COVID update 12-03-2021

This weekend marks 12 months since the start of the pandemic in our region of Spain. I probably do not need to remind you that on the evening of Friday 13th March videos were being posted on Facebook of police driving around Vera announcing through their speakers “Go home, stay home”. On the Saturday morning Pedro Sánchez announced that a lockdown would commence on Sunday and then later on the Saturday afternoon it was brought forward and was in place with immediate effect. Wow, what a year it has been since then! First up to break the boredom was Andrew Shep Pearson entertaining us with his Freddie Mercury impression Andrew Shep pearson and of course Anne Anstey entertained Huerta Nueva from her solarium on a Saturday afternoon singing “Oh this year we’re off to sunny Spain”. I am sure there is some irony in there somewhere! Anne Anstey For many weeks on a nightly basis we applauded our frontline workers and one person per household went to do a weekly shop. Has it all come flooding back? 12 months on and it certainly is not over is it? The vaccinations are slowly starting to roll out and hopefully these will make the light at the end of the tunnel shine larger and brighter. In the meantime all we can do is follow the rules that are in place and then hopefully we will get back to some better sort of normal where we can travel again and see family and friends that we have missed for so long. Anyway, without further waffle from me, with figures from the Junta de Andalucía website, I can tell you that 1 more new case has been recorded in Los Gallardos since yesterday and no more cured cases recorded. As a result of this new case we are now at 241.2 per 100.000 recorded in the last 14 days with 7 cases recorded in the last 14 days and 5 in the last 7. Here are the latest figures for Los Gallardos with yesterday’s figures in (round brackets) and Friday 5th in [square brackets]. Total number of cases 250 (249) [244], cured cases 222 (222) [220], active cases 24 (23) [20], deaths 4 (4) [4] and 241.2 per 100.000 (206.8) [172.3]. Have a good weekend everybody and stay safe.