The Regional Minister for Justice, José Antonio Nieto, placed the symbollic first stone for the new law courts in Órgiva that will serve the needs of 23 towns and villages in the Alpujarra Granadina.
There are nine municipalities within the province of Granada that have reached or even surpassed 90% of their populations fully vaccinated.
The Junta announced last night that the Costa Tropical and the Alpujarra are now on Level Three, having dropped from Level Four.
The number of municipalities in Granada that have never had one case of Covid-19 since the pandemic began dwindles – now there are only four.
The Mayor of Motril, Luisa García Chamorro, will ask the Junta de Andalucía to ease restrictions in the Southern-Granada Health Area.
Granada has become the province in Spain with the most current covid cases: in the last two weeks the number reached 1,204 per 100,000 inhabitants.
The Seaside Gazette provides news for inland areas of the province of Granada, as well as for the Costa Tropical, so here are the figures for La Alpujarra.