62 municipalities. Non-essential businesses and hospitality will be closed in 44 towns.

On Monday, they reviewed the incidence rate accumulated in the last 14 days for each of the Almeria municipalities. It will be done in a new meeting of the Provincial Committee of Public Health Alert of the Junta de Andalucía in which the hardening of measures for several of the Almeria municipalities will be approved. And is that the epidemiological situation has worsened in many of them.

At this meeting, the green light will be given to the new restrictions in municipalities with rates higher than 500 and 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, values ​​set by the Junta de Andalucía to apply in a first case, the perimeter closure and, in the second, the closure of the hotel business and non-essential activity.

It will not be until next Wednesday when these new measures come into force, which have to be published in the Official Gazette of the Junta de Andalucía (BOJA).

Well, in total, in Almería as of January 27, and according to the update of the data from the Andalusian Institute of Statistics and Cartography, there will be mobility restrictions in a total of 62 municipalities, compared to 57 that it had been there since this Saturday (when the restrictions were updated again).

Four new municipalities in Almería will have the perimeter closure to exceed the incidence rate of 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. These are: Tíjola, Bentarique, Zurgena and Vícar.

All the municipalities in Almería with this restriction will be: Huércal de Almería, Huércal-Overa, Beires, Tíjola, Bentarique, Felix, Lucainena de las Torres, El Ejido, Cantoria, Canjáyar, Roquetas de Mar, Zurgena, Vícar, Bédar, Pulpí, Huécija , Líjar and Padules (although its incidence rate in these last four towns is currently below 500 cases).

On the other hand, in ten towns in Almeria, the closure of the hotel industry and non-essential activity will be decreed for exceeding 1,000 infections per 100,000 inhabitants. These are: Bacares, Laujar de Andarax, Armuña de Almanzora, Turre, the capital, Gérgal, Abla, Macael, Balanegra and Serón. All of them, except Bacares, have gone from the group of more than 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants to 1,000, which means going from having only the perimeter closure to also having the hotel industry and non-essential shops closed.

The case of Bacares draws attention because until now it did not belong to either of these two groups.

All the Almeria municipalities with the closure of the hotel and non-essential activity as of Wednesday will be: Cóbar, Antas, Fiñana, Carboneras, Urrácal, Albox, Mojácar, Vélez Blanco, Taberno, Bacares, Sorbas, Chirivel, Fines, Tabernas, Vélez Rubio, Pechina, Benahadux, Cuevas del Almanzora, Oria, Vera, Gádor, Almócita, Alhama de Almería, Olula, Rioja, Níjar, Adra, Purchena, Santa Cruz de Marchena, Garrucha, Laujar de Andarax, Viator, Armuña de Almanzora, Turre, Almería capital, Los Gallardos, Gérgal, Abla, Macael, María, Balanegra, Serón, Arboleas and Partaloa (although in these last two cases their rate is less than 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants).

Arboleas Active Covid-19 Cases as at 25th January 2021

New Cases - 9
Recoveries - 1
Active Cases = 55
Last Friday 47

Last week I was accused of posting too much doom & gloom. I believe the majority of people reading the posts on this site would rather know what is going on around us with Covid-19.

The following post is from Clare Shirley

The blackest week of the pandemic for Almería: 5,000 cases and 40 deaths

There are 325 people admitted to hospitals, 72 of them in the ICU

The figures are scary and speak for themselves. Almería is once again experiencing its worst week since the start of the pandemic, last March. Infections have skyrocketed, the number of deaths has been very high, and hospital pressure is growing day by day.

The last seven days have left the province with more than 5,000 positives for Covid-19, more than 40 deaths and more than 300 people hospitalized. Very worrying figures

In total, from last Monday to Sunday, Almería registered 5,090 new infections, compared to 3,992 the previous week (so far the worst of this health crisis).

There have been more cases, but also more deaths. In the past seven days, 41 people with coronavirus have lost their lives. The week before there were 18 deaths.

The situation in hospitals is more than complicated, as political and health representatives of the province have already recognized on several occasions. If the week began with 207 hospitalizations of which 53 were in the Intensive Care Unit, on Sunday the figures rose to 325 admissions of which 72 were in the ICU.

Seven days ago, on Sunday, January 17, there were 185 people hospitalized, of which 55 were in the Intensive Care Unit. In seven days, Almeria hospitals have had to deal with 140 more people admitted and 17 more patients in the ICU.

In the worst moments of the pandemic, Almería is trying hard to flatten the curve in this third wave that has hit the province hard.

A total of 57 Almeria municipalities currently have the perimeter closure of their territory, 34 of them also have their hotel and non-essential activity closed. This Monday afternoon, the Public Health Alert Committee will meet again to analyze the incidence rate of each of the towns in the province and, foreseeably, new restrictions will be added to several towns in Almería.