Progress! The Málaga province got to move into Phase 1 this week.
This phase change brings a few changes!
Restaurants’ outside terraces can open at half capacity, for groups of 10 or less.
Water sports can resume (we can go on the water and next to the water but not in the water yet).
Libraries can open with reduced capacity.
Fishing and hunting can resume.
We can do “rural” tourism in our province only.
People who live in the same house can now go in a car together (it was only one person allowed in a car before).
A few more businesses can open, with strict limits as to how many people can enter.
People can now visit friends and family in group of 10 or less. We haven’t been so brave to start doing this yet.
Places of worship can open at 30% capacity.
With more people out and about, Spain has required masks to be worn in closed spaces and streets where you can’t maintain a 2 meter distance.
Parts of the country will move to Phase 2 next week, but Málaga will have to wait at least one more week. Madrid and Barcelona will finally make it to Phase 1 next week.
The return to “new normalacy” is painfully slow, but the long months of confinement seem to have worked and all of the new freedoms are extremely welcome.
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