28 Oct, 2020 @ 17:35
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BREAKING: Spain’s Murcia to close down external borders and confine all 45 of its municipalities

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MURCIA has announced it is closing its external borders and those of its 45 municipalities.

The measure will last for at least 15 days and will begin tomorrow.

It means residents, from Friday, will not be permitted to leave their municipality or the region of Murcia.

There are, as ever, exceptions, including travelling for work, legal obligations, attending university, teaching or caring for dependants.

The decision was taken today by president of the region Fernando Lopez Miras, who will speak at a press conference with regional health minister Manuel Villegas later this afternoon.

It comes after health experts have warned of a collapse of the health system in Murcia due to the increasing number of coronavirus cases and patients.

The incidence rate of the virus in the region is now 577 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, up from 434 just seven days ago.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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