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EUROPA PRESS
The UGT union in Andalucía has called for three days of strike action at all ITV vehicle testing stations stations in Andalucía on 25, 26 and 27 January if negotiations with the management company, Veiasa, fail. In a statement released this Monday
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Ivan Gelibter
The increase in the Covid-19 contagion rate in the province of Malaga - which already exceeds 300 per 100,000 inhabitants - has accelerated the rate of mass screening carried out by Junta de Andalucía. On Monday mobile screening units were in Gaucí
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JOSÉ LUIS PIEDRA
...results, were done on a random, representative sample of the population. The screening was carried out by a Junta de Andalucía mobile unit which also travelled to Algeciras, where another 1,000 people were also called to participate. The testing was
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FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ
Four of the nine ITV vehicle testing stations in the province of Malaga have been closed this Wednesday during the second strike called by the UGT for every Wednesday in December. Another four of the UK MOT-equivalent test centres were working at
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SUR
The Andalusian government is to carry out new mass testing programmes for Covid-19 in 26 municipalities across the region, including the Malaga town of Álora. Among the other places to have mass testing is the city of Almeria and the Granada ... 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 ... experiencing very high case rates that stubbornly refused to drop. The PCR tests carried out showed 162 positives among the 1,599 tested, a rate of 10 per cent. People testing positive were told to self-isolate. The more-accurate PCR showed a lower infection
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antonio m. ROMERO
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. ... have been set up at the access roads to the village, while volunteers from the Civil Protection organisation have been shopping for thre numerous residents self-isolating in their homes after testing positive.
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Eugenio Cabezas
Nerja's wastewater station officially entered its testing phase on Tuesday, following a five-year delay. Mayor of Nerja, José Alberto Armijo said, "Today, 27 October 2020, is a historic day. Nerja starting treating sewage water." The testing phase
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SUR
...of no more than ten people together), further measures introduced in Andalucía this week include the mass testing of residents in towns and villages with contagion figures of more than 500 per 100,000 inhabitants over a 14-day period. The
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...notification rate per 100,000 inhabitants currently at 1,276, the regional authority is to carry out mass Covid testing as it has done previously inSierra de Yeguas and Villanueva de la Concepción. Mass screening with rapid antigen tests will also be carried
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Eugenio Cabezas
Nerja's new sewage treatment plant is still waiting to be connected to the electricity supply so that it can go into testing phase. The latest date set by mayor José Alberto Armijo was mid-October. The town hall has recently awarded a contract