The City Council has already disinfected the accesses and common areas of more than 180 buildings

Benidorm City Council, through the Municipal Street Cleaning Service, has already disinfected the accesses and common areas of more than 180 buildings in the city, according to data transferred today by the Councilor for Street Cleaning, José Ramón González de Zárate, who recalled that this action is being carried out "at no direct cost to the community of owners" and is being developed "in the morning and afternoon by four brigades." Since this service was announced last Thursday, April 2, “more than 800 requests have already been received through the email fccbenidorm@gmail.com and the free telephone numbers of the Collective Help Network (#RAC): 900 701 322 and 900 10 12 15.

De Zárate has indicated that these disinfection tasks, a preventive measure against coronavirus, are carried out in "accesses and areas of common use that are still open to the use and transit of neighbors" such as corridors, arcades, exterior doors, telephones and mailboxes, elevators and litter bins or other furniture. The interior of buildings, green areas and leisure areas such as gardens, swimming pools, sports courts, children's games, etc. are excluded from this disinfection.

Once the service is requested, access to each community must be provided by the custodian or a neighbor, who will accompany the brigade while the tasks are carried out.

As indicated by the mayor, "this service will continue to be provided during Easter, including bank holidays, in order to complete the disinfection of all requesting communities as soon as possible, maintaining three brigades in the morning and a fourth in the afternoon shift ”.

For his part, the mayor, Toni Pérez, explained that “when acting we are giving priority to those buildings and communities in which we have evidence that essential services and / or emergency workers reside, and that consequently they are more exposed, such as toilets, police, supermarket employees, etc. " In the same way, through this service the tourist apartments that the City Council and Hosbec have made available to the health personnel of the Villajoyosa Regional Hospital, the Benidorm Clinic Hospital, the IMED Levante and all the health centers of the city are being disinfected. city, where 24 professionals are currently staying. To these will be added in the next days nine more toilets.

In addition, he pointed out that "it is important that there is coordination on the part of the communities when requesting this service, so as not to duplicate the requests, since in some cases they are even reaching us through three channels: farm administration, custodians and neighbors." An informative sticker has been placed on all buildings that have already been disinfected.

The mayor recalled that “even before the state of alarm was decreed, the City Council had already been applying special cleaning and disinfection measures in public spaces; efforts that have been redoubled in recent weeks 24 hours a day, paying special attention to essential buildings and facilities open to the public such as hospital and health centers, security and essential services, as well as public access roads to supermarkets, pharmacies, ATMs, banks, gas stations, etc., reaching every neighborhood daily. ” These daily tasks also include the disinfection of urban furniture and public buildings.