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Galicia begins a "gradual" and "measured" de-escalation.

The president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, announced this Monday that, throughout the community, on Monday, March 1, university classes will resume and starting on Saturday 27, the shopping centers will also reopen on weekends .

Until now they only worked from Monday to Friday.

"The restrictions worked," Feijóo assured in an appearance before the media after the meeting of the clinical committee of experts that evaluates the evolution of the pandemic.

Even so, the president of the Xunta has also guaranteed that "if we have to go back, we will return", before announcing other changes that are established according to the indicators of each area.

These modifications refer to

the municipal confinements, the reopening of the hotel industry and the meetings of people who do not live together

.

The 17 councils with an

incidence of more than 500 cases per 100,000

inhabitants in the last 14 days will continue to be closed and with the restrictions in force until now, including the prohibition of meetings between non-cohabitants.

2.6% of the population is in these circumstances.

The relief of the limitations begins to be perceived in the

107 councils that are between 250 and 500 cases

per 100,000 inhabitants.

On this second level, the terraces are allowed to reopen with half capacity until six in the afternoon and meetings of up to four non-living people.

In addition, the municipal closure no longer governs, but its residents can move to other localities that are on the same threshold.

To this group, where 44% of the population lives, all the councils of Coruña, Ferrol and Pontevedra belong.

But for these there is an added condition: due to their level of sanitary occupation, they can leave the council, but not from each area.

In the

189 councils with an incidence of less than 250

, where 54% of the population lives, mobility is also authorized among those of that threshold.

In them it is allowed, in addition to the terraces (with 50% capacity), the reopening of the interior of the hotel business with 30% capacity, and meetings of up to four people who are not living together.

In this situation are the areas of Lugo, Ourense, Santiago and Vigo where they will also reopen, gyms, swimming pools and sports facilities.

The president of the Xunta has justified this reduction of the restrictions in the decrease of the indicators in the spread of the pandemic.

As he explained, if on January 30 there were 779 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the Galician territory, at present the figure is reduced to 236, below the maximum risk level, located at 250.

From now on, as Feijóo has detailed, and to better react to the variations, the experts will give greater importance to the 7-day incidence, which now stands at 86 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

In addition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has assured that

the British strain is already predominant in that community

.

Specifically, although it has not provided the time period to which it refers, it has estimated that it is responsible for 63% of infections in that community.

With regard to the dates in which greater displacements are foreseen, the president of the Xunta has advanced that

the bridge of March 19 and Easter "will not be as we want

.

"

But he has shown his "hope" in the latest advances, although he has insisted on asking for caution and responsibility so as not to reverse the relaxation of restrictions.

Nüñez Feijóo recalled that the autonomous confinement is still in force.

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