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This morning I noticed an article on the La Voz de Almería site. It was the 13th part in a series of articles about the history of Almería.

The first in the series of articles was published in September 2020. Here is a link to the first article in the series.

I will be publishing Google translations of all the articles on the site in due course.

I have also added a new category of stories called Almería History. I have created a link in the main menu of the site so people will be able to view a list of all of the articles all in one place (once they are published of course).

Read More for a Google translation of this first article in the series..

This is the rolling coronavirus story for Friday 1 January 2021

Happy New Year!

There is not much coronavirus news today. So nothing to publish. No doubt things will be back to normal tomorrow.

The article here on the La Voz de Almería site has information about a yellow alert for windy weather today.

Read More for a Google translation of the article.

This is the rolling coronavirus story for Thursday 31 December 2020

Stats for that last 24 hours -160 more cases and 1 more death

https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/3/provincia/206771/almeria-despide-el-ano-de-la-covid-160-contagios-y-un-fallecido-mas

Google translation:

Almería says goodbye to the year of Covid: 160 infections and one more deceased

The data for this last day of the year are not good

A few hours before ending this atypical year, a 2020 to forget, Almería once again exceeds 150 infections by coronavirus and the pandemic is still more than present in the province, in which a new death in the last 24 hours must be lamented .

The data for this last day of the year are not good: Andalusia says goodbye to 2020 with the highest number of Covid infections in December (1,714 cases). In Almería, these rise to 160, 20 more than the day before.

Cádiz is the province that adds the most infections with 363, followed by Malaga with 346 and Seville with 289. The rest of the provinces account for less than 200 cases: Granada with 179, Jaén with 167, Almería with 160, Córdoba with 130 and Huelva with 80.

Almería ends the year exceeding the barrier of 21,500 infections by Covid-19.

Deaths

Almería adds a new death, a common trend in this December, in which there have only been three days in which no deaths have been reported due to Covid-19. A total of 289 people with coronavirus have lost their lives in the province since the start of the pandemic, last March.

The 23 deaths in Andalusia notified this Thursday by the Board's Health Ministry are six more than those registered the day before, although significantly lower than the 41 on Christmas Eve.

Seville, with eleven deaths, is the province that registers the most deaths on this day, followed by Cádiz, Córdoba and Jaén with three, and Almería, Granada and Málaga add one death each. Huelva is the only province without deaths on the last day of the year.

According to the daily report of the Andalusian Regional Government Health Council, there are currently 84 hospitalizations in Almería, of which 26 belong to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

A total of 18,460 people have already overcome the disease, after adding the 55 new cured this Thursday.

Sprouts

During the last week, 57 outbreaks have been declared in Andalusia, amounting to a total of 375 cases. In the case of the Almeria province there have been 10 new outbreaks that add 114 infections distributed in the Poniente Health District (five outbreaks of 7, 4, 7, 7 and 6 positive) and Almería Health District (five outbreaks of 5, 22, 9 , 10 and 37 infections).

From last week 13 outbreaks are still active in Almería.

Cumulative stats from the Almería 360 site

This is the rolling coronavirus story for Wednesday 30 December 2020

Stats for that last 24 hours - 140 more cases and 1 more death

https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/3/provincia/206707/almeria-duplica-los-positivos-del-ultimo-dia-y-suma-otra-muerte-por-coronavirus

Google translation:

Almería doubles the positives of the last day and adds another death from coronavirus

The deceased is a resident of the capital under the age of 70

Almería doubles the positives of the last day on New Year's Eve. According to the latest update of the Covid Portal of the Junta de Andalucía, there are 140 more cases in the last 24 hours (until seven in the morning) detected through PDIA (antigen test and PCR) compared to the 74 notified in the day Tuesday. Likewise, we must regret a new death, a common trend in this December, in which there have only been three days in which no deaths have been reported due to Covid-19.

As for the hospitalized, five more people have been admitted to centers in the province, one of them in the Intensive Care Unit. On the other hand, 21 people have received the epidemiological discharge.

In this way, the coronavirus cases that remain active in the Almeria geography this December 30 are 2,691: the difference between the 21,386 confirmed cases and the sum of deaths (288 to date) and recovered (18,407). Just a week ago, on December 23, the active cases were 3,233.

Regarding the deceased, always according to the figures of the Andalusian Institute of Statistics and Cartography, it is a man, a resident of Almería capital, belonging to the age group of 65 to 69 years.

Town to town

Regarding the incidence of the virus in the different towns of Almería, 140 infections have been reported in 28 towns of the province.

In the Almería health district there have been 67 positives: 40 of them in Almería capital, 13 in Níjar, 3 in Carboneras, 3 in Pechina, 2 in Íllar, 2 in Huércal de Almería and the remaining four in Benahadux, Gádor, Rioja and Viator.

In the Levante-Alto Almanzora health district, 44 more cases have been reported in the last 24 hours: 13 in Vélez Rubio, 7 in Vera, 6 in Pulpí, 5 in Huércal-Overa, 3 in Serón, 3 in Albox, 2 in Turre and the other five in Arboleas, Chirivel, Los Gallardos, Macael and Olula del Río.

As for the Poniente health district, 29 cases have been registered: 8 in Roquetas de Mar, 8 in Vícar, 5 in El Ejido, 4 in Adra, 2 in Berja and 2 in La Mojonera.

Cases in Andalusia and hospitalized

In the total count of Andalusia, the community has registered this December 30, New Year's Eve, the highest number of infections in December, 1,414, with 17 deaths.

In this way, Almería is the fifth Andalusian province in which more cases have been detected in the last day. Of the total of 1,414 cases of Covid-19 in the community, aside from the 140 in Almería, there have been 269 in Seville, 238 in Cádiz, 233 in Malaga, 185 in Jaén, 129 in Granada, 120 in Córdoba and 100 in Huelva.

In the section of hospitalized in the province, after 5 admissions in this last day, at the moment, Almería has 91 hospitalizations, of which 27 are in Intensive Care.

In the rest of the community, this is the situation: Cádiz: 172 hospitalizations, of which 31 in ICU; Córdoba: 105 hospitalizations, of which 21 in ICU; Granada: 186 hospitalizations, of which 50 in ICU; Huelva: 48 hospitalizations, of which 8 in the ICU; Jaén: 125 hospitalizations, of which 23 in ICU; Malaga: 152 hospitalizations, of which 18 in ICU; and Seville: 143 hospitalizations, of which 36 in ICU.

Cumulative stats from the Almería 360 site

This is the rolling coronavirus story for Tuesday 29 December 2020

Stats for that last 24 hours -  74 more cases and one more death

https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/3/provincia/206666/la-curva-se-estabiliza-con-otro-fallecido-y-70-positivos-mas-en-24-horas

Google translation:

The curve stabilizes with another deceased and 70 more positives in 24 hours

The deceased today is a patient in the capital and almost 200 sick people have recovered

The coronavirus curve seems to stabilize during the first week of Christmas in the province of Almería and the latest update of the Covid Portal of the Junta de Andalucía leaves figures similar to those of the day before, since in the last 24 hours another patient with coronavirus and a total of 74 people from Almeria have tested positive for a PDIA (antigen test and PCR), a dozen more than on Monday.

Thus, the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia collects that there are already 21,246 people from Almería who have tested positive for the coronavirus after adding more than 70 this Tuesday, when it has been Almería capital, as it has been happening since passing the bridge of December, the city that is experiencing the worst, as it has added 28 of the 73 positives detected. In addition, as if that were not enough, the only covid patient who died today was also a resident of the capital.

Along with the city of Almería, new infections have also been reported in Níjar, with four infections; Huércal de Almería, 3, and one in Benahadux, Carboneras and Pechina. Likewise, in the Levante of Almería, 28 new cases of covid have been detected, with a leading role for Vera, who has 10; Huércal-Overa, 3; Los Gallardos, Pulpí, Serón and Vélez-Rubio, two in each locality, and one in Albox, as well as in Antas, María, Olula del Río, Tíjola, Turre and Zurgena.

As for the Poniente Sanitary district of Almeria, this is the one that stands out the best today, when only six infections have been reported: 3 in Roquetas de Mar and one in Adra, Vícar and El Ejido. Finally, two cases have also been reported in people who are not registered in any of the 103 municipalities of Almeria.

Hospital pressure has also risen again this Tuesday: in Almería (99 hospitalizations, of which 29 in ICU), Cádiz (176 hospitalizations, of which 33 in ICU), Córdoba (100 hospitalizations, of which 22 in ICU), Granada (189 hospitalizations, of which 51 in ICU), Huelva (51 hospitalizations, of which 9 in ICU), Jaén (130 hospitalizations, of which 23 in ICU), Malaga (166 hospitalizations, of which 17 in ICU) and Seville (150 hospitalizations, of which 41 in ICU)

For its part, Andalusia adds 780 cases of Covid-19 coronavirus this Tuesday, December 29, 213 more than the day before and 223 more than a week ago, according to data consulted by Europa Press in the Ministry of Health and Families, which counts 48 deaths , 14 more than the previous day, 15 more than on Tuesday of last week and the highest figure since last December 19, when 55 deaths were registered.

In addition, the community continues to reduce its incidence rate of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days to 133.4 points by 1.7 points and only maintains the province of Jaén with a rate higher than 200.

Of the 768 positives registered in Andalusia, the highest figure since last Saturday, Cádiz is the province that adds the most with 194, followed by Seville with 155 and Malaga with 128. Below one hundred are Jaén with 76, Almería with 74, Córdoba with 72, Granada with 62 and Huelva with 18.

The UK variant of the virus has probably reached the province of Almería

https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/3/provincia/206677/estudian-la-llegada-de-la-cepa-britanica-a-almeria-en-un-caso-de-huercal-overa

Google translation:

They study the arrival of the British strain to Almería in a case of Huércal-Overa

The Health Minister, Jesús Aguirre, revealed it today

The British variant of the coronavirus could already be in the province of Almería. This will be the case if the case under study is confirmed, that of a positive detected in the municipality of Huércal-Overa is a carrier of the strain that emerged in the United Kingdom two weeks ago.

This has been assured by the Minister of Health of the Junta de Andalucía, Jesús Aguirre, who has pointed out that the strain, which is called "lineage 117" and which presents a "higher" volume of mutations than the virus usually presents, has It has been detected in five confirmed cases in Malaga and Granada and seven under investigation, as well as a hospital admission with isolation measures due to the high level of contagion of the strain.

Of these seven under investigation, one is a patient from Huércal-Overa, five from Malaga and another from Ronda, in the province of Malaga, Aguirre pointed out, who pointed out that despite being more contagious, it is not more virulent.

Of the five confirmed cases, three are patients from the province of Malaga and two from Granada, as explained by the same sources, who clarify that all of them - confirmed and the cases under study - correspond to people who they had returned from the UK to Andalusia.

All the confirmed cases present "good clinical evolution", as they have added from the Board, from where they explain that the study of all these samples is in charge of the Microbiology service of the San Cecilio de Granada University Hospital, which has the capacity to sequencing of the virus genome.

Cumulative stats from the Almería 360 site

There is a request for info recently posted on the AlmerimarToday Facebook page. It is about people wanting to play tennis or paddle tennis in the area.

The thread is here.

Here is a quote:

"Hello All,

Note that I think that you can see the Facebook page without being a member of Facebook. However if you want to comment you have to be a member of Facebook.

If there are any local non-members of Facebook interested in playing please let me know via the contact form on the site. I will pass on your details to the people who are interested in playing.

This is the rolling coronavirus story for Monday 28 December 2020

Stats for that last 24 hours (and a little earlier as sites are catching up on Xmas stats)

https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/3/provincia/206606/nochebuena-y-navidad-dejan-mas-de-300-casos-y-cuatro-fallecidos-en-30-pueblos

Google translation:

Christmas Eve and Christmas leave more than 300 cases and four deaths in 30 towns

Today 62 new positives have been reported and the death of another Almeria with covid

The passage of the first holidays of this Christmas has not made the province of Almería particularly bad, because since last December 23 until this Monday, 334 positive coronavirus have been diagnosed and four other patients with covid have died distributed among about thirty municipalities from Almeria.

The Ministry of Health and Families of the Junta de Andalucía has updated the Covid Portal of the Andalusian Institute of Statistics and Cartography a few minutes ago and the new data collects that in the last 24 hours, that is, from last Sunday until 07:00: 00 hours today, 62 new positives have been detected in Almería and another person has died, although, likewise, more than a hundred covid patients have been recovered.

Of these more than 300 positives, the vast majority, 200, have been registered in the Almería health district, where since December 23 a total of 200 new positives have been reported, 147 of them in the capital of Almería, which now totals 6,423 infected since March. Similarly, in the capital district, new cases have also been added in Níjar (21); Huércal de Almería (13); Carboneras (6); Fiñana (4); Viator and Benahadux (3); Canjáyar (2) and Pechina (1).

For its part, in the district of Levante-Alto Almanzora, 49 new positives have been diagnosed distributed among more than a dozen municipalities, with Turre in the lead by adding 13 new infected. They are followed by Pulpí (6); Albox, Vera and Antas (5); Huércal-Overa (4); Garrucha (3); Vélez-Rubio (2) and Bacares, Bédar, Cuevas del Almanzora, Olula del Río, María and Zurgena, with one in each case.

As for the Poniente health district, 84 positives have been detected and three of the four have died since last December 23. In this way, a neighbor of Adra and two of Roquetas have lost their lives so far this Christmas and the fourth has been an inmate of the residence for the elderly in Íllar. On the other hand, the positives have been diagnosed in El Ejido (31), Roquetas de Mar (25), Vícar (11); La Mojonera and Adra, with 7 in each location, and one in Bayárcal, Berja and Laujar de Andarax. There is also one more infected among those who are not registered.

Cumulative stats from Almería 360

So far 5 cases of  the UK new covid strain detected in Andalucía (none in the province of Almería so far)

https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-12-28/andalusia-detects-five-cases-of-new-covid-strain-from-uk-with-four-more-under-observation.html

Story about the first vaccinations in the province (noting that the next batch to be delivered is delayed - so some injections scheduled for today rescheduled for tomorrow)

https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/3/provincia/206582/ya-son-140-los-vacunados-en-almeria-tras-sumarse-50-sanitarios-del-poniente

Google translation:

There are already 140 vaccinated in Almería after joining 50 health workers from the West

The vaccination at the El Zapillo residence announced for tomorrow is postponed to Tuesday

Reme has kicked off vaccination in the province of Almería but it has not been the only one to receive it, since in total there have been 140 doses of the vaccine that have arrived today and that have already been administered to approximately 90 residents and workers from the Ciudad de El Ejido Geriatric Residence and fifty health workers from Poniente.

In the ejidense hospital, the honor of inaugurating the vaccination campaign has been held by Ana and Enrique, ICU nurse and Emergency Physician, respectively, who have received the first punctures of the Pfizer doses that have arrived today in Almería so that, act followed, other health workers from the Hospital de Poniente were also vaccinated until they reached 50, which leaves a total of 90 doses available at this time and that will arrive next Tuesday at the residence of El Zapillo and not this Monday as had been announced in a first moment,.

Before the start of the vaccination campaign, the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, this Sunday was excited and hopeful, which he considered the first step to recover the normality lost due to the pandemic. In this sense, he has assured that the objective of his Government is to achieve not a new normality, but a “complete” normality that is what the Andalusians as a whole want.

In this sense, he explained that the symbolic amount of 1,900 vaccines will begin to be administered today. Starting this Monday, as the Government of the Nation has promised through the Ministry of Health, a total of 70,000 doses will reach the community weekly, which will be distributed strictly under the protocol that has been marked with Health.