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Focused mass testing for Covid-19 continues in high-risk places in Andalucía

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Alpujarras town of Órgiva. The widening of the tests to more municipalities came as the results came in of last week's mass testing on all residents in the Malaga province village of Cuevas del Becerro. Ten per cent positive The small village had been ... rate than the lateral-flow test carried out on a smaller sample a week earlier in Cuevas del Becerro. The mayor of the village, Ana María García Picón, said that she hoped that with the measures now being adopted, normality would return little by

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Cuevas del Becerro becomes first village in Andalucía to test the whole population for Covid-19

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Cuevas del Becerro, near Ronda, is the first municipality in Andalucía where the entire local population is to be tested for Covid-19. The decision was made following the high infection rate detected after mass testing was carried out on Friday.

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Mass testing and early closing in Teba, Almáchar and Cuevas de San Marcos

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...similar to those affecting Teba this week is the village of Cuevas de San Marcos. The new measures include the closure of public parks and gardens. In Cuevas de San Marcos, 330 local people were tested for Covid-19 on Tuesday this week. The increase in

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Covid-19: Junta to mass screen 49 towns in Andalucía in 'the next few days'

EUROPA PRESS

...exceed 500 accumulated incidence cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days and therefore, their municipal borders are closed. In Almeria, mass screenings will be carried out in Albox, Carboneras, Chirivel, Cuevas de Almanzora, Mojácar and

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British man, 65, found dead after Comares house blaze

Eugenio Cabezas

...lived in Comares for almost two decades. Sources told SUR he had four children from two different marriages. A caller alerted the 112 emergency number to the house fire in the Chiquín area, near the pedestrian bridge over the Cuevas river at around at

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Snowfall blankets many parts of Malaga province

JUAN SOTO / FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ / EUGENIO CABEZAS / VANESSA MELGAR

...where the use of snow chains became mandatory on three routes - the A-397, between Ronda and San Pedro; the A-367, near the port of Saltillo, in Cuevas del Becerro; and the A-366, between Ronda and Coín. In addition, the control centre also recommended

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Cuevas Bajas, Malaga city and Ronda have the most Covid-19 cases per capita

NURIA TRIGUERO

...looked at in relation to the population size, there's one village that appears right at the top of the Covid-19 infection list: Cuevas Bajas. Figures released on Monday revealed 16 confirmed cases of the virus in this municipality in the north-east of the ... province, with 1,395 inhabitants. This makes its infection rate 11.47 cases per 1,000 inhabitants. The average per capita rate for the province of Malaga is 1.83. Cuevas Bajas has three times as many confirmed cases as, for example, Torrox, which has ten ... times its population. Less surprisingly, Malaga city is second on the list of municipalities with the most cases per capita - 2.9 for every 1,000 inhabitants. Cuevas Bajas.S. SALAS Third on the list is Ronda, with 2.86. The town has seen a higher

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Resoli and mistela, two traditional drinks for Christmas

...and winter, and especially Christmas, are when they really come into their own. In the case of resoli, this is an aniseed-type drink which is made in the villages of Alfarnate, Cuevas de San Marcos and Cuevas Bajas. In the first of these, it is also ... As well as the villages of Cuevas de San Marcos and Cuevas Bajas in Malaga province, it is also traditional in some places in Jaén and Cordoba. Some people say there is a relationship between this drink and the villages which have a special devotion

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Coronavirus alert levels drop across Malaga province - except the Serranía de Ronda

RAQUEL MERINO

Alameda, Almargen, Antequera, Archidona, Campillos, Cañete la Real, Cuevas Bajas, Cuevas de San Marcos, Fuente de Piedra, Humilladero, Mollina, Sierra de Yeguas, Teba, Valle de Abdalajís, Villanueva de Algaidas, Villanueva de la Concepción, Villanueva ... Periana, Riogordo, Salares, Sayalonga, Sedella, Torrox, Vélez-Málaga. Serranía de Ronda health district – alert level 4 Algatocín, Alpandeire, Arriate, Atajate, Benaladid, Benalauría, Benaoján, Benarrabá, Cartajima, Cortes de la Frontera, Cuevas del

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Marbella plans to turn Hacienda de Toros into a centre for mental health patients

JOSÉ MARÍA MARTÍN / Neil Hesketh

...president of local mental-health charity Afesol, Concepción Cuevas. Mata said the Hacienda de Toros meets many of the requirements needed for a centre of this type, not only from the healthcare aspect but also from a social point of view, enabling the ... de Toros for other purposes, "but we have always wanted, and have always been committed, from the first minute to use this complex for a project which would help part of the local population". Concepción Cuevas, the president of Afesol, also expressed