Coronavirus breakdown on Mallorca: infection numbers significantly higher than expected

A computer error ensured that only a fraction of the actual coronavirus infections could be recorded.

Last week Mallorca imposed a quarantine on socially disadvantaged areas in the Balearic capital, Palma.

The residents are only allowed to leave the neighborhood in emergencies. 

• An IT breakdown ensured that Mallorca and the Balearic Islands only documented a fraction of their new coronavirus infections.

• Mallorca imposes a strict quarantine on the socially disadvantaged areas of Son Gotleu, Can Capes, La Soledad and Son Canals.

• The island government on Mallorca takes action against violators of the Corona regulations.

  Up to 3,000 euros are due for meetings with more than ten people, 100 for smoking without a safe distance.

• Germany, Austria and Switzerland are currently warning against traveling to Mallorca.

Palma- Is the autumn

in

about to end?

A hard blow shakes the island: a computer

detected

at the weekend

, which ensured that the

recorded

very few

in the last few days

.

It was hoped that

,

and

soon

withdraw

their

for the holidaymakers' favorite island.

With reference to the information from Eugenia Carandell, director of the Balearic

, the weekly newspaper "Mallorca-Zeitung" reported that Mallorca last actually

experienced

120 to 170

per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days. Germany declares areas from an average 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days to risk areas.

This information is extremely worrying, as Mallorca is

worse off than other regions in

when it

.

and

, for example, are between 55 and 60 infections per 100,000 inhabitants - provided that the figures reported by the authorities are correct in these cases.

A value of 113 was most recently given for all of Spain.

Coronavirus Mallorca: working-class neighborhood in Palma in quarantine

Update September 10th:

The

Government has

imposed a

on the socially disadvantaged neighborhoods of Gotleu, Can Capes, La Soledad and Son Canals in

.

The residents are only allowed to leave their neighborhood to go to work, to see a doctor's appointment, to do urgent shopping or to look after relatives.

The reason for the strict measure is the

in these areas.

The measure affects a total of more than 20,000 people and is initially limited to 15 days.

Coronavirus Mallorca: 100 euros fine for smokers, 3,000 euros for group meetings

Update August 31:

The

on

taking action against locals and

who

do not follow

the protective measures against the

virus.

All of Spain has introduced new regulations * aimed at stopping the spread.

In the past few days, the

situation

in the Balearic Islands has recovered significantly, but the government in

threatened

harsh

: 100 euros are due for smoking without a safe distance and even 3,000 for meetings in large groups of over ten people.

Here is an overview of all the corona rules on Mallorca:

• Smoking outside 

  is prohibited if the minimum distance of two meters to other people is not guaranteed.

  This not only applies to cigarettes and cigars, but also to water pipes or e-cigarettes, for example.

• Discos

  , dance halls, karaoke bars and pubs with and without live music will be closed with immediate effect.

• In restaurants,

   bars, beach bars and on their respective terraces, there must be one and a half meters of space between the tables.

  A maximum of ten people can sit at one table.

• Bars and restaurants

   must close by 1 a.m. at the latest.

  Food and drinks from the pubs may not be consumed outside the terraces.

• Groups are also

  not allowed 

   to stand together on the street or in public spaces and drink (alcoholic) drinks.

• Private meetings

   and celebrations must be limited to a maximum of ten people.

• Events

   with more than 400 people must be approved in advance by the health department.

• In 

  retirement homes

   and similar facilities, all new residents are tested for the coronavirus in advance using a PCR test.

  Residents may only receive visits from one person, for a maximum of one hour a day.

Coronavirus Mallorca: 144 hotels close due to travel warnings

Update August 28: Majorca

the Association FEHM indicate that this week - had to close already 144 hotels because because of the - actually still in the middle of the season

not enough

to the

come.

This is mainly due to the German government's travel warning.

250 other facilities have announced that they will also close their doors in the course of the first weeks of September, as the occupancy cannot be foreseen due to travel restrictions.

It looks just as difficult for the tourism sector on the Costa del Sol *.

Coronavirus Mallorca: will tourists soon be able to return to the Balearic Islands?

Update 26 August:

The German

is considering soon

to

for

to allow.

For the first time in weeks, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants fell to 32 within seven days, well below the critical mark of 50 set by the Federal Foreign Office for a

.

At the same time, the island had to revise its cases upwards by 1,000 from the beginning of the month.

One patient succumbed to the consequences of

at the weekend

.

Coronavirus: German doctor died in Mallorca

Update, August 20:

Mallorca mourns the loss of the German private doctor Dr.

Bernd Kablitz.

As merkur.de * reports, the doctor practicing on his favorite island had no previous illnesses and did a lot of sports *.

His colleagues from the Medical Association report that he had been tested for the coronavirus with mild symptoms and then suddenly suffered from more severe symptoms.

The surgeon and digestive disease specialist leaves behind a wife and two children.

El Col·legi Oficial de Metges lamenta profundamente el fallecimiento del primer médico en ejercicio en Balears a causa de la covid-19.

El Dr.

Bernd Kablitz, de 59 años, ha fallecido hoy en su domicilio solo unos días después de contraer la enfermedad |

https://t.co/vmPF0BNfrJ pic.twitter.com/sAR7rjWP1S

- Comib (@COMbalears) August 18, 2020

Coronavirus Mallorca: Austria issues travel warning, Swiss have to be in quarantine

Update, August 19:

has its

on

and the other Balearic Islands

expanded.

Mainland Spain has been on the list of

risk areas

since August 10

.

The

for

and the rest of the Balearic Islands applies from Monday, August 24th.

Anyone who then

travels

back to

from one of the three islands

must be

tested

for

.

The

continues

from Thursday, 20 August on the

list.

From then on,

travelers returning from the

have to be quarantined at home for ten days.

Unlike in Germany or Austria, a negative

does not

the quarantine requirement.

Coronavirus Mallorca: travel warning for Austrians too?

Update August 18th:

According to press reports,

now also advising Germany

on a

for

.

In contrast to

Spain, the island

has not yet been declared a

area.

The

is worried about

developments in the Balearic Islands

.

sending more and more

to hospitals and intensive care units (UCI), even if the number of active Covid-19 cases has fallen slightly since the weekend.

It currently amounts to 1,467 infected people (42 fewer than at the weekend), 133 of them in the

, 21 in the intensive care unit.

Coronavirus: Travel warning for Mallorca - emergency return flights for 40,000 German tourists

Update August 17th:

The

on

has decided to take stricter measures against the

.

Meetings with families or friends, whether tourists or locals, are now limited to ten people and the

must close at 1 a.m. at the latest.

Many

, however, who are flown back home by their package tour

operators

, complain that they would rather complete their

in Mallorca

and then possibly get tested in Spain * before their return flight, as costanachrichten.com * reports.

Even Germany's Minister of Health Jens Spahn admits to tourists to continue their vacation in the corona risk area Mallorca "with caution" after all.

Coronavirus travel warning for Mallorca: quarantine and tests

Update August 15:

After the

a

, tour operators operating on the island are offering spontaneously organized

for over 40,000 German

.

The island government in turn demands that

continue to operate the islands like other countries as so-called "safe corridors". But since the

also

exceed the limits set

by the

, this will probably only happen as soon as the infections

lose weight

even on the favorite island of the

.

Update August 14:

The

in

are continuing to develop into negative territory, Germany has issued a travel warning for Mallorca *, as reported by wa.de *.

The travel warning includes numerous rules such as mandatory testing and quarantine * for tourists returning from Mallorca.

In addition to Mallorca and the other

, the Robert Koch Institute and the Federal Foreign Office have also declared the other Balearic Islands and mainland Spain to be

areas.

Update August 12:

The

have to

drastically correct

the number of their active

upwards.

228 people are currently ill, 100 more than after the last survey.

As the largest island,

the most infections with the

.

Tourists have also been

infected

with the

virus, some of them are in

.

The island administration reports that the increase also has to do with people who have resisted the quarantine and then infected others.

No coronavirus quarantine for Mallorca tourists: Austria and Switzerland tighten rules only for the mainland

Update August 10:

paid

90,000 euros to a

on the island

to safely

who tested positive for the

or who had contact with a

.

There are currently

in Corona hotel quarantine and

on Mallorca

.

Update August 6th:

Austria orders a

for tourists from Spain.

The

and Canary Islands are explicitly excluded.

Update August 5:

Switzerland is quarantining tourists arriving from Spain.

The reason for this is the increase in the number of infections.

and the Canary Islands are spared the obligation for the time being.

Update August 3rd: Mallorca

looks back on its weakest

year in a long time.

“We have hardly any reservations for the next three weeks.

Currently, our greatest concern is the staff, which we can hardly keep with the current turnover, ”explains the chairman of the Mallorcan hotelier association ACH, Gabriel Llobera.

The general quarantine obligation for the

and the increasingly strict rules for Germans, Swiss and Austrians cause uncertainty among tourists as to whether they can

really start

their

.

Corona virus on Mallorca's beaches: Tourist falls ill in the beach hotel

Update July 31: Mallorca

detects a new

in a

near the small town of

.

Nine people are in

after a

tested positive for the

.

Update July 29:

The

in

are rising rapidly.

From Friday to Monday alone, 33 people on the

tested positive for

, reports the Balearic

.

So more than 150 people are sick.

Coronavirus Mallorca: Foci of infection in tourist settlements

Update July 28th:

The

has announced that there is a new

with ten

in

.

All those who tested positive were in the same apartment, six of them showed no symptoms.

The neighborhood is closely monitored.

Coronavirus Mallorca: The British government orders Spain tourists to quarantine for fourteen days

Update July 27:

The

announces that it will order a two-week coronavirus quarantine * for those returning from Spain.

That hits the already ailing tourism hard in the 2020 season.

Many

welcome restrictions on

and demonstrate against holidaymakers who come to the island despite everything.

Update July 20: Mallorca

is considering a

for travelers from the party zones who have already recorded

cases.

However, nothing has yet been applied for, the island government reassures worried

.

Because at the moment it is still difficult

to define

exact

risk zones.

If the positive tests for the

increase, the Germans' favorite

will consider such a measure, say representatives.

However, fewer new infections are currently being recorded, probably also due to the closure of the bars and discos in the party hotspots Magaluf and

.

More and more regions in Spain are reacting to the increasing number of infections with tightened measures *.

Update July 16:

After many

, especially German and English, the

for protection against the

have broken, the saw

forced to close the big party miles Ballermann and Magaluf in Majorca largely * reported costanachrichten.com *.

When the restaurants, bars and clubs open again has not been announced.

The archipelago currently reports over

.

Those affected are in quarantine and their environment is being tested for the Sars-CoV-2.

Mallorca: Ballermann closed after disregarding the Corona rules

First report from July 10, 2020:

Palma de Mallorca -

tourism, at the favorite destination of

, is in danger or at least drastically

.

On Thursday (July 9th) the Parliament of the

decided

to offer

a maximum of 430,000 beds for

from now on

.

Tourists and

are horrified to see that the capacities of hotels and holiday apartments will be reduced by over 20 percent in the coming years.

And that, although the enthusiasm of Germans and other vacationers from all over the world for

in the past few summers knew no bounds.

Mallorca was the undisputed holiday leader: last year alone, the “17th

State ”in the Spanish Mediterranean 16 million

from abroad and that with a population of just under a million.

The project also has the

to do as many islanders fear in the Balearics that

in the international holiday airlines in the summer of

is entering with.

Mallorca limits tourists in the Corona year 2020: when new rules come into force

Mallorca's

stated goal is

to reduce

the number of beds for

long term.

But Mallorca lovers don't have to worry too much at the moment: licenses for

and

that are

already running

will not be canceled, accommodation that has already been booked for

and beyond will

still be available

when the

begins.

The fear of the

to the

does not change that.

The reduction in the number of rooms and apartments will happen bit by bit, because

on the

have to fill in a key when applying for a new license or when renewing their contracts, so that neither the total number of tourists on the Spanish island nor individual ones get out of hand Places collapse under a great burden.

A total of 120,000 are to be dismantled through this process over the next few years, which corresponds to over

on the island. 

Mallorca restricts tourists in the Corona year 2020: New distribution across the island

Mallorca

would like to distribute its

better over the

.

That is why new licenses for rentals or

now issued according to how much tourist infrastructure is already in the affected location.

In the

particular

, it is extremely important that large gatherings are avoided, according to those responsible.

There is a complete ban on the expansion of

in the following places: 

• Platja de Palma

  : The popular city beach of Palma de Mallorca is no longer allowed to receive new tourists. 

• S'Arenal

  : No new accommodations can be built around the Ballermann.

• Peguera

  : In the favorite place of active tourists in the southwest of the island, things will be quieter in the future. 

• Santa Ponça

  : The bay not far from the island's capital Palma is not allowed to take in more tourists. 

• Palmanova and Magaluf

  : The sangria will flow less at the English party venues in the future.

• Small beach resorts: The completely overcrowded beach resorts of

  Cala Bona

  ,

  Cala Millor

  ,

  Sa Coma

  ,

  S'Illot

  and

  Cales de Mallorca

  , which were once considered an insider tip in Spain a few decades ago, will now accept fewer holidaymakers.  

Mallorca restricts tourists in the Corona year 2020: apartments under attack

Balearic Islands: From Monday even stricter mask requirement https://t.co/GfOsLGoWkL #Coronavirus #Maskenpflicht

- tagesschau (@tagesschau) July 9, 2020

Mallorca is particularly bad for private individuals.

or rooms in

for the summer months to

is now prohibited.

It is precisely this rental

that represents a vital source of income

for many

, especially in the expensive

, which have

adapted

much more than the mainland to the price level of the

countries of origin

such as

or

.

At the same time, these rentals, which are made via the

platform, for example, make it

almost impossible for locals to find an apartment that they can rent permanently.

This led the capital

to ban the portal for the urban area in 2018.

However, many residents have already had to apply for social assistance because they are

facing economic ruin

due to the

tourism season

, which was

canceled by

.

But the professional Mallorcan

are not equally taken into prayer: The

country air is getting thinner,

especially for

famous “

” country houses.

Only very few of them are allowed to build

and in order

to rent

the idyllic old

in the actually empty inland of the

, the owner has to prove that he is also

.

In addition, the beds in

in Mallorca will be reduced to 115,000, the rest of the 430,000 remaining will be in

- even though the law is supposed to be an attempt

to limit

.

Disgruntled

suspect that the hotel lobby is a major contributor to the new law.

A well-known name who is campaigning for the plan is, for example, Carmen Riu, who takes in tens of thousands of tourists annually with her chain of luxury hotels across Spain.

Holiday apartments, which usually accommodate far fewer vacationers in far more space, would make a significantly greater contribution to reducing mass tourism.

These are also

useful

in times of the

risk, as, for example, accumulations at pools or buffets, which

make

hotels more

unsafe

in

than in previous years, are

eliminated

.

+

Mallorca restricts tourists in the Corona year 2020: The island's capital Palma should also be quieter.

© Andreas Drouve / dpa

Mallorca restricts tourists in the Corona year 2020: fear of new infections with Sars-Cov-2

Mallorca

did not

decide to

tighten the law in

for nothing

.

,

and

discussing the future of

on the Spanish

for many years

.

An important trigger is probably the

.

Although the

were affected significantly weaker than the rest of

, have the residents scared that with the mass tourism - including very strongly on

affected areas such as Madrid, Catalonia and England - the

with arrives.

Together with Catalonia, the holiday island has therefore also tightened the mask requirement *.

A

must be

worn

whenever a

or local is in public

.

Exceptions are

, if the safety distance of 1.5 meters is observed, and individual restaurants that have their tables far enough apart and allow their guests to take off their

.

Anyone who violates the mask requirement must expect a fine.

In addition, a health survey * will be carried out upon arrival at Palma Airport. 

+

Mallorca restricts tourists in the Corona year 2020: locals write posters against holidaymakers.

© Andreas Drouve / dpa

Mallorca restricts tourists in the Corona year 2020: What vacationers have to pay attention to

Mallorca’s

new regulation and

hygiene measures in summer

mainly affect the

industry.

But

should

also

a few rules: 

• Vacation rentals

  in

  Mallorca

  should be

  booked

  through a professional

  tour operator

  instead of private portals such as Airbnb. 

• Hotel bookings

  in Mallorca for dates that are far in the future are not advisable. 

• Until further notice,

  a

  mask

  must always be

  worn

  on Mallorca in

  2020

  to protect against the

  corona virus

  .

  Otherwise, the same rules apply to holidaymakers on the island as in all of Spain *.

The Spanish island may have taken the well-known Ballermann hit as an occasion and thought: "Fuck it, Malle is only once a year".

Locals and

will

certainly notice

the change in the law

in

in

.

to mention

the consequences of the

.

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