The use of the rapid test has now arrived in Ayamonte with the nursing home Lerdo de Tejada being the first to be tested. The great news is that both staff and residents all tested negative. The good news continues as the Aprosca Centre was also tested and again both staff and residents all tested negative. The first batches of masks were also distributed this morning by the Guardia Civil, Local police and civil protection services at the bus station to people using public transport. The people who have not stopped working in all this time: the farmers and fruit pickers were also given masks. It is expected that by the end of this week masks will be readily available for the general public from local pharmacies. However, the majority of these masks are hygienic masks which give some level of protection but personally I feel they are more to stop the spread from asymptomatic carriers.

There has been a total of 3,045 new cases declared today and the total confirmed cases is now at 172,541. The number of deaths has now reached 18,056. The number of people who have recovered is 67,504.

Meanwhile in Andalusia there are 10,306 confirmed cases of which 5,054 have needed hospitalisation and 631 have needed intensive care. Andalusia has also found 114 cases where patients have little or no symptoms of Covid19. As of 21.00 yesterday there are 1,662 patients confirmed with Covid-19 in hospital and 358 of those are in intensive care. There have been 836 deaths (Malaga 184, Jaen 111, Granada 180, Cordoba 58, Cadiz 60, Seville 178, Almeria 38, Huelva 27). In Seville there are 2,083 cases and 971 of those required hospitalization with 129 in intensive care. There have been 178 deaths while 294 have been cured.

In Andalusia there have been a total of 836 deaths so far. A total 2,032 patients have now been declared cured.

In Huelva there are 337 cases, this being an increase of 6 new cases today, 177 have been hospitalized with 27 in intensive care. No new deaths were reported today so total remains at 27. The good news is 61 have now been declared cured.