| To prevent the spread of COVID-19 infections | In coordination with the Civil Guard, the Local Police of Totana is carrying out surveillance measures in leisure venues and public spaces susceptible to concentration of people in order to control surveillance in compliance with the measures during this weekend.
Hygienic-sanitary and social protection that prevent the spread of COVID-19 infections.The mayor, Juan José Cánovas, has urged the police officers to encourage, with the utmost rigor, surveillance in the areas and leisure establishments of Totana in order to control the schedules, noise levels and nature of the activity under of the pertinent license, as well as the application of preventive and interpersonal regulations in public spaces and outdoor sports fields in the urban area and districts.The first mayor is in permanent communication during this weekend with the regional health authorities, more specifically with the counselor of the Presidency, Javier Celdrán, and the director general of Public Health, José Carlos Vicente, in order to encourage prevention measures in premises that can become susceptible sources of virus contagion.The Epidemiology Service and the Public Health department of the Autonomous Community have transferred their concern to the Totana City Council regarding the growing cases of COVID-19 in the municipalities where more residents of citizens are concentrated in the Ecuadorian and Bolivian communities, where some of they have not kept the quarantine and 90% of the infections are of this origin.In addition, the sources of contagion in nightlife are increasing as a consequence of the relaxation of prevention measures; reason why from the Totana City Council the regional order to control the premises and leisure spaces in which these communities usually concentrate during the weekends for sports and other social activities, trying to avoid the crowds of people, is signed.The Autonomous Community has decreed the order to close a leisure venue in this municipality and warns about the worrying situation and the serious social and economic consequences that it would bring if it were not stopped at this time.Juan José Cánovas has shown his institutional concern for this context and has called for common sense and the individual responsibility of the general public to comply with and enforce preventive measures that prevent outbreaks that trigger the numbers of infected and community-transmitted infections by COVID -19.The mayor has defended the need to maintain a single command that sets the guidelines based on the recommendations of the health authorities, because as he has stated, "a second wave of the coronavirus, returning to confinement and everything that entails, would be a lethal blow and definitive for our health and the economy ”.In addition, it has advocated for displaying the individual and community responsibility of employers, freelancers, workers and institutions; although he reiterated that "this war against COVID-19 cannot be won by imposing sanctions that will also be imposed on those who violate the rules."In fact, the mayor of Totana has reported that citizens are being punished this weekend for not wearing a mask or not using it properly; and has insisted on the need to live a normal life following the rules and guidelines set by the authorities, with the established precautions and the social common sense that this social and health context requires.
