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Calp City Council has allocated a total of 632,636.83 euros in aid to different areas of the city to mitigate the economic impact caused by the pandemic. The aid was provided as part of the Plan Resiste, which considers several lines of subsidies.
In this sense, the first line of aid, aimed at people with fewer resources, has amounted to 282,736 euros, from which 1,101 families have benefited. This was to cover basic needs such as food, hygiene and pharmaceutical products.
Esperanza P.M., a 104-year-old resident of La Saleta de Calp, was the first person to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the city.
Vaccination against the coronavirus began this morning in Calp. Esperanza, born in December 1916, is the oldest person in the old people's home. After her, head of the home, David Barraca, received the vaccine.
During the day, 232 people will be vaccinated, both residents and staff of the old people's home. In the coming weeks, the vaccination will continue in the other two old people's home in the municipality: La Colina and Domus Vi.
Last Saturday, 26 December, the local police of Calp were alerted to a person lying on the ground in La Pinta street without a pulse. The officers on duty went to the scene and started resuscitation efforts on an unconscious woman.
In addition, a patrol car went to the health centre to pick up medical personnel and bring them to the scene, while the bouncer initiated the appropriate protocol.
Calp gave final approval today in a plenary session to the 14 investments that will be financed with a total of 4,178,125 euros from the surplus of the municipal treasury. The proposal of the socialist councillor faction, which proposes to replace these investments with others, was also discussed.
The 2nd Vice President of the Council and Minister of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture, Rubén Martínez Dalmau, met this morning with Mayor Ana Sala and Councillors Paco Avargues and Noelia Císcar to discuss Calp's housing needs.
Calp Municipality has purchased 18 bulletproof vests this year 2020, which together with the waistcoats purchased in the previous two years, will equip the entire workforce with this protective material.
A total of 309 students from IES Ifac participated in the gender violence prevention workshops organised online by the Equality Department.
The workshops were aimed at 4th year secondary school students as well as high school students of science, humanities and social sciences and were made possible thanks to the collaboration with Ifac High School.
The President of the CHJ (Hydrographic Association of the Júcar River), Manuel Alcalde, and the Mayor of Calp, Ana Sala, signed yesterday a protocol of cooperation between the two administrations. The aim of the protocol is to draw up an action plan to solve the important flooding problems around the Calp salt flats, in an area classified as a significant potential risk area by the current Flood Risk Management Plan (approved by Royal Decree 18/2016).
