The Town councils of Ayamonte, Isla Cristina, Lepe, Cartaya and Punta Umbria have made a joint press release regarding the use of beaches as of Monday May 25th when the province of Huelva enters phase 2. The use of the beach and swimming in the sea will not be prohibited neither will it be authorised by the Town councils. Instead they have appealed to the general public to maintain the social distancing and hygienic & protection rules to stop the spread of the virus. As happens every year, June 15th will be when all the planning for the use of the beaches along this coast comes into action with the Safety and rescue measures which this year will be supplement with special actions in the fight against Covid19.

So, my understanding is that basically the Town Halls are asking everyone to be responsible for their actions on the beach as until June 15th they won’t have the safety measures in place. Or if you look at it in a stricter point of view, go to beach, enjoy for walks etc, be responsible and if possible don’t go swimming until June 15th.

There has been a total of 246 new cases declared today and the total confirmed cases is 235,772. The number of deaths has now reached 28,752(+70).

Meanwhile in Andalusia, the number of confirmed cases is now 12,600 (+3) of which 6,230 (+1) have needed hospitalisation and 766 (0) have needed intensive care. As of 00.00 today there are 179 (-18) patients confirmed with Covid-19 in hospital and 49 (-3) of those are in intensive care.

In Andalusia with 12,181 (+100) patients recovered, the hospitals are as follows please note that the total of patients hospitalised includes those in intensive care

Province	Total Hospitalised	Total in Intensive care
Almeria	15	2
Cadiz	27	7
Cordoba	22	10
Granada	33	7
Huelva	4	3
Jaen	26	9
Malaga	30	4
Seville	22	7

There have been 1,391 (+2) deaths in Andalusia (Malaga 278 (+0), Jaen 179 (+0) , Granada 282 (+2), Cordoba 114 (+4) , Cadiz 153 (+0), Seville 282 (+0), Almeria 52 (+0) , Huelva 48 (+0). In Seville there are 2,448 cases and 1,203 of those required hospitalization with 149 in intensive care. There have been 282 deaths while 2,235 have recovered.

In Huelva there are 403 cases, No new cases today, 220 have been hospitalized with 30 in intensive care. No new deaths were reported today, so total stays at 48 people. The good news is 447 have recovered from the virus.