The President of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, announced today during his press conference the intention of the government to request a sixth and final two-week extension to the state of alarm which would bring us to June 21st. President Sanchez also confirmed that all powers will be returned to the Regional governments when they enter Phase 3. This will allow regions in phase three the ability to speed up or slow down their de-escalation. Up until now each phase has had a duration of a minimum of two weeks however with this new ruling each region can lower the required minimum and some regions will end the State of alarm before June 21st.

Ayamonte is taking part in the tourism campaign Huelva beaches a safe destination. The beaches in Ayamonte, Isla Cristina, Islantilla, Lepe, Cartaya and Punta Umbria all form part of the Western Coast Consortium whose main objective with this campaign is to guarantee the safety and transmit the confidence to the visitors of the local beaches. And in doing so will help reactivate one of the most important activities in our economy.

The Mayor of Ayamonte, Natalia Santos, highlighted the importance of this initiative and said that the beaches in Ayamonte will be adapted to ensure the new measures are put in place to ensure the safety of residents and tourists alike.

Here are the rules of use and recommendations for the beach:

• Respect the access signs to the beach.
• Maintain the safety distance of 2 metres between groups.
• No sharing of objects like games supplies with other groups on the beach.
• Collect all solid waste in tightly closed bags before depositing it in containers to avoid contagion.
• Avoid contact with surfaces like railings, handrails, litter bins and benches.
• Do not play group games that put people in contact.

There has been a total of 96 new cases declared today and the total confirmed cases is 239,228. The number of deaths has now reached 27,127 (+2), which is 39 (+2)new deaths reported today, which is the number for the last 7 days.

Meanwhile in Andalusia, the number of confirmed cases is now 12,688 (+16) of which 6,261 (+1) have needed hospitalisation and 770 (+0) have needed intensive care. As of 00.00 today there are 99 (-30) patients confirmed with Covid-19 in hospital and 34 (+1) of those are in intensive care.

In Andalusia with 13,323 (+66) 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	10	0
Cadiz	10	6
Cordoba	15	8
Granada	22	7
Huelva	4	1
Jaen	7	3
Malaga	17	3
Seville	14	6

There have been 1,419 (+2) deaths in Andalusia (Malaga 287 (+1), Jaen 182 (+0) , Granada 287 (+1), Cordoba 117 (+0) , Cadiz 157 (+0), Seville 286 (+0), Almeria 54 (+1) , Huelva 48 (+0). In Seville there are 2,468 cases and 1,203 of those required hospitalization with 150 in intensive care. There have been 286 deaths while 2,629 have recovered.

In Huelva there are 404 cases, No new cases today, 221 have been hospitalized with 30 in intensive care. No new deaths were reported today, so total stays at 48 people. The good news is 464 have recovered from the virus.