The Board published today in the Official Gazette of Galicia the conditions that will govern from next Monday, when the community will leave State of alarm, which has set the standards during the coronavirus pandemic, and will enter the call ‘new normal’. Daily life will maintain, in any case, many of the obligations established in recent months. Citizens will have to continue using the mask and keep the safety distance between people. “They must take the necessary measures to prevent the generation of risks of the spread of COVID-19 disease, as well as their own exposure to these risks,” says the Xunta in its resolution.
A general level, the capacity limit is set at 75 percent. It will be the maximum for places of worship, commerce, markets, academies, bars, cafes, restaurants, swimming pools, common areas of hotels, museums, cinemas, auditoriums, congresses or professional meetings. The common spaces of shopping centers and tourist hostels will have a maximum of 50 percent and the terraces of 80.
Outdoor playgrounds and sports courts are reopened. Of course, the children’s leisure centers will remain closed, while the public in sports activities will be limited to 1,000 people if it is outdoors and 300 if it is indoors. The Xunta leaves to the Councils the regulation of the Beaches with regard to times of permanence, occupation and circulation of bathers.
In the velatorios A maximum of 60 people will be allowed outdoors and 30 indoors. In addition, the funeral processions will be limited to 75 people. In the places of worship, which will be at a maximum of 75 percent, holy water may not be used and there may not be choirs.
All types of premises, establishments and businesses must take extreme cleaning and disinfection measures, and must facilitate the card payment. Clients must stay the time strictly necessary and will be able to access hydroalcoholic gel dispensers.
As of July 1, if the evolution is positive, they will be able to reopen children’s entertainment, pubs and discos, children’s parties, popular festivals and fair attractions may be held.
They are still closed
As long as the Xunta de Galicia does not authorize it, the nursery schools and other spaces for children under 12 years old, youth residences and free time, spaces and youth hostels dependent on the Department of Social Policy, socio-community welfare centers, conciliation services group character, day centers for the elderly or people with disabilities, except for therapies by appointment preva. The soup kitchens and social care centers remain open with a maximum of 75 percent of the capacity.
Funeral in memory of the victims
The Galician dioceses as a whole will celebrate this Saturday in Santiago de Compostela a funeral in memory and for the eternal rest of the victims of COVID-19. It will be at 12:00 in the Compostela Church of San Francisco, where the Archdiocese of Santiago performs its solemn acts due to the restoration works that keep the Compostela Cathedral closed to worship. It will be presided over by the Archbishop of Santiago, Monsignor Julián Barrio.
In addition, the bishops of the Galician dioceses will act as concelebrants and the presence of the president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, is expected. The Galician dioceses have recalled that the celebration will be carried out with “all the protection measures in force in phase 3”, in which Galicia is located, with which, people who wish to attend may do so until the capacity is full. In addition, the ceremony will be broadcast live on Galicia Television.
On the same day, as the Galician president advanced two weeks ago, the Xunta will also hold a civil ceremony in memory of those who died from the pandemic and as a sign of support and condolence to their families.
The BOE publishes the extension to phase 3 of most of the country
The Official State Gazette (BOE) publishes this Saturday the map of the de-escalation in force as of Monday, with most of the country already in phase 3 and only Madrid, Barcelona, Lleida and the Castilian-Leon provinces of Salamanca, Ávila, Segovia and Soria in phase 2.
Galicia will leave the state of alarm and will release the so-called “new normal” with its own rules, and the Valencian Community will join the last stage of the de-escalation; Girona and Central Catalunya (Catalonia); Burgos, León, Palencia, Valladolid and Zamora (Castilla y León); and Albacete, Toledo and Ciudad Real (Castilla-La Mancha); and Ceuta.
On Monday, 34 million Spaniards – three out of every 4 – will be thus in phase 3 and 12 million will continue in phase 2 and will go directly to the “new normal” The 21st of June, as explained yesterday by the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa. That day the alarm state will no longer be in effect and there will be free movement between autonomous communities. The BOE marks this Saturday the “territorial units” within which the residents may move until then. They are Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, the Valencian Community, Extremadura, Galicia, Murcia, Navarra, the Basque Country, La Rioja, Ceuta and Melilla.
In Castilla y León there will be no interprovincial mobility and in Castilla-La Mancha it will be allowed only between the provinces of Guadalajara and Cuenca, which have been in phase 3 for a week. In Catalonia, according to the BOE, the health zones in phase 3 form a single territorial unit.
The Bulletin also modifies several orders issued in the framework of the state of alarm to allow, for example, the entry into Spanish ports of foreign ships or pleasure boats even if they do not have their port of stay in Spain, although the prohibition for cruise ships.
Helicopter flights to Ceuta are also allowed and, despite the fact that the ban on disembarking passengers from the peninsula on passenger ships that provide regular line service with that autonomous city is maintained, new exceptions are set for residents, provided that its circulation is allowed, and for certain groups with a specific authorization from the Government Delegation.
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