8 Jan, 2021 @ 13:32
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BREAKING: Travel between provinces remains but bars and restaurants must close at 6pm as Spain’s Andalucia announces new COVID-19 restrictions

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ANDALUCIA has announced new COVID-19 restrictions following a surge in cases over the past week.

Speaking at a press conference on Friday, regional president Juanma Moreno revealed that travel between the eight provinces will remain in place ‘for now.’

But the hospitality industry will be forced to close at 6pm, affecting all bars and restaurants.

Cafes, meanwhile, will be permitted to open until 8pm, but cannot serve alcohol past 6pm.

Shops will also be ordered to close at 8pm, having previously been allowed to open until 10:30pm.

The curfew has also changed, with the starting hour moving back from 11pm to 10pm. It will continue to end at 6am.

The southernmost region will once again close its outer perimeter, meaning no one can enter without a justified reason.

The eight Campo de Gibraltar towns ordered to close their borders due to the UK variant of the virus must keep them closed.

University classes must also move to online.

The new measures will be in place from midnight on Sunday until at least January 25.

More to follow…

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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