[News] Navarra, under perimeter confinement since midnight

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For 14 days, the hotel business will be closed and the bubbles between cohabitants in each home must be preserved. The confinement will not affect the border with Iparralde.

 

This Thursday the perimeter confinement and the restrictive measures announced by the president of Navarra to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus come into force. For 14 days, until November 4, entry and exit from the Autonomous Community will be restricted, except in cases of force majeure, and bars and restaurants will remain closed.

According to the latest data provided by the Regional Government, Navarra has registered a decrease in positives in recent hours (367 new cases), with a rate of 9.85%. In addition, eight deaths have been recorded.
 

The measures adopted have to be ratified by the Superior Court of Justice of Navarra (TSJN), from which a ruling is expected, at the latest, on Friday. However, the Minister of the Presidency of Navarra, Javier Remírez, advanced that they foresee that in the Interterritorial Health meeting this Thursday there will be a decision that can give "legal guarantee" to the new restrictive measures.
 

Meanwhile, as of midnight, the entries and exits of the Autonomous Community will be restricted, except for travel for work reasons, university studies, caring for relatives and other force majeure. However, the Minister of Citizen Relations of the Provincial Government, Ana Ollo, has stated that the perimeter confinement "would not affect the international border" with Iparralde because the Regional Community "does not have powers in that area."
 

"Another thing is if from the central government, as it was pointed out yesterday, an alarm decree and a curfew are advanced and in that sense there could be an affection. At this moment, with the provincial order still not closed In principle, it would not affect that border, "he said.

Ollo recalled that Navarra, when the state of alarm was in force in the first wave of the pandemic, "requested that the cross-border space be considered a peculiar space because its closure hinders commercial activities that are very important for Navarra and also those neighborhood relations and of the citizens themselves on both sides of the muga ". In this way, she has indicated that "if at a certain moment there is a decision in this sense, we will try to make that space be considered in its peculiarity".
 

Regarding the closure of bars, cafes and restaurants, only those establishments that sell bread and newspapers may open, if they have authorization to do so, and for the sale of food at home until 9:00 p.m.

In the case of hotels and rural houses, in addition, restoration will be allowed to serve the people who are staying, at tables of four people maximum.

The hospitality sector in Navarra has been very critical of the closure, and has demanded a "rescue and viability plan" in view of what they consider a "political" decision, and not a health one.

In addition, the restrictions will also affect commerce and all cultural and sporting events, which will have to close its doors and evict its customers daily by 9:00 p.m. In the case of galleries and leisure areas in large shopping areas, their recreational use is prohibited, and access and use of these large areas is limited only to make purchases.

Likewise, the Regional Executive establishes the obligation to create "coexistence bubbles" between the cohabitants of each domicile. In the case of single or dependent people, this stable group of relationship to caregivers can be expanded, limiting contacts with people outside these bubbles to the essential minimum.
 

"Tough measures to save lives"
 

The president of Navarra, María Chivite, admitted on Monday that the measures adopted were "harsh" but stressed that given the "very high" figures in recent weeks, the question was to take "measures that save lives." "We are advancing in a scenario of restrictions that, if accompanied by strict compliance, will work and will be the leap we need to stop this second wave," he insisted, although he also assured that "if more steps must be taken, we will take them."