The Leader Newspaper
Puig calls for mobility to be limited over Easter
With Easter a little over 5 weeks away we are hoping that the various levels of government have all learnt their lessons regarding freedom of movement during the holiday period, after the absolute carnage that we saw following the Christmas and the Three Kings breaks.
With the general public at liberty to travel at will, there is no doubt that the dramatic spread of coronavirus we saw during January was largely attributable, particularly in the southern Costa Blanca and Costa Calida, to the mass exodus of city dwellers to the coast. It is only now that we are beginning to see a drop in the number of infections following many weeks in which the pandemic has had the upper hand.