By Cathy Elelman • Published: 20 Mar 2020 • 8:51
SOLIDARITY: “United we will overcome Covid-19”, says Almeria city Mayor. CREDIT: Ramon Fernandez-Pacheco Monterreal Facebook @ramonfpm
RESIDENTS of the El Puche district of Almeria confined to their homes like the rest of the country by the coronavirus state of alarm went out onto to their balconies to show their appreciation for the job the Local Police force is doing patrolling the city streets. https://www.facebook.com/ramonfpm/videos/604664580115739/?t=22 A video posed on social media by Almeria Mayor Ramon Fernandez-Pacheco, shows people shouting out words of encouragement, cheering and clapping as patrols go by. “In this way, united, we will overcome Covid-19”, the Mayor commented.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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