The Viveiro street market practically returned to normal this Sunday after 20 months of the pandemic Xaime Ramallal
Street vendors and customers filled the esplanade of the variant this Sunday in a market that recovered 100% of the stalls
21 Nov 2021 . Updated at 7:20 p.m.
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Although the masks to protect against covid continue to cover most of the faces even outdoors, the expressions of joy were easy to perceive in the Viveiro street market, which this Sunday recovered 100% of the stalls after twenty months of pandemic. "Because all the stalls are down, more people come down, because when there are only four, they say: 'There's nothing,' and they don't come down any more," explained Ezequiel Manzano, a 25-year-old from Viveira who has been selling underwear, such as socks and panties, since he was 18. in Viveiro, Foz, Xove, San Cibrao, Cariño or Ferreira do Valadouro. “You have to work!” he smiled. After three months in which they could not work because there were no markets, starting up again was difficult. «The Viveiro market fell a lot due to the virus. Let us hope that we do not relapse again as is happening abroad, it is better to be safe », he warned. 
Ezequiel Manzano, a 25-year-old freelancer from Viveira, trusts that "we will not relapse" due to covid so as not to have to return to the restrictions that in 2020 had street vendors three months without working due to the prohibition of markets XAIME F. RAMALLAL
Rachid Housni, from Focen, who was born in Morocco, has been selling women's clothing in markets in Viveiro, Foz, Burela, San Cibrao or Vegadeo for 25 years XAIME F. RAMALLAL
Nearby, Rachid Housni, 45, recalled the worst times of a pandemic that in March 2020 turned society and the economy upside down, and that still generates uncertainty and mistrust. “We have had a very bad time. Some people tell me: 'It's the first time I've come to the market in two years because it scared me,'” confesses this Moroccan-born Foca native who has been self-employed for 25 years. He sells women's clothing. "As the market becomes more crowded, there is more atmosphere and more life," he explained hopefully. He regrets that the one in Burela, which before the coronavirus was one of the strongest in A Mariña, has been left “deserted” due to the change in location. “Where he is now no one goes,” he laments.
Burelense Francisco Salazar highlights that having a physical store (Zapaco, in Burela), in addition to the mobile stall that he sets up at fairs, has helped him cope with the break due to the pandemic Xaime Ramallal
Collecting the cessation of activity and being able to postpone the payment of mortgages has helped Francisco Salazar survive in this time, a Burelan with an itinerant shoe store and another physical one (Zapaco, in Burela). "Having more stalls, more people are attracted," he said at the counter where he offered pairs of shoes, slippers, boots and ankle boots for between 15 and 30 euros.
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