- Region
- Águilas
- Alhama de Murcia
- Jumilla
- Lorca
- Los Alcázares
- Mazarrón
- San Javier
-
ALL AREAS & TOWNS
- AREAS
- SOUTH WEST
- MAR MENOR
- MURCIA CITY & CENTRAL
- NORTH & NORTH WEST
- TOWNS
- Abanilla
- Abarán
- Aguilas
- Alamillo
- Alcantarilla
- Aledo
- Alhama de Murcia
- Archena
- Balsicas
- Blanca
- Bolnuevo
- Bullas
- Cañadas del Romero
- Cabo de Palos
- Calasparra
- Camping Bolnuevo
- Campo De Ricote
- Camposol
- Canada De La Lena
- Caravaca de la Cruz
- Cartagena
- Cehegin
- Ceuti
- Cieza
- Condado de Alhama
- Corvera
- Costa Cálida
- Cuevas De Almanzora
- Cuevas de Reyllo
- El Carmoli
- El Mojon
- El Molino (Puerto Lumbreras)
- El Pareton / Cantareros
- El Raso
- El Valle Golf Resort
- Fortuna
- Fuente Alamo
- Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort
- Hacienda Riquelme Golf Resort
- Isla Plana
- Islas Menores & Mar de Cristal
- Jumilla
- La Azohia
- La Charca
- La Manga Club
- La Manga del Mar Menor
- La Pinilla
- La Puebla
- La Torre
- La Torre Golf Resort
- La Unión
- Las Palas
- Las Ramblas
- Las Ramblas Golf
- Las Torres de Cotillas
- Leiva
- Librilla
- Lo Pagan
- Lo Santiago
- Lorca
- Lorquí
- Los Alcázares
- Los Balcones
- Los Belones
- Los Canovas
- Los Nietos
- Los Perez (Tallante)
- Los Urrutias
- Los Ventorrillos
- Mar De Cristal
- Mar Menor
- Mar Menor Golf Resort
- Mazarrón
- Mazarrón Country Club
- Molina de Segura
- Moratalla
- Mula
- Murcia City
- Murcia Property
- Pareton
- Peraleja Golf Resort
- Perin
- Pilar de la Horadada
- Pinar de Campoverde
- Pinoso
- Playa Honda
- Playa Honda / Playa Paraíso
- Pliego
- Portmán
- Pozo Estrecho
- Puerto de Mazarrón
- Puerto Lumbreras
- Puntas De Calnegre
- Region of Murcia
- Ricote
- Roda Golf Resort
- Roldan
- Roldan and Lo Ferro
- San Javier
- San Pedro del Pinatar
- Santiago de la Ribera
- Sierra Espuña
- Sucina
- Tallante
- Terrazas de la Torre Golf Resort
- Torre Pacheco
- Totana
- What's On Weekly Bulletin
- Yecla
- EDITIONS: Spanish News Today Alicante Today Andalucia Today
ARCHIVED - Bars and restaurants in 17 additional municipalities can open from Wednesday
Cartagena, Ricote, Beniel, Lorquí, Pliego, Santomera, Abarán, Águilas, Ulea and Ojós can now occupy terraces areas to 100%
As promised, the regional Covid Monitoring Committee met on Monday to analyse the latest coronavirus data published by the Ministry of Health, and to agree the municipalities in which bars and restaurants can open for the coming week.
Hostelry businesses in an additional 17 municipalities will be permitted to open their external terraces to 75% capacity in the following areas: Murcia City (this includes Corvera, Sucina, Gea y Truyols and other outlying districts of the municipality, Lorca, Ceutí, Librilla, Cieza, Calasparra, Mula, La Unión, Campos del Río, San Pedro del Pinatar, Fortuna, Alguazas, Mazarrón, Ricote,Las Torres de Cotillas, Abanilla, Albudeite, Villanueva del Río Segura and Bullas.
In each of these municipalities, the accumulated incidence rate is between 250 and 500 cases per 100,000 of the population throughout the last 14 days.
Cartagena, Beniel, Lorquí, Molina de Segura, Pliego, Santomera, Abarán, Águilas, Ulea and Ojós will be permitted to open their terraces to 100% of their occupation capacity as their accumulated incidence rates over 14 days are under 250.
This means 29 out of 45 municipalities may now re-open the terrace areas of thir hostlery businesses.
In all establishments, the minimum social distancing requirements for spacing between tables must be maintained and clients must wear masks at ALL TIMES, only removing them to sip a drink or take a mouthful of food.
No service inside the restaurant or at the bar is permitted.
Municipalities in which establishments must remain closed due to the higher levels of incidence are: Alcantarilla, Yecla, Jumilla, Moratalla, Caravaca de la Cruz, Cehegín, Alhama de Murcia, Aledo, Totana, Fuente Álamo, Torre Pacheco, San Javier , Blanca, Archena, Puerto Lumbreras and Los Alcázares.
Remember; the restrictions for travelling between municipalities remain in place until the 9th December, so it's important to remain in the same municipality in which you actually live.
Without wishing to be a party pooper……
This weekend health professionals have expressed their opposition to this decision by the regional government, warning that rates have gone down in the last two weeks specifically BECAUSE bars and restaurants have been closed and stating that in their opinion it is too early to be re-opening hostelry premises.
One expert gave a simple example; a man who is asymptomatic and doesn´t know he is contagious goes to the washroom, removes his mask to blow his nose and doesn´t wash his hands before leaving.
He touches the cubicle door and handle, touches the paper dispenser, touches the door handle of the washroom and door on his way out. He now has the covid virus on his hands, he touches the back of his chair to sit down, he touches the bread bowl, the olive oil bottle, shares his phone around the table to look at a picture……his friends are now eating bread from the same basket, putting it in their mouths….. Another man goes into the washroom. He washes has hands before exiting, so thinks he has done everything necessary to avoid catching the virus, but touches the door handle on his way out and repeats the above pattern…….It only takes a second of inattention and no matter how stringently the bar is sanitising tables, chairs, cleaning the toilets etc, it is very easy to not clean the back of the door, or touch something before it has been cleaned, so extreme care should be exercised the experts say.
The rate of contagions this last week has nearly halved the number of cases reported the previous week and the number of active cases fallen to “only” 8,860 spread across 43 of the 45 municipalities, so there are still a considerable number of people out there who don´t know they are positive and contagious, so bear that in mind when enjoying the welcome of the bars and remember, if cases go back up, then the municipality will again be ordered to close its bars.