News from Salobrena, costa tropical, Granada
Salobreña Town Hall has acquired 120, Covid-19 test kits for controlling possible contagion within the Policía Local, which should arrive next week. The twenty members of the police force will be tested once a week.
The Guardia Civil in Salobreña have taken it upon themselves to take food supplies out to a couple living in a cortijo three kilometres away.
Salobreña Town Hall has closed three of the entrances to town, leaving the last one, the Pontanilla one, controlled by the Policía Local.
Salobreña has suspended its weekly, household-junk-collection service for the duration of the lock down, which presently finishes on the 11th of next month. Normal domestic, rubbish collection continues as before.
The Guardia Civil arrested three youths for allegedly breaking into the Miguel de Cervantes junior school in Molvízar.
This time the accident occurred in Salobreña around 10.00h yesterday morning on the N-340 and involved a car, as well.
Salosolidaridad is a volunteer organisation made up of some 50 members who are doing their part during the lock down, buying food and delivering it to those who need it.
Two Chinese residents of Salobreña, Pinwei Zhou and Junli Xia, who run a business there, have donated masks and rubber gloves, etc to the Policía Local.
The Mayor of Salobreña has warned that people are leaving the big cities and heading to the coast to take residence in the holiday homes to weather the health crisis.
Salobreña Town Hall has published a project scope statement for putting up for bidding the running of the mini bus station.