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The Civil Guard has arrested a 62-year-old man for filming a video that was uploaded to social media in which he said that "four thousand residents of Madrid" were moving to Torrevieja to spread the coronavirus.

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The man claims to have just arrived in Torrevieja from Madrid managing to bypass the restrictions of the state of alarm and that, despite being infected with Covid-19, he has arrived especially to spread the coronavirus in the city over Easter holidays.

The detainee is, indeed, a Madrilenian, but it seems that he has been a resident in Torrevieja since last January, coming into the town well before the state of alarm was introduced on March 13.

Following his arrest, officers said that he only claimed to be joking and that he is sorry, although he has still been charged with a hate crime.

However health sources have said that the 61-year-old detainee suffered frequent attacks of schizophrenia, so it is believed that In the video, which quickly spread on social networks (although it has now been erased), the detainee is sitting on a sofa, stating that he had just arrived in Torrevieja together with another "4,000 people from Madrid" to spread the coronavirus pandemic.

He insults, and is very disparaging, to the people of Torrevieja, something which has generated great annoyance in the city and fear among its residents, who have asked that the perpetrator be identified.

Among the statements made in the video, which is about 40 seconds long, he claims that recent arrivals have devastated the stocks of a supermarket next door to the central bus station, in order that the people of Torrevieja would starve.

On social networks, there was a great deal of outrage at his comments which saw the identification of his home, as well as aggressive responses at the individual himself and against the possible movements into the area by people from other municipalities.

Since the detainee claimed in his video to be infected with Covid-19, he has been arrested and is undergoing medical tests to confirm or deny this claim. He is currently being held by the Torrevieja Civil Guard.

The 61-year-old is said to suffer frequent attacks of schizophrenia

Orihuela offers 36 empty houses in Villamartin for people asymptomatic with Covid19

Which non-essential service workers can return to work on Monday?

The properties are understood to be at Calle Otela, Pau 8, Villamartin

JOS… AIX, THE DEPUTY MAYOR OF ORIHUELA, held a video conference with Mamen Peris, the Ciudadanos deputy in Las Cortes Valencianas this morning, to consider some of the measures that can be carried out by the different Administrations as an effective response to the COVID-19 crisis.

One of the main items discussed was the request from the Prime Minister at the weekend to the autonomous communities for a list of accommodation in which the can isolate those people who are asymptomatic with coronavirus.

Aix said that "the Generalitat has a block of thirty-six homes located in Villamartin, Orihuela Costa, understood to be at Calle Otela, Pau 8, where this type of individual could be housed with the maximum medical guarantees. They could also be used by medical personnel, who currently shoulder a higher risk than the rest of the populationî. He said that these apartments are in a strategic location.

Peris, who is also the spokesperson for Ciudadanos in the Infrastructure and Housing Commission, will make the offer at the meeting of the commission scheduled for today and will also request, from Minister MartÌnez Dalmau, precise information on the number of autonomously owned homes, the distribution by municipalities and their current status.

"These homes can be part of the solution to the request made by the Central Government, especially in those municipalities that lack adequate public facilities and where there are not enough hotel beds. This Monday, many employees in the non-essential services sectors, whose activities were suspended by the government as part of the measures of lockdown, will be allowed to venture back into their places of employment, although the Ministry of Health has asked for extreme precautions calling for the continuation of social distancing

After a two week interval, those workers considered non-essential may now return to their activities, as the Government reactivates those tasks that cannot be carried out by teleworking.

For the most part the relaxation will be in the industrial and construction sectors, with more than four million people expected to return to work.

Some non-public facing services that were closed on March 30, such as gestorÌas, management companies that deal with bureaucratic paperwork and tax returns for their clients, will also reopen.

Thus, workers in the industrial and construction sectors, which encompass more than four million people, will have to return to their jobs.

However the Minister of Finance and government spokesperson, MarÌa Jes˙s Montero , has said that, despite the fact that many nonessential service workers may be returning to work, confinement will continue to be "fully effective" for the remainder.

Keep safe and we will see you all again when we have beaten the virus. At the moment we are closed until the end of April

As such you will only be able to go out onto the streets to go to work, in the event you cannot carry out teleworking, to buy food, to the pharmacy, to tobacconists or to newsagents.

The Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has announced that the Government will distribute ten million masks during the next week as a complementary security measure for those people who will be returning to work.

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