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More than 300,000 children basques will be able to exit to the street from the Sunday | Radio Bilbao

The start of the desescalada in the framework of the crisis by the pandemic coronavirus allows starting this Sunday, children under the age of 14 years are able to go to the street for an hour, a measure that will affect a group in the Basque country represents 13.8 % of the basque population and amounts to 301.816 children.

As reported by the Eustat, the demographic data at 1 January 2019 show that Álava is the province where percentage-wise, more residents of these ages, because 14.9% of the alaveses has less than 14 years, which represents a total of 48.751.

Bizkaia has 149.922, 13.1 % of the population in that territory, and in Gipuzkoa, with 103.143 minorthe percentage is 14.4 %.

With regard to the capitals, Vitoria has 36.391 inhabitants between 0 and 14 years, which represents 14.8% of its population; Bilbao has 40.749, which represents 11.9 %, and in San Sebastian is 22.418 children of these ages, 12.3% of the total.

In Vitoria there are three neighborhoods where more than a quarter of its population is between 0 and 14 years: Zabalgana, with 26.9 % and 7.061 minor, Aretxabaleta-Gardelegi with 26.1 %, but only 382 children of those ages and Salburua where there is 4.366 children up to 14 years, accounting for 25.3 %.

In Bilbao, highlights the concentration of children of this age in Miribilla, with a 25.6 per cent when in the whole of the municipality the percentage is 11.9 %. On the opposite end is the neighborhood of Chestnut with an increase of 9.4 %.

In the case of San Sebastián, the configuration of neighborhoods is more balanced and ranges between 10% of the center and the 16 % that has Aiete.

Of the 51 municipalities of Araba, only 18 have a percentage of children from 0 to 14 years higher than in the territory. Highlights Oyon with 20.8 %, the one that follows Joy with 20.5 per cent, Salvatierra and Iruña de Oca both with 18.8 per cent.

There are three municipalities in Alava with more than 10,000 inhabitants, Amurrio, Llodio and Vitoria, and only the first has a higher percentage of the territory, 15.4 per cent.

Vizcaya is composed by 112 municipalities and 79 of them have a percentage of children from 0 to 14 years greater than or equal to that of the territory, but except for Etxebarri, which has the highest percentage (20.1 per cent), the others that exceed the 17 % are small.

In this province highlights the fact that three municipalities of the left bank include neighborhoods with lower percentages of child population, below the 9 %: Portugalete, Santurtzi and Sestao.

Of the 88 municipalities of Gipuzkoa, 71 have a percentage of children from 0 to 14 years equal to or higher than the whole of the territory, but, among the municipalities with a lower percentage, is San Sebastíán, Irun, Errenteria and Eibar, which, together, represent 60% of the total population of the territory.

In the BOE

The Official State Bulletin (BOE) has published this Saturday, the order by which the Ministry of Health authorizes persons under the age of fourteen years are able to go from tomorrow an hour a day to the street, between the 9.00 and 21.00, to a maximum of 1 kilometre from their homes.

They can’t do it, says the order, those who show symptoms or are in home isolation for diagnosis of coronavirus, or who are in quarantine to have had contact with someone diagnosed or with symptoms.

In the walk, which according to said vice president of Social Rights, Pablo Iglesias, children to be able to run, jump, and carry their own toys, the adult may go with a maximum of three minor children that live with him.

In addition, you should keep a distance interpersonal with other adults and children of at least two metres and comply with the measures of prevention and hygiene, in front of the coronavirus, as indicated by the health authorities.

“It may circulate in any pathway or space for public use, including natural spaces and green areas are permitted”, but no access to “recreational spaces, children’s outdoor, as well as sports facilities”.

The order emphasizes that “the responsibility of the accompanying adult” to ensure that during the walk you meet the requirements to prevent possible infection.

When the adult accompanying the minor is not none of the parents, guardians, carers or guardians or legal fact will have to have an express authorization of these.

The autonomous communities, respecting what included in the order, may, in the exercise of their powers in the field of protection and guardianship of minors, to adopt measures necessary to adapt the application of the order, in relation to that resident in centres of protection, support people with disabilities or other residential services of a similar nature.

The objective of the order, as stated by the Government, is to alleviate the medium to which they have been subject to the children and the possible negative consequences that the situation of the alarm condition brings.

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