Resolution 08-05-2021 on public health measures in the Valencian community

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RESOLUTION OF MAY 8, 2021, OF THE COUNCIL OF UNIVERSAL HEALTH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, BY MEASURES ON PUBLIC HEALTH ARE AGREED IN THE FIELD OF THE VALENCIAN COMMUNITY, AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE SITUATION OF HEALTH CRISIS CAUSED BY COVID-19

First. Precautionary, safety and hygiene measures.

The following safety and hygiene measures are agreed in public health to face the health crisis caused by SARS-CoV-2, within the Valencian Community:

1. Duty of caution and protection.
All citizens must adopt the necessary measures to avoid the generation of risks of spread of the COVID-19 disease.

2. Interpersonal safe distance.
1. The maintenance of the interpersonal safety distance established in Law 2/2021, of March 29, on urgent prevention, containment and coordination measures to face the health crisis caused by Covid-19 of, by at least 1.5 meters.

2. In the use of lift and freight elevator, the maximum occupancy of people will be 1/3 of its capacity, except in the case of people living together.

3. Use of mask.
1. People six years of age and older are obliged to use masks in the following cases:

a) On public roads, in open air spaces and in any closed space for public use or that is open to the public, regardless of the maintenance of the physical interpersonal safety distance.

2. The obligation contained in the previous section will not be enforceable:

a) For people who present some type of illness or respiratory difficulty that may be aggravated by the use of the mask or who, due to their situation of disability or dependency, do not have the autonomy to remove the mask, or have behavioral disorders that make its use unfeasible.

b) Neither shall it be required in the case of individual outdoor sport, nor in cases of force majeure or situation of necessity or when, due to the very nature of the activities, the use of the mask is incompatible, in accordance with the indications of the health authorities.
3. Activities that involve physical effort of a non-sporting nature, outdoors and individually, are equated to the exercise of individual sport, maintaining, in any case, the minimum distance of 1.5 meters with other people who are not cohabiting.

4. The following activities are considered incompatible with the use of the mask:

a) Bathing in the sea, lakes, reservoirs, rivers or other bathing areas; as well as in swimming pools, outdoors or indoors.
b) The practice of sport in the aquatic environment, be it natural or artificial.
c) Rest periods before or after bathing or practicing sports in the aquatic environment, in its surroundings.

In the case of rest on the beaches, rivers or similar environments, or in uncovered swimming pools, the aforementioned period may only be extended to that in which the person remains at a certain point and respecting the minimum distance of 1.5 meters with other people that they are not living together, and without the group of people being able to exceed the maximum number allowed.

In the case of covered swimming pools or in the event that this rest is carried out on board boats, the rest period will only be understood as the strictly necessary between activity intervals.

5. The following activities are considered compatible with the use of the mask:

a) The walk through the accesses to beaches, lakes and other natural environments.
b) The walk to the seashore and other aquatic environments.
c) The use of changing rooms in public or community pools, except in showers.
d) Staying outside or inside hospitality establishments outside of the times strictly necessary to eat or drink.

Second. Specific measures by activities, services and sectors, in matters of public health.

1. Measures related to celebrations, events or gatherings of people:

1. The realization of popular celebrations, parades or traveling shows is not allowed.

2. Events of any nature, which may involve an agglomeration of people and are not specifically provided for elsewhere in this resolution, will be carried out in accordance with the following measures:

a) In the case of being held indoors, the capacity will be 75% with a maximum of 500 people attending.
b) In the case of being held outdoors, the capacity will be 75% with a maximum of 1000 people attending. However, you can establish divisions of the space of up to a maximum of 4 differentiated sectors of 500 people attending each of them, with entry and exit,
Separate toilets and catering services in each sector.

3. In any case, the following must be complied with:

a) Establishment of pre-assigned seats or seats, maintaining a seat distance in the same row in case of fixed seats or compliance with the interpersonal distance of 1.5 meters except cohabitants and maximum groups of 10 people.
b) Establishment of staggered entrances and exits and ordering the movement of attendees with signaling of the direction of circulation or physical barriers that delimit the circuits.
c) The consumption of food or beverages is not allowed, except water, except in the restaurant area enabled for this purpose, which must be separated from the event area and comply with the measures of the hotel and restaurant establishments.
d) Smoking or use of any other tobacco inhalation device, water pipes, hookahs or similar devices, including electronic cigarettes or vaping, is not allowed.

2. Measures related to libraries, archives, museums, exhibition halls, art galleries, monuments and other cultural facilities.

3. Guided tours will be for groups of up to 20 people in open spaces and up to 10 people in closed areas.

4. Measures relating to cinemas, summer cinemas, drive-ins, theaters, amphitheaters, auditoriums, multipurpose halls, performing arts halls and circuses.

1. In the establishments ordered by this point, the maximum capacity is 75%.
2. Entries will be numbered, with registration of attendees or pre-allocation of seats. Access will be done gradually, with staggered breaks and interpersonal distance between workers and the public and the public between them.
3. The public must be seated and consumption is not allowed.
4. The exchange of objects with and between the public is not allowed.
5. Fixed or portable installations are considered included in this point.

8. Measures related to commercial establishments and premises and the provision of services.

1. Commercial establishments and premises and professional services activities, regardless of their useful display and sales area, must limit their total capacity to 75%. In the case of establishments or premises distributed over several floors, the presence of customers in each of them must keep this same proportion. The maximum capacity allowed will be visible at the entrance.

2. All establishments and commercial premises and professional service activities that have parking lots or spaces for the parking of their clients' vehicles, will limit the capacity of these parking lots and spaces to 75%.

4. In commercial and service premises, including those located in shopping centers, the use of common and recreational areas of commercial parks is not allowed, except for transit between commercial establishments.

5. For the purposes of this point, the establishments whose main activity is the provision of professional services and the centers in which non-regulated training is given are not included.

9. Measures related to non-sedentary sales markets.

1. In the case of non-sedentary sales markets (“flea markets”), which carry out their activity on public roads in the open air, up to a maximum of 75% of the usually authorized stalls may be installed, and the available space may be increased. , so that an equivalent effect is produced to ensure that the safety distance is maintained and crowds are avoided. Alternatively, you can choose to limit and control the capacity to 75% of its capacity without limiting the number of seats.

4. Once the sales activity is finished, and all the stalls have been collected, the floors and surfaces of the entire enclosure where the market has been developed will be cleaned and disinfected, as well as the entrances and exit areas.

11. Measures related to hotel and restaurant establishments.

1. This point includes all the hotel and restaurant activities that are intended to provide the service of drinks and food prepared for consumption inside or outside the premises, among which are, banquet halls, restaurants, cafe, bar, cafeterias, public establishments located in maritime-terrestrial zone and lounge-lounge.

2. In these establishments, the capacity allowed inside the premises is 50%, always respecting strict compliance with the ventilation and air conditioning measures in interior spaces.
On the outdoor terraces the capacity is 100%. "Outdoor terraces" are considered to be any uncovered space or any space that, being covered, is laterally surrounded by a maximum of two walls, walls or facings.

3. These establishments:
- They must be closed at 11:30 p.m.
- The occupation of the tables will be a maximum of 10 people per table or groups of tables, unless they are living together.
- The distance between tables will be 2 meters inside establishments and 1.5 meters on outdoor terraces.
- Consumption will always be sitting at the table.
- The use of a mask will be necessary when it is not being consumed.
- The maximum capacity allowed must be visible at the entrance.
- General and additional hygiene measures will be respected.

4. It is not allowed in restaurants and hotels:
- The use of the bar.
- To smoke.
- The use of any other inhalation device for tobacco, water pipes, hookahs or similar, including electronic cigarettes or vaping in outdoor or closed spaces.
- The dance, neither indoors nor outdoors.

5. The establishments, premises and activities that by virtue of their special characteristics provide a service that may be considered essential or non-replaceable are excepted from the closing time limit foreseen in the previous section:
- Hospitality services of hospitals and clinics, for the use of professionals, and companions and relatives of patients.
- Hotel and restaurant services for hotel establishments and tourist accommodation, for the exclusive use of the customers staying there.
- Hotel and restaurant services located in companies and workplaces, for the exclusive use of employed personnel.

6. The activities of restoration of home service, or of food and / or drink collection by the clientele in the establishment by appointment, may be carried out during the establishment's normal opening hours.

12. Measures relating to leisure and entertainment establishments and activities.

1. The activity of discotheques, dance halls and cocktail bars with and without live musical performances, pubs, cyber-cafes, theater cafes, concert cafes and singer cafes is suspended.
2. However, they may carry out restaurant and hospitality activities compatible with their license or authorization, under the conditions and with the time and capacity limitations included in the previous point 11 of this resolution:

- The establishments and premises classified in epigraph 1.2.5 and 2.7 (with the exception of 2.7.6) of the Catalog of public performances, recreational activities, sociocultural activities and public establishments of Law 14/2010, of December 3, of the Generalitat, for public shows, recreational activities and public establishments.
- The establishments of party rooms, discotheques and dance halls, which prove by submitting a responsible declaration to the city council, that the dance floors are occupied by tables and chairs, keeping the capacity and distances provided in the measures established for catering and hotel establishments.

In all these establishments and premises, consumption will always be seated at the table, and dancing or karaoke performances and sporadic or amateur singing performances are not allowed, professional performances by musical groups and disc jockey are allowed, ensuring sufficient ventilation, and a safety distance of at least 2 meters between musicians and the public in the case of singers and wind instruments.

13. Measures related to recreational activities of chance.

Establishments and spaces dedicated to recreational and gambling activities are allowed to open, among which are included, gambling casinos, bingo halls, arcades for slot machines, gambling halls, tombolas and cyber halls, observing the schedule. of closing established for the establishments of restoration and hotel trade, as well as the rest of the measures, capacity and limitations foreseen for these establishments.

14. Measures related to the consumption of tobacco and similar products.

1. Smoking may not be allowed on public roads, terraces, beaches or other outdoor spaces, when the minimum interpersonal distance of at least 2 meters cannot be respected.
2. This limitation will also be applicable for the use of any other device for inhaling tobacco, water pipes, hookahs or similar, including electronic cigarettes or vaping in outdoor or closed spaces.

24. Measures related to swimming pools, beaches and spas.

1. Swimming pools for recreational use, hotel pools, tourist accommodation and urbanization pools, as well as spas, must respect the 75% limit of their capacity both in terms of access and recreational practice.
2. The changing rooms and showers may be used at 50% of their capacity.

3. Access to the beaches is allowed to walk or do physical and sporting activities in the open air, maintaining physical distancing and hygiene and prevention measures, always within the limitation to freedom of movement and mobility that may be established.

Sixth.- Efficacy and validity.

This resolution will take effect from 00:00 hours on May 9, 2021, until 00:00 hours on May 24, 2021.