The Valencia City Council will limit the capacity of the beaches once they are reopened to guarantee safety and avoid contagion due to coronaviruses. The Local Government Board will approve this Friday the hiring a group of people to inform all users of the new security measures. In addition, the vigilance of the Local Police will be reinforced in the accesses and in the interior of the beaches and drones will be used to verify that the regulations are met.
The Local Government Board of Valencia will approve all these measures this Friday, including the reinforcement of the tasks of cleaning and disinfection and the Red Cross device, which is present on the city’s beaches. The plan for the reopening of the beaches has been drafted through the teamwork of the departments of Beaches, Cleaning, Citizen Protection, Environment and Integral Water Cycle. At the end of the week it will be known if the Ministry of Health accepts the request of the Generalitat so that the entire Valencian Community passes to phase 2 next Monday and, therefore, they can be reopen the beaches.
Recommendations of the Generalitat
This Tuesday the Generalitat published a guide for the safe reopening of the beaches of the Valencian Community with recommendations to the City Councils regarding security. The Valencia City Council collects some requests of Turisme Comunitat Valenciana, such as limiting the capacity of the beaches or reinforcing surveillance and cleaning, in addition to informing all recommendations through the signage. The Generalitat also recommends that the different consistories use the new technologies to be able to control how many people there are at any time.
Other municipalities of the Community are already working on plans similar to that of the Valencia City Council for the reopening of the beaches in phase 2. The Alicante City Council also plans to delimit the spaces and reserve some areas of sand next to the water to facilitate the circulation of people. In Dénia, from June 20 the beaches will be divided into three strips, with specific uses to be made in each of them. They will also be installed informative sign and the footbaths and play areas will be closed. The President of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, already advanced in late April that the objective for this summer was to be able to guarantee the safety of the beaches this summer.
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