New restrictions in Andalusia: the Committee of Experts decides the measures.
Juanma Moreno will preside over the meeting after knowing the New Year's Eve data.
The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, will preside this Monday, January 3 in Malaga, a meeting of the Regional Committee for High Impact on Public Health, better known as the committee of experts, to decide whether to adopt new measures in the face of the increase in infections of Covid-19 coronavirus with the advancement of the sixth wave and the expansion of the Omicron variant, which has led the community to register the highest daily numbers of infections and incidence rate of the entire pandemic.
Specifically, Andalusia registered on Friday, December 31, the latest data released by the Ministry of Health, 15,471 new infections in 24 hours and increased its incidence rate to 14 days by 119.5 points to 1,213.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, 541.7 points more in just one week.
For its part, the number of hospitalized until last Friday stood at 1,108, 182 of them admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The Minister of Health and Families, Jesús Aguirre, already advanced in early December that if the thousand hospitalized by Covid were exceeded, as has happened during the last week, restrictions should be adopted.
No curfews
Moreno himself advanced last Monday, December 27, that this increase in infections would force "to make some decisions" in accordance with the committee of experts, although he made it clear that "restrictions such as those of the Generalitat of Catalonia are not on the table, nor curfew or measures as harsh as in other autonomous communities "because the Andalusian government's desire is that they" affect economic and productive activity as little as possible. "
The head of the Andalusian Executive defended then that, although the level of incidence is "very high" and reaches unknown values in the entire pandemic, the community has one of the lowest rates in 14 days in all of Spain and stressed that vaccination has allowed translates into a "much lower clinical incidence" than previous waves, since it came to admit that if these data had been given during "the third wave, we would speak of hundreds of deaths".
The Board met for the last time its committee of experts on December 9, when it decided to expand the possibility of requiring the Covid certificate of vaccination, recovery or negative test (PCR in 72 hours or antigen test in 48 hours carried out by authorized center) for those people who access hotel and nightlife establishments, a measure already in force until January 15 after being ratified by the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA).
Five provinces at level 1
At that meeting, the committee of experts also decided to eliminate the capacity and schedule restrictions provided for at risk levels 1 and 2. Since last Wednesday, the Covid alert level 2 is in force in all the health districts of three provinces, Córdoba, Seville and Malaga, while those of the five remaining provinces, Almería, Cádiz, Granada, Huelva and Jaén, are at alert level 1, although this does not imply limits on capacity and hours in shops, hotels, nightlife and other activities.
The last meeting of the expert committee has already advanced a series of recommendations for the Christmas events and referred specifically to the Kings Parades to suggest that they be carried out in large spaces, increasing the route if necessary, to avoid the crowding of people. .
In the same way, he proposed to increase the frequency of public transport that goes to the areas with the highest concentration of people and to maintain the use of the mask in these public spaces and during the course of these Christmas events, even if they are outdoors.
The meeting of the committee of experts chaired by Moreno will take place at 11:30 am at the Government Delegation of the Junta de Andalucía in Malaga and at the end of the meeting, the counselor Jesús Aguirre will attend to the media to report on the agreements adopted.
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