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...of Tourist Interest by the Junta de Andalucía. In recent times, the area described as "an example of freedom and respect" has been partly renovated with the aim of becoming a tourist and cultural attraction.
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JUAN SOTO
Shops and shoppers have been badly affected by the decision to keep people within their own municipalities as much as possible due to the coronavirus pandemic. Since the Junta de Andalucía brought the restrictions into effect over three weeks ago, ... are from other places on the Costa del Sol. The manager, Javier Moreno, says he is optimistic by nature and hopes that the Junta de Andalucía will lift the restrictions from 11 December so things can start to get back to normal. "We won't make up for
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IGNACIO LILLO
...according to plan. It will, however, mean another increase in costs for the Junta de Andalucía.
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Héctor Barbotta
On Tuesday the Junta de Andalucía will approve a move to fast-track three major tourist projects in Marbella, under a special scheme to speed up and facilitate bureaucratic processes for viable projects which are considered to be of strategic ... which will include an exhibition centre. The three projects, which include five-star hotels, will cost 411 million euros. Elías Bendodo, the Junta de Andalucía government representative, made this announcement in Marbella this week, at a virtual
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Marbella, Ojén and Mijas owned by 347 people or entities. Tangible damage to mountains and hillsides for which the Junta de Andalucía is responsible is calculated to be over 12 million euros, and the impact of the fire on underground waters, especially the
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...expected to be carried out in the Andalusian health service's mobile unit, one of eight vehicles recently acquired by the Junta for this purpose. There was nervous expectation among the local people, who had been called to the mobile unit or the local ... doctors' surgery on Monday morning. After the results of the tests on Friday were revealed the local residents were urged by their local town hall and the Junta de Andalucía not to leave their homes if except for essential outings. Special controls
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The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, has said that the regional authority would wait until mid-December before announcing the Covid-19 restrictions that would be in force during the Christmas holidays. Case rates are dropping ... curbing the spread of Covid-19 were extended last Sunday until 10 December, with very little change on the previous fortnight The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, announced that movement between municipalities would remain restricted
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...was 247 cases per 100,000 in the previous 14 days, down from 383 a week earlier. The highest case rate was in Jaén province with 333, with Granada province no longer occupying the top position. This week the Junta allowed bars and restaurants and
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...the year and would therefore allow a gradual opening of the facilities over the course of 2021. He added that the Junta had been "meeting all the deadlines promised by [regional] president Juanma Moreno in August" until now and that in the last few
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The Junta de Andalucía regional government has announced its draft budget for next year. Total expenditure would be 40.2 billion euros and the plan will now go to regional MPs to debate and approve before coming into effect. The ruling centre-right
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MARíA DOLORES TORTOSA
The restrictions currently in place in Andalucía to halt the second wave of coronavirus infections will most likely continue for a further two weeks after they expire on 24 November. This will include the long holiday weekend at the start of December
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Ivan Gelibter
Residents in Calle La Unión in Mijas and Fuengirola have been unable to cross their own street since Tuesday, at least according to the new restrictions brought in by the Junta de Andalucía which involve prohibiting movement between municipalities
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Debbie Bartlett
There was some initial confusion in Gibraltar and the Campo de Gibraltar area of Spain yesterday, after the Junta de Andalucía announced on Wednesday evening that the boundaries of the region were to close at midnight on Thursday. Nobody seemed sure ... how that might affect the Gibraltar border. Earlier on Wednesday, Gibraltar's chief minister Fabian Picardo and the president of the Junta, Juanma Moreno, held a telephone conversation in which Picardo explained the new measures he had announced for
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...town hall. Fuengirola council points out that Benalmádena hasn't looked after the area in dispute (sanitation, waste collection etc) for decades and that the Junta hasn't taken into account the reality of the current situation. That said, this is
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Héctor Barbotta
Platinum, the investment firm behind the development of the W project in Marbella, plans to open the resort in 2025. According to a document given to the Junta de Andalucía, both the developers and the Marriott hotel group, who will manage the
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ALMUDENA NOGUÉS
...health delegates in collaboration with local town halls who would decide whether to adopt more restrictive measures. The announcements came after the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, met on Monday with the committee of experts who are
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...just below the national average of 8.97 per cent, and 10.81 per cent of Intensive Care beds were occupied. The national average was 17.85 %. The Junta de Andalucía continues to monitor case levels in towns with a view to increasing restrictions and
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JOSÉ LUIS PIEDRA
...scheme was announced on Wednesday by Junta vice-president and minister for Tourism, Juan Marín, who indicated that the discount would apply to residents of Andalucía and on stays of a minimum of three nights in a hotel, booked through a travel agency.
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The president of the Junta de Andalucía has said this Monday that new measures to help curb the spread of Covid-19 will be announced later this week. The regional authority will keep a close eye on figures over the next two days and will make new ... made based on the advice from the Junta's technical-scientific committee. "I know that sometimes it's complicated to adapt to changes, but it's necessary to adapt to the situation," he said. His press conference came just a day after the central ... described the declaration of a nationwide state of alarm as "timely and necessary" as it gives the Junta de Andalucía the legal framework it needs to impose stricter measures. Moreno said that he considered the declaration to be an exceptional tool that
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...clinics comes as data shows that Andalucía is among the regions carrying out the least PCR tests. The Junta de Andalucía has said it is carrying out as many tests as it needs to. Not only are there many people waiting to get seen at public health ... rates are low The Junta has defended its track record on the rate of testing in the Andalucía region. Data up to 8 October shows that the average testing rate in Spain was 230.16 PCRs per 1,000 since the start of the pandemic, while Andalucía is at ... 135.49. The position is better for the faster, less reliable tests, where Andalucía is at 50,42, closer to the national average of 52.8. The Junta has said tests are being done in Andalucía at the rate "that they ought to and need to be", following
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MARÍA DOLORES TORTOSA
The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, has said that his government is prepared to provide rapid Covid-19 tests at Malaga Airport in a bid to refloat the tourism industry. Faced with the summer's plummeting international tourism ... by Covid while on holiday "The Junta de Andalucía is prepared to take on the technicalities of all the tests that need to be done on arrival or departure from the Costa del Sol at Malaga Airport, even though it's not our responsibility; and in ... a problem of a shortage of health workers and that the creation of safe travel corridors is possible now, when it wasn't in the summer. This, he said, is because of the new rapid test kits that the Junta has acquired, which are as reliable as a PCR
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Ivan Gelibter
After several years in the pipeline, the Junta de Andalucía regional government has finally given its approval to the future park in Las Lagunas, Mijas. This will be the largest in the province of Malaga when construction is completed - with initial
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NURIA TRIGUERO
Just like Covid-19, there has been a second wave of furloughing in Malaga province, including the Costa del Sol. With the restrictions imposed by the Junta de Andalucía on bars, restaurants, some shops and other non-essential services, almost 1,000 ... included those that have had to lower the shutters at 6pm. This week the Junta said it had already processed 550 of these requests from companies in this position. The other recent category of ERTE furloughing created as a result of Covid-19 is where a ... firm is stopped from operating completely due to any measure adopted since 1 October by national or foreign authorities. Sixty-one local ERTE applications of this type were sent to the Junta from 10 to 23 November. Forty of these the regional government
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The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, said on Thursday that he would consider bringing in further Covid-19 restrictions in the region if the case figures and hospitalisations continue to soar for the rest of September. He ... highs, the pressure on the hospitals is lower than it was in March and April when as many as 2,708 people with Covid were in hospital at one time. Nevertheless on Tuesday the Junta activated its emergency plan to have 3,000 beds ready for Covid patients
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Despite an announcement to the contrary earlier this week, on Wednesday the deputy minister of Health at the Junta de Andalucía regional government, Catalina García, rejected the claim that there was community transmission of Covid-19 in Malaga ... province. This was in direct contradition to the announcement made by Junta spokesman Elías Bendodo on Tuesday after the Cabinet meeting. Bendodo said that prevalence of Covid-19 was now considered so widespread that infections could no longer be tracked ... to a specific source. García admitted that the incidence of coronavirus is higher in Malaga than in the rest of the Andalusian provinces, but insisted that “this does not mean community transmission”. She explained that the Junta had access to an
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Héctor Barbotta
The Junta regional government has said that it doesn't have the money at the moment to carry out the long-planned expansion of Marbella's La Bajadilla port, east of the town centre. In 2011, Sheikh Al-Thani, also the controversial owner of Malaga
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The council in Mijas has asked the Andalusian regional government to think twice about setting up a 'medicalised' hotel in the municipality. The Ilunion Hotel has been kitted out at short notice by the Junta's Health Service to take people with ... the lowest amount of Covid-19 cases in Malaga province and one of the areas with the fewest hotel beds for tourists on the Costa del Sol. The Junta de Andalucía has been urgently converting the Ilunion Hotel, on the road up to Mijas Pueblo and ... difficult connection to the motorway." The Junta's move has also reignited negotiations over a future hospital for Mijas. The council has said the Junta should have the municipality as much in mind when it comes "to building the needed hospital" for Mijas
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The vice-president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Marín, announced on Thursday that from 1 January, foreign tourists arriving in the region from the principal European countries of origin will have a special coronvirus insurance provided by the
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The regional Health ministry admitted this week that Andalucía, which is still seeing fewer cases than other parts of Spain, was immersed in a second wave of Covid-19. Jesus Aguirre, regional Health minister, said on Tuesday that this wave has “ver
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In response to capacity controls being enforced at 29 locations and 8,000 incidents reported on beaches on the Malaga coastline last weekend, spokesperson for the Junta de Andalucía regional government, Elías Bendodo, this week appealed to
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The much-needed new Andalusian Health Service (SAS) hospital for Malaga will be delivered using a mixed public-private financing model. The Junta de Andalucía plans to tender a 400-million-euro contract for the plans and the construction of the new ... More details of the package, designed to revive the region after the Covid health crisis, were given by the vice-president of the Junta, Juan Marín, earlier this week. As well as the Malaga and Estepona hospitals, among the other projects in the
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The Junta de Andalucía regional government believes that the situation in Malaga province is no longer one of insolated outbreaks, but rather one of "community transmission", said Junta spokesman Elías Bendodo on Tuesday. This means that ... role in this spike and that the Junta will be observing whether the decrease in visitors now will be reflected in the case numbers.
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Smoking is now banned in the street and public spaces in Andalucía wherever the smoker cannot guarantee a distance of two metres from other people. This is one of the new restrictions published by the Junta de Andalucía on Sunday, and in force ... affecting nightlife and bars and restaurants. As expected, the Junta no longer authorises the opening of recreational establishments such as nightclubs and disco-bars. Distance in bars Bars, cafeterias and restaurants will also have to adhere to ... devices, such as water pipes and e-cigarettes. The order also establishes new rules regarding visits to care homes and PCR testing in the case of local Covid-19 outbreaks. In the case of private social gatherings, the Junta recommends that these be
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...on the first Sunday of July, 55 beaches across the region as a whole saw restrictions imposed at some point, according to official data from the Junta de Andalucía. Malaga led the ranking with 29, followed by Cadiz (14), Huelva (9), Almeria (2) and ... for people, but almost everyone understood it," he said. The decision to close a specific beach is taken at the 112 control centre after analysing the information that these monitors, hired by the Junta, provide. They work with a mobile application
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VANESSA MELGAR
The Environment ministry of the Junta de Andalucía regional government has this week moved to deny that video footage of an Iberian lynx could have been filmed in the Serranía de Ronda. The video of the animal went viral after local businessman ... very long time. Perhaps because of the coronavirus their habitat is expanding. There are a lot fewer people in the countryside now." For its part, the Junta has concluded that the video must have been taken in Seville or Huelva, pointing towards the
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...larger groups and causing localised coronavirus outbreaks, the Junta de Andalucía regional government believes. After a meeting on Monday with mayors from the main city in each of the region's provinces to seek consensus, the decision was taken not to ... close the sector but to be tougher on the "main route of contagion". However club and bar owners have demanded that the Junta change its mind, claiming their premises aren't the cause of any outbreak. Besides nightclubs needing to log customer
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Andalucía will have the safest beaches in Spain this summer said regional minister Elías Bendodo, who was in Marbella on Monday to launch the 34-million-euro beach monitoring plan. Accompanied by the Andalusian tourism minister, Juan Marín; the ma
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The Junta regional government has said that it wants Andalucía to be on the front foot in welcoming back the first foreign tourists to Spain by running a pilot scheme similar to the one planned on the Balearic Islands. Ahead of Spain reopening ... comments, Marín has also said that the Junta is in favour of foreign arrivals carrying a form of health passport or ID card, proving they do not have coronavirus. The regional government has been particularly worried about the upcoming annual migration by ... The idea of a health passport came after opposition parties said that the original proposal, to suspend the huge 'Operation Crossing the Strait' (Operación Paso del Estrecho) was racist. The Junta has also called for illegal migrants recently
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AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ
Following widespread calls from agricultural organisations and producers, the regional government announced on Wednesday that it will lift water restrictions in the Axarquía, which had been in place since November, for the remainder of the hydrologic
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The Junta de Andalucía regional government has recommended that no fairs or street parties be celebrated this summer as part of a new health protocol announced on Tuesday in a bid to avoid a new outbreak of coronavirus in the region. While the