• Tourism.The Corpus Bridge will test the safety of Andalusian beaches

The Corpus Bridge will become an authentic acid test for Andalusian beaches starting this Thursday, after the autonomous government decrees freedom of movement between provinces once the entire community is already in phase 3 of de-escalation.

The mass exodus is guaranteed at least on the route that connects Seville with the beaches of Cádiz and Huelva , where many Sevillians have a second residence that they have not been able to visit since the state of alarm was decreed. But also the beaches of the Mediterranean coast (Malaga, Granada and Almería) are preparing to receive the first wave of visitors who will find themselves with limited capacity and distance measures.

This authentic stress test comes, however, when the coastal municipalities have barely had time to present their contingency plans and when the three thousand beach guards that the Board will hire to reinforce the municipal services have not yet joined. They will do so predictably on Monday, June 15, which is when the beach season officially begins and all services are activated.

The Andalusian Government announced last Tuesday that it would assign agents from the Attached Unit (known as the Autonomous Police) to collaborate in tasks of surveillance and access control, although this reinforcement, with 200 'services' planned, will be testimonial taking into account that Andalusia has 800 kilometers of coastline. In any case, the festive bridge will serve to test the behavior of the population and the response of the devices before the expected arrival of tourism from outside the community.

Chiclana is ahead

Most of the city councils in the province of Cádiz hope to get around the bridge as they can as they are concentrated in the high holiday season, but there are exceptions and municipalities like Chiclana de la Frontera already have all their capacity and surveillance systems working.

In fact, the Chiclana City Council delivered its Contingency Plan to the Andalusian Government at the end of May and has put into operation a mobile application with which it is possible to check the level of occupancy of its three beaches in real time, all of them segmented by zones, up to 45. A color code (green, orange and red) shows the occupancy percentage, from lowest to highest. When the beach in question reaches the red level, it will no longer be able to receive more visitors.

For its part, the Chipiona City Council approved this Wednesday its Beach Contingency Plan, while the delegation of the area has already begun the work of delimiting spaces for the use and enjoyment of the beaches of the town to adapt them to the new normal.

This delimitation will be established on the beaches of Cruz del Mar, Regla and La Laguna up to the Las Irlandesas area, starting with the Regla beach, within works that will culminate this Sunday on this beach to continue with the others starting from of Monday. There will be markers parallel to the sea and perpendicular "so that families know where they can be located".

The spaces have been calculated for a family of approximately four members, so "if more people gather, they must occupy another place, since otherwise the spaces enabled for transit between plots would be cut off."

In this sense, the Beaches delegation reports that the distance between plots will be approximately five meters, both on the sides and in the front or rear. In the delimitation it has been calculated according to an average high water, so there will be a space of about six meters that cannot be occupied and that will be used for the transit of people. The plots for placing umbrellas will be about one hundred meters wide, separated from each other by pedestrian accesses. In total, there will be up to fifty accesses to the Chipiona beaches .

For its part, Rota, another of the Cadiz municipalities that most Sevillians usually host on its beaches, has stipulated that its Contingency Plan states that the maximum capacity of the beaches will be just over 64,000 people, a figure calculated to guarantee "the necessary social distancing both at sea and on the beach itself ".

Drones in Punta Umbría

On the coast of Huelva, Punta Umbría is one of the preferred destinations for the inhabitants of the capital and for Sevillians. The City Council has divided its almost 14 kilometers of beach into seven different areas and has established a capacity of 108,032 people, taking into account the high tide. Likewise, the capacity can be controlled from the common application of the Tourism Consortium of the West Coast of Huelva , according to Europa Press.

In the most crowded beach accesses there will be a double walkway, to avoid the comings and goings. Accesses are already being regulated, so that users comply with all the recommendations. And the surveillance of social distance will be reinforced with a drone with voice, which will alert of possible infractions of the regulations.

Given the importance of cleaning, the City Council of Punta Umbría has indicated that it especially reinforces this section with the incorporation of a machine with shovels to aerate the sand by 15 centimeters, promoting its disinfection, which will operate every day from 05:00 so that the toilet is complete before opening.

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