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The seven Malaga municipalities facing non-essential business closures from this Wednesday

Bars and restaurants will be forced to close. File photograph.
Bars and restaurants will be forced to close. File photograph. / ÑITO SALAS

  • Malaga, Casares, Ojén, Benaoján, Cortes de la Frontera, Genalguacil and Jubrique have exceeded an incidence rate of a thousand cases for every one hundred thousand inhabitants and will have to shut all their non-essential businesses

  • ALBERTO GÓMEZ

Malaga city, Casares, Ojén, Benaoján, Cortes de la Frontera, Genalguacil and Jubrique have this Monday (1 February) exceeded a 14-day Covid-19 incidence rate of a thousand cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants and will have to close all non-essential activity from the early hours of Wednesday morning.

This measure will last for at least two weeks, until 17 February.

These towns are added to the existing list of towns exceeding the 1,000 rate in Malaga province that includes Marbella, Estepona, Alhaurín de la Torre, Manilva, Villanueva del Rosario, Benarrabá, Tolox, Casabermeja, Mollina, Villanueva del Trabuco, Pizarra, Cútar, Arriate, Ronda, Alameda, Almargen, Teba, Cañete la Real, Benamocarra, El Borge, Salares, Alfarnate, Vélez-Málaga, Alcaucín, Moclinejo, Alhaurín el Grande, Ardales, Coín, Alfarnatejo, Monda, Álora, Algatocín, Cartajima, Igualeja and Faraján.

The Junta de Andalucía analyses the accumulated incidence rate every Monday and every Thursday. Municipalities whose contagion rate exceeds 500 cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants must close on the perimeter. When the incidence reaches 1,000 positives, the closure of all non-essential activities is also ordered. The measures have a minimum duration of two weeks and are extended if the rate continues to exceed a thousand cases in the following data reviews.

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