Galicia reopens the hotel industry and allows meetings between non-cohabitants

Feijóo meets by videoconference with the clinical committee of health experts Illustrated Service (Automatic) / Europa Press

Galicia begins its second de-escalation.

For this, the advisory committee has approved a system of restrictions by levels, linked to the epidemiological situation of each municipality.

The plan includes four levels of limitations and implies the reopening of the hotel industry, closed since November 4, in all areas, as explained this Wednesday by the president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

In addition, it has reported that it will ask the Government to close the border with Portugal during the Constitution Bridge.

Feijóo has transferred that the measures for Christmas will not be fixed at the moment although he has already advanced that his intention is to limit the meetings based on family units, instead of the number of people and will not count children in the count.

In any case, the committee will not rule on all the measures until it knows the epidemiological situation, which may change in the coming weeks.

All the measures provided for in the four levels of limitations will take effect from 00:00 on Friday, so that the areas that improve their situation until that day may relax the limitations.

The classification criteria of the municipalities will be linked, among other aspects, to the number of inhabitants and the accumulated incidence.

In all cases, the business will have a capacity of 50% inside and the curfew will remain at 23.00.

The president of the Xunta has insisted that the situation in Galicia is better than that of the rest of Spain.

The community has 7,537 active cases of coronavirus and a hospital occupancy of 5.3% in the ward and 8.7% in ICU beds.

The Galician Health Service has reported 10 new deaths this Tuesday, which means that autonomy reaches 1,221 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

These are the four levels applied in Galicia:

Maximum level

: It will be imposed in cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants that present an incidence greater than 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days.

The hotel business will open with a maximum capacity of 50% in terraces, until 5:00 p.m. and for four people who do not live together.

Pontevedra, and its neighbors Poio and Marín, O Grove and Sanxenxo would enter this level of restrictions and will be closed on the perimeter.

Medium-high level: It will

affect cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants that have an incidence of between 150 and 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

Capacity of 30% in the interior and 50% in the exterior in the hotel industry, until 5:00 p.m., and for a maximum of four people who do not live together.

At this level, the city of Ferrol and the municipalities of its region (Narón, Fene and Neda) will enter;

Vigo and Lugo, with perimeter closures.

Low medium level:

These restrictions will be imposed in cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants that have an incidence of between 100 and 150 cases;

and in the smallest municipalities that have an incidence of between 350 and 250 infections per 100,000 inhabitants.

The hospitality industry will have a capacity of 40% indoors, 50% on terraces and may open until 11pm for six people who are not living together.

The city of A Coruña and the neighboring industrial town of Arteixo will be at this level, which also implies perimeter closures.

Basic level of restrictions:

It will be implemented in cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants with an incidence below 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants;

and in the smallest municipalities that accumulate less than 250 infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days.

The hotel business will open with a 50% capacity indoors and 75% on terraces, until 11pm and for a maximum of six people.

Santiago, Ourense and its almonds, enter this level.

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