Employees of the same ‘bubble’ group will be able to share a table in the work cafeteria

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, 9 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Department of Health allows, as of this Monday, that employees who consider themselves a “bubble” group of stable coexistence within the work environment share a table in the cafeteria or catering establishments of workplaces, also in hospitals and health centers.

Yes, eThe capacity of the premises will still be limited to 50 percent of its capacity and consumption indoors can only be done sitting down. In addition, the tables or groups of tables, between which the safety distance must be observed, will have a maximum of six people.

This is included in an order published this Monday by the Department of Health, collected by Europa Press, in which a paragraph of the order issued last week is modified to close the hotel business and other non-essential activities until next December 4 in a total of 60 municipalities.

According to this regulation, in force since Saturday, those work center catering establishments could open to serve employees, but those They could only share a table if they were living together The same was established for the relatives of the patients who used the cafeterias of hospitals and health centers.

However, the order published this Monday by Sanidade, which has now come into effect, allows the parties to sit together “Working people who form a stable coexistence group in the center of the workplace.”

In the explanatory statement, the Department justifies the extension of this measure because it takes into account “the relationship in the work environment” between the employees, which determines that “they can be considered for these purposes as a ‘bubble'”.

60 closed municipalities

This restriction, which is now being clarified, refers to the 60 municipalities in which the hotel industry had to close since Saturday and which, in addition, remain closed on the perimeter. Specifically, they are A Coruña, along with Arteixo, Culleredo, Cambre and Oleiros; the city council of Lugo alone; Santiago with Ames, Boqueixón, Oroso, O Pino, Teo, Trazo, Val do Dubra and Vedra; Ferrol, with Ares, Fene, Neda, Narón and Mugardos; Ourense, with Amoeiro, Barbadás, Coles, O Pereiro de Aguiar, San Cibrao and Toén; Pontevedra, with Vilaboa, Ponte Caldelas, Poio, Marín, Barro, Campo Lameiro, Cerdedo-Cotobade and Soutomaior; and Vigo with Mos, Nigrán, Gondomar, O Porriño and Redondela.

The municipalities of Vimianzo, Monforte, Burela, Viveiro, O Carballiño, Verín, Xinzo, Cangas do Morrazo, A Estrada, Lalín, Silleda, Ponteareas, Tui, Cambados, O Grove, Vilanova de Arousa and Vilagarcía de Arousa also have these limitations.