From. Ayuntamiento de Arboleas.

Juani Martinez 

Juan Cristóbal García Molina 

Dear neighbours, this year due to the current situation and the recommendations of the Junta de Andalucía due to Covid-19, the parade of the 3 wise men will not be held.  However, as we do not want any boy or girl to be left without their gift after having behaved well all year, all those royal pages who want their majesties to take the gift to the children's homes.

To arrange this please email your childs name, address and your phone number to :- Juani Martinez  or Juan Cristóbal García Molina  . if you wish your child to have a present delivered by the Three Kings. The presents can be taken to the Ayuntamiento today, tomorrow or Wednesday Morning. Make sure they are clearly marked.

On the afternoon of the 5th, Their Majesties will go house to house distributing them.

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From. Informacion Covid19 Almeria.

The Public Health Commission unanimously agrees to modify the isolation period for people with positive notification of Diagnostic Tests for Active Covid-19 Infection.

 They will have to do an isolation of 7 days compared to the current 10 days.

 Contacts that require quarantine (that is, those unvaccinated people who are close contact of a positive) also reduce their quarantine period to 7 days.

 It will go into effect tomorrow for cases diagnosed as of tomorrow

From. N332.

Spain extends ban on Non-Essential travel from third countries for another month

The Spanish government has decided to extend the entry ban against the majority of ‘third countries’ in the face of the current Covid 19 situation and the spread of the Omicron variant. 

According to an official statement made by the Ministry of Health, the entry ban imposed against those who wish to enter the Spanish territory for non-essential purposes will remain in place until the end of January 2022. The non-essential travel ban also applies to all travellers from the UK .

This means that travellers from the majority of third countries (non EU/Schengen Area) who are unable to present a valid vaccination certificate will be denied entry when reaching Spain for travel purposes.

Those who can present a vaccination certificate that proves that the holder has been fully immunised against the virus with one of the approved doses can enter Spain for travel purposes without being required to provide proof of an essential reason for their trip.

Despite the fact that Spain continues to maintain tight restrictions for all those arriving from non-EU/Schengen Area countries to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant, several third countries are not affected by the temporary entry restrictions as they have been reporting low infection rates.

Spain’s list of epidemiologically safe third countries currently includes Argentina, Australia, Bahrein, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Kuwait, New Zealand, Peru, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, China (including Hong Kong, and Macao).

Entry from the above countries is allowed but travellers must still fill in a Health Control Form. 

 “Whichever country you are arriving from, all passengers arriving in Spain by air or sea (ferry), including passengers making flight transfers and children under 12, must fill in a health control form before they start their journey,” the statement of Spain’s official tourism website, Travel Safe, reads.

Meanwhile, France announced that unless UK travellers hold French residency, British citizens can not transit through France by road to reach their country of residence in the EU. This means that if a British citizen owns a house in Spain, they currently cannot drive through France from the UK to get here.