276 LEGAL IMPACTS OF COVID-19 IN THE TOURISM INDUSTRY this article concur; or d) Situations of shortages of basic necessities. The Government will inform the Congress of Deputies of the declaration of the State of Alarm and of the decrees it issues during its validity. It will also provide any required information. By the declaration of the State of Alarm, all the Civil Authorities of Public Administration of affected territories, members of the Police Bodies of the Autonomous Communities and the Local Corporations, as well as other officials and workers at their service, will be under direct orders from the competent Authority, as necessary for the protection of people, property and places, being able to impose extraordinary services for their duration or nature (Art. 9). Article 10 provides for sanctions for cases of non-compliance or resistance to orders from the competent authority. The following article lists some possible measures to be agreed upon, namely: a) limiting the movement or permanence of people or vehicles at specific times and places; or condition them to the fulfilment of certain requirements; b) practice temporary requisitions of all kinds of goods and impose mandatory social benefits; c) intervene and temporarily occupy industries, factories, workshops, farms or premises of any nature, exception for private homes, reporting to the Ministries concerned; d) limit or ration the use of services or the consumption of basic necessities; and e) issue the necessary orders to ensure the supply of the markets and the operation of the services and production centres of basic necessity products. Furthermore, Article 12 provides for the measures established in the norms for the fight against infectious diseases, the protection of the environment, in the matter of water and forest fires, when it comes to the situations of sections a) and b) of Article 4 (Disasters and epidemics, respectively). On 31 January 2020, the news revealed that a German tourist who was in La Gomera was the first case to test positive for coronavirus in Spain. Then, another case was detected in Palma de Mallorca and, as of 24 February, more cases were detected in the Community of Madrid, Catalonia and the Valencian Community. In early February, some Spaniards who came from Wuhan (China) were confined to the Gómez Ulla Hospital, to spend 14 days in quarantine. On 27 February, the Administrative Litigation Court number 1 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife issued an order ratifying the sanitary measures adopted by the Canary Islands Ministry of Health (Order of 24 February 2020), ordering quarantine in a hotel in Adeje, after verification by the Canary Health Service that a Community citizen from the Italian region of Lombardy had tested positive for
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