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ARCHIVED - Mazarrón and Lorca face further restrictions as Covid cases rise to 415
A further 53 new positives on Sunday
Last week the regional Health Authority took the decision to confine the Totana municipality for one week due to the high number of cases, all stemming back to the actions of a Covid-positive DJ who performed sets at both the Totana pub and the Atalayas leisure zone in Murcia City, creating a web of positive cases which spread out into the Latin-American community and then out into the wider community.
In just one week the number of positives in the Murcia Region has risen from 138 to 415, and this week the sudden spread of the virus looks set to continue.
Although Totana has been confined to stop residents moving across into neighbouring municipalities, it is unrealistic to believe that there have not already been contacts in neighbouring municipalities, hence the decision of the Alhama de Murcia council on Friday to close off areas in which particularly young people gather and which are most likely to provide focal points in which the virus could spread.
Some of the people who have tested positive in Totana are known to work in neighbouring municipalities, so although contact tracers are hard at work attempting to reach known contacts and work colleagues and call them in for a PCR test, there is a strong chance that there will be associated cases outside of the municipality.
The decision of the British government on Saturday to reinstate quarantine for British Tourists may yet prove to be a blessing for local residents as it limits the opportunities for larger numbers of expats to unwittingly spread the virus into the local resorts and potentially infect a principally older resident expat population, even though it’s a brutal body blow to most of us running small businesses out here who are likely to witness a substantial and in some cases, fatal, loss of summer revenue which is going to finish off some of our businesses.
The most important thing the resident population of Alhama, Totana, Mazarrón and now Lorca have to understand is that the time for arguing about whether it’s necessary to wear a mask in-between sips of a drink when sitting in a bar, or when attending a quiz night IS OVER.
We all now have to take very seriously the prospect that the virus has spread further into the local population and there is not only a greater risk of being infected, there is now a greater risk that the regional government may decide that it is prudent to confine neighbouring areas of Totana as well.
The decision taken by the British Government will make it easier for our regional government to make a very difficult decision as there will be less tourists coming here because of what the British Government has done regardless.
I am fully aware writing this that advertisers will yet again be on the phone to me cancelling our advertising for “stirring things up”and “scaremongering” and equally aware that readers do not want to pay for their news, so I’m shooting my own business in the foot, but the figures are stacking up against us, and the headline on La Verdad this morning is that the Health Ministry has warned that “if the evolution of cases in Lorca and Mazarrón don´t improve then measures will be taken”.
So it’s not as though we’re making this up or trying to scare anyone. Forewarned is forearmed and we all have no choice other than to be responsible and adult about the potential risks. Put your masks on when you go out and stop arguing about it.
What is worrying, and I don´t use that word lightly, is that the number of cases in Lorca as 16 and the number in Mazarrón as 19. The last official figures we were given on Wednesday about the location of the cases throughout the region is that there were 3 cases in Mazarrón and 3 in Lorca; that means that there has been a sudden increase in the last few days. We won´t get the official location figures again until Wednesday evening.
We know that Mazarrón closed its post office last week due to staff there testing positive and we know that Mazarrón has closed its day centres for the elderly and stopped visits to the care home for the elderly due to a carer testing positve, but that’s as much as we know at the moment.
The regional Health Minister has quoted 72 hours as being the period during which the evolution of cases in Lorca and Mazarrón will be carefully examined.
The health minister is also “concerned” about certain areas in the Murcia city municipality, such as the barrio de San Andrés, which is an area with a high Latin-American population and also areas such as Beniaján, which is part of the corridor of residential areas running along the base of the El Valle park, and is a major residential area for those working in the City of Murcia.
Verdad says that there are now 108 cases associated with the Totana outbreak and 82 with the Atalayas as well as 14 amongst the migranst who arrived in a wave of small boats this weekend.
The Mayor of Lorca has said this morning that he is waiting for the tracers to see if the new cases detected in Lorca are related to a new outbreak or if they are isolate cases.
So be sensible and be aware. We appear to be entering a week in which there may be further confinements.
I am supposed to be taking this week off following a particularly gruelling spring which started on March 14th but will follow the latest developments relating to this and post the information.
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