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Walking these days through the narrow streets of the historic center of Tarifa is little less than an impossible obstacle course.

Complying with the

safety distance

and avoiding the mass of tourists who have landed in this enclave of the Cadiz coast known for its beaches (and for its movement) is a utopia.

The same as in the center of Conil de la Frontera, also in Cádiz, formed by a few streets, mostly pedestrian and narrow, and whose population doubles in the summer.

Tarifa, which usually has a population of just over 18,000 people, reaches a

five-fold increase

in the summer months and in Conil, from 23,500 inhabitants it goes to close to 50,000.

That, in any given summer, complicates daily life, but in a pandemic summer it has caused the two municipalities to end up being marked in red as an area of ​​extreme danger of contagion by Covid-19, with a soaring incidence that, in both cases, exceeds

1,000 cases

per 100,000 inhabitants - taking into account, and this is important, its usual population, the registered population - and with its overwhelmed city council and with little means and tools to face a problem that threatens their main livelihood, their livelihood of most of its inhabitants.

In Tarifa, the well-known surfer capital of the south,

90% of the economic activity

depends, directly or indirectly, on tourism. Only between May and June, in this Cádiz municipality more than a thousand jobs have been created in this sector, direct jobs to which should be added the jobs linked in some way. And the same happens in Conil de la Frontera, also in Cádiz, whose population lives, literally, from the summer and from the tourist who at this time arrives in the municipality attracted by its beaches.

Because, with the regulations in hand, the soaring incidence suffered by these localities - there are others, such as Marbella, which are about to exceed a thousand cases - could lead to the closure of all non-essential activity, something that would be, he says without hot cloths the mayor of Tarifa, Francisco Ruiz,

"a catastrophe

.

"

In Conil, its councilor, Juan Bermúdez, is no less forceful and speaks of a "disaster" without palliative if that scenario of economic closure were to occur.

The two coincide in rejecting that measure, the same thing that the Junta de Andalucía does at least for now, but they demand

help

to deal with an evolution of the pandemic in their municipalities that is beyond their control.

With the ghost of the bolt, both in Conil and in Tarifa, their municipalities have stretched the regulations as far as imaginable to force, for example, the use of masks in their historic centers and have redoubled efforts to fight against

the bottle

and monitor nightlife, which many point to as the origin of these spectacular outbreaks. The two mayors have issued sides calling for extreme caution and appealing to personal responsibility, but "our powers go where they go," says Juan Bermúdez, mayor of Conil de la Frontera.

With

local police officers

greatly diminished by retirements and the replacement rate - in Conil there are barely 40 agents -, to confront the large bottles, which are changing places with pressure, and which generate huge concentrations of young people without security measures in the In most cases, it is tremendously difficult.

"We do what we can," emphasizes the councilor from Tarif.

More police reinforcements, both from the Civil Guard and the Autonomous Police, massive vaccinations, that the mask is really mandatory, limiting meetings in public spaces or, as Bermúdez requests, the implementation of the

curfew

in municipalities with a high incidence such as his are some of the demands that have been put on the table.

All this to avoid a total catastrophe, because the damage is already being felt in these municipalities in which, their mayors emphasize, the incidence that is officially registered is not the real one.

If the population that lives in them right now were taken into account, in Conil for example, says its mayor, it would be a

third

.

In this, the Andalusian Government agrees with them and this very Tuesday the spokesman, Elías Bendodo, rejected that these municipalities are going to be closed, taking into account what the experts themselves have advised, that is, to

relativize

the incidence rate due to their floating population .

Of course, he opened the door to "regulate leisure," although he did not specify what this exactly means, and ruled out, as the president of the Board, Juanma Moreno, did later, the curfew.

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