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The various outbreaks of co-ronavirus patients in both Spain and Andorra have not prevented employment fo-

recasts in the tourist establishments of the Hotel Union of Andorra (UHA) from being maintained compared to last weekend. In fact, the average forecast is higher than last week ri-sing 3.16 points to 58.02%.

In this sense, the director of the UHA, Jordi Pujol, stressed that «we have not noticed the effect of regrowth at reserve levels», while maintaining the hope that the final data for Monday will correspond and we can say that at the moment they have not affected us ”.

And it is that, although an acti-

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33 Tourists on Avinguda Meritxell.

The regrowth does not affect hotel bookings for the weekendThe Hotel Union says it has no record of last-minute cancellations for today or tomorrow

The average employment forecast is 58% despite strong restrictions in Catalonia

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vity of 54.23% for today and one of 61.81% for tomorrow is estimated, the hotel sector is not clear if these figures will be reached. Much less if a positive variation will be achieved as in the last weekend, which was 9.23% higher than the expected em-ployment figures. For this weekend, the highest occupancy is expected in Encamp (71.83%), followed by An-dorra la Vella (67.22%) and La Massa-na (66.78%). The lowest would be in Sant Julià de Lòria (33.63%)

«It’s clear that if the regrowth go-es further, at some point we’ll noti-ce,» Pujol predicted. And they are going there. For now, the arrival of Catalan tourists could be complica-ted, as the Generalitat asked almost half of the population to stay at ho-me and imposed restrictive mea-sures to curb the pandemic. This

was announced by the Minister of the Presidency of Catalonia, Merit-xell Budó, who specified that they would affect the entire region of Se-grià, some municipalities in the re-gion of La Noguera and the entire area of Barcelona. At the moment, compulsory confinement has not yet been imposed, although the Ca-talan Ministry of Health and the Mi-nistry of the Interior have also deter-mined the importance of limiting social contact and leaving only out of necessity. For example, to go to work or to buy essential products, an issue that would complicate the arrival of tourists from these areas in the Principality over the next 15 days.

INCREASE IN INFECTED / While in Cata-lonia 1,111 new positives have been detected, in Andorra the figure rises to 25. A significant figure if we take into account that the percentage of infected population is higher in the Principality. Specifically, it is 0.03% of the total population, as opposed to 0.014% in Catalonia.

From the Ministry of Health, however, they found that these are patients who are part of the same source of infection in the construc-tion of Escaldes-Engordany and that all of them have mild symptoms or are asymptomatic. That is why epi-demiological surveys of all those af-fected are still ongoing and the Go-vernment is confident that the re-growth is under control. H

The Ministry of Health rules out some acts of the major festivals of the parishes for safety

33 The Ministry of Health is studying which holiday activiti-es can be carried out this summer and which can be adjusted to sa-fety measures to prevent possible new infections. Although the pro-grams have not yet been formali-zed, several municipalities have already announced some of the events that will be suspended, for example, Sant Julià de Lòria will have to celebrate without para-des, giants or the ball Cerdà or la Passa. In addition, the concerts will end at 9pm and there will be no bars. What has been preserved

so far is the Marratxa dance, alt-hough adapted to keep distances. In the same vein, this weekend Ca-nillo will celebrate its main festi-val without night events and with activities that will not be oversi-zed, such as children or sports. While from the Comú d’Encamp it was announced yesterday that the main festival mass and the fi-reworks display will be held. As for Andorra la Vella and Escaldes-En-gordany, they are still studying the possibilities which, they say, could change according to «the events that are happening».

«At the moment, we have not noticed the effect of the regrowth at the reserve level. We hope they don’t affect us «

Jordi PujolDIRECTOR OF THE HOTEL UNION

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During the ordinary session of the Council of the Mu-nicipality of Encamp that took place yesterday mor-

ning in the Pas de la Casa, the mem-bers of the Administration appro-ved the reduction of the salary of the Consul General, and the coun-cillors by a 10 %. The money invol-ved in this reduction in salary will go to the social fabric of the parish. According to the Consul General of Encamp, Laura Mas, «we determi-ned that the item should be used for social affairs that we have in the pa-rish. These are grants, for example, for summer activities and for fami-lies. We understand that when scho-ol starts, we will also need to give more help in this style for everythi-ng related to school activity, nur-sery schools and all community ser-vices that affect families and are for children. In fact, in the last commis-sion on social affairs, much more so-cial aid has been given than is nor-mally given. «

In reference to the measure, the two opposition groups, Agrupa-ció Encampadana and Partit Soci-aldemòcrata + Independents were in favour. David Ríos, councillor of the PS, added that “we already ma-de this donation voluntarily last month. Since the municipality had not decided anything we made a vo-luntary contribution of 10% of our salaries. The PS + Independents as a political party in all the parishes of the country where there is repre-sentation approved, in a steering committee, to reduce our salary in this proportion voluntarily if there was no other agreement that would oblige us. If the municipality had not made this decision, we would have continued to give 10% volun-tarily.

1.5 MILLION TO THE SOLIDARITY FUND / On the other hand, the members of the Comú encampada approved the do-nation of one and a half million eu-ros to the solidarity fund of the Go-vernment in the context of the he-alth crisis of the Covid-19 with the abstention of the Social Democrats. According to the Consul General,

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33 Ordinary session of the Encamp town council held this Friday in Pas de la Casa.

The Municipality of Encamp will reduce the salary of its members by 10%The corporation approves a donation of one and a half million euros to the solidarity fund of the Government for the Covid-19

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Rascagnères recalls that tobacco moves 100 million a year

Given the fact that the French National Assembly approved an amendment the day before yesterday that could le-ad to a reduction in the amount of to-bacco cartons that the French could introduce in their country, the Con-sul General of the Commune of En-camp, Jean Michel Rascagnères explai-ned that the corporation does not have

an official position on this announce-ment but highlighted the economic importance of the tobacco industry in the country and especially in the Pas de la Casa. In this sense, he predicted that with the acceptance of this mea-sure, Andorra would be affected given that the business generates around 100 million euros. He added, howe-ver, that this decision is not final and that, in a normal scenario, it would be approved before the end of the sum-mer. He also emphasized that the Eu-ropean Union would prefer to ensure that «the freedom of movement of go-ods is preserved». H

The Consul General believes that limiting exports will affect the country

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«From the PS we already made this voluntary contribution of 10% of our salaries last month»

David RíosCOUNSELLOR OF THE PS

«approval had to be made to carry out the measure. We are waiting for the latest intervention report. We need to get that money out of other games. At the time the report is ma-de and validated, and we endow this item with a million and a half euros, we will make the transfer to the so-lidarity account effective. « Ríos, ex-plained that the abstention “was de-cided for a reason of form and a rea-son of substance. The fact is that the consuls either in a meeting of con-suls or in an informal meeting de-cided that this contribution should be made to the Government and this contribution is very important for the Municipality of Encamp. It’s a million and a half euros that, sin-ce we don’t have it, are most likely to be owed. The question of form is

very simple, this decision has not been passed by committee, so we ha-ve not been able to discuss it in com-mittee or governing board and we have found that we had to make the decision in the Council of Common. We understand that this is not the usual way to make a decision as im-portant as this that affects the finan-ces of our community so much.

As Mas explained, the amount of 1.5 million euros that will be contri-buted to the Executive will have re-percussions on the citizens and he considered that it is an “act of soli-darity”, since it is necessary to have into account that the Government, only between the months of May and June, has contributed a total of 2.8 million euros to the population of the parish that has been affected by an ERTO. However, the PS consi-dered that this money may not end up affecting the inhabitants of En-camp, as the Social Democratic for-mation is in favour of the corporati-on distributing this money directly to the public.

Finally, during the Common Co-uncil, it was reported on the amend-ment of the Communal Finance Act. According to Mas, a job has been do-ne for almost three years. We had to adapt the law of communal finan-ces to the new regulations and the-refore, what has been achieved is to add other points within this bill as proposed by the company OCPS which is the one who has advised the changes. H