Almerimar Today

Some videos of Idris and Shirley on their last days in Almerimar - from Shaun Price

Shaun Price has sent me some more videos of Idris and Shirley Browning. Thanks Shaun

The first one is a slow motion video of the last drive Idris took on the Almerimar course.

The next 2 videos are of Idris and Shirley saying goodbye to their friends in Almerimar. At the clubhouse after the regular FGS competition on 10 August 2018

Lock down special SPECIAL - Goodbye party for Idris

The last time many people saw Idris Browning in Almerimar.

Jacqui and I were lucky. We saw him when he called in to say goodbye to the Friday Golf Society players on his way to the airport.

We send our condolences to his family.

Coronavirus 21 May 2020

THIS IS THE ROLLING CORONAVIRUS STORY FOR THURSDAY 21 MAY 2020 - DAY 67 OF LOCK DOWN (NOW PHASE 1 HERE IN ALMERIMAR)

PLEASE NOTE I HAVE HAD SOME TECHNICAL PROBLEMS THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS. SO I HAVE BEEN BUSY. SO I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO PUBLISH STUFF HERE.

Daily info from my preferred Spanish stats guy

Note that a multiplication rate of 1.0 means approximately 0 events (cases or deaths) when comparing today`s 4 day average with yesterday's.

Note that this is the data from yesterday - due to timing changes to the release of data by the government

Google translation:

Data Wednesday May 20

The trend of the last days is maintained, which is why the last level of decrease achieved in both cases and deaths is reinforced. Today's rebound corresponds to an already recurring trend of rising numbers on Tuesday and Wednesday. It responds more to accounting criteria and rates than to the identification of regrowths or trend changes. So for a long time we have been talking about numbers within a range, when e achieves a new level of decline. It seems to me, as I already indicated, that the current range is 60 to 120 deaths, and less than 500 cases.

95 deaths are reported. Fourth consecutive day below 100. This leads to a further drop in the multiplication rate, now to 1.011.

416 infections in the last 24 hours (+121). Fourth consecutive day below 500. The rate drops again to 1.006. As Fernando Simón has indicated, about 240 of these new cases correspond to symptoms that started more than a week ago. That is, the current transmission detected is very low.

If Almería goes to phase 2 the walking and exercise timetables will disappear?

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2020/05/21/breaking-timetables-for-walking-and-individual-exercise-to-be-abandoned-in-phase-2-of-coronavirus-de-escalation-plan/

Coronavirus 20 May 2020

THIS IS THE ROLLING CORONAVIRUS STORY FOR WEDNESDAY 20 MAY 2020 - DAY 66 OF LOCK DOWN (NOW PHASE 1 HERE IN ALMERIMAR)

Daily info from my preferred Spanish stats guy

Note that a multiplication rate of 1.0 means approximately 0 events (cases or deaths) when comparing today`s 4 day average with yesterday's.

Note that this is the data from yesterday - due to timing changes to the release of data by the government

Google translation:

Spain, coronavirus situation, Tuesday May 19.

- Today the trend won this weekend is not broken.

They report 295 cases (+10). Second day below 300. New drop in the multiplication rate, to 1.007. Simón explains that only 17 of them seem to be of a very recent new contagion. The spread of contagion would already be very limited.

-13 communities already apply an early detection system and communicate the data. Today, dry data without graphics, because I do not have access to the material.

83 in the last 48 hours (+24). Third day below 100 deaths. The current range is 60-120. That it moves up or down, if it is within the range, does not mean worsening-improving. Another push down the rate, to 1.012.

Major mess on the data consistency front. Yesterday they gave total deaths: 27,709 Total deaths today: 27,778 Difference: 69 However, they report 83 deaths. In the document they point out a mysterious “Asturias has validated their cases of hospitalized, deceased”. That "the series are being revised." As these surprising inconsistencies (which do not end up being translated into revised series) are constant, it must be understood that they are not very concerned that there are these inconsistencies in their crisis communication.

Idris Browning RIP - 19 May 2020

Last night we heard the sad news that Idris Browning had passed away. He was and always will be a legend in Almerimar.

On behalf of everyone in Almerimar we send our condolences to his family.

Coronavirus 19 May 2020

THIS IS THE ROLLING CORONAVIRUS STORY FOR TUESDAY 19 MAY 2020 - DAY 65 OF LOCK DOWN (NOW PHASE 1 HERE IN ALMERIMAR)

Been busy with golf and Zoom chats. So not much news today.

No news yet from my preferred Spanish stats man. I will provide an update when I see it.

Use of masks to be become compulsory?

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2020/05/19/masks-to-become-obligatory-in-spain-by-tomorrow-says-health-minister-salvador-illa/

Lock down special - old photos of Almerimar - item 27 - Brian Thomas

As Jacqui and I are going out to play some golf later today I thought this photo from 2006 was a good one to post. Thanks to Brian Thomas for the photo.

Coronavirus 18 May 2020

THIS IS THE ROLLING CORONAVIRUS STORY FOR MONDAY 18 MAY 2020 - DAY 64 OF LOCK DOWN (NOW PHASE 1 HERE IN ALMERIMAR)

Taking temperatures at arrivals at airports in Spain

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2020/05/18/holidaymakers-to-spain-will-have-their-temperatures-checked-on-arrival-at-the-airport/?fbclid=IwAR3f5weG2f2LjGDn7jtk-6-l_r08XkJzalE3V5mzsPG67f6bDPCLuPb4tso

Málaga and Granada to stay in phase 1 for at least 2 weeks?

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2020/05/18/spainss-health-minister-says-malaga-and-granada-will-remain-phase-1-for-two-weeks/

Daily Spanish coronavirus data being reported at a later time of day for a different daily time period.

Here is a Google translation of what my preferred Spanish stats man has said:

Notice, data Monday May 18

Yesterday Fernando Simón announced that as of today the data for the day will no longer be with the information collected until 8:00 p.m. the day before, but until 24:00, to have the data for the calendar day. And that they will take their time to process the data, so they delay the time for communicating the results, in the afternoon. Therefore, our daily blog appointment with daily data will also happen in the afternoon.

So daily stats later in the day from now on.

Daily info from my preferred Spanish stats guy

Note that a multiplication rate of 1.0 means approximately 0 events (cases or deaths) when comparing today`s 4 day average with yesterday's.

Google translation:

Data Monday May 18

Excellent trend movement both on the death front and on new cases detected.

59 deaths, second consecutive day below one hundred (28 less than yesterday). It takes us back to the figures of March 14, at the beginning of the explosion of devastating increasing daily figures. The multiplication rate was then 4. Total deaths were multiplied by 4 every 4 days. Now the rate falls to 1.014, from 1.020 yesterday. However, it is likely that we still bracketed some days with figures above 100 dead, without signifying a rebound: there are still thousands of hospitalized patients.

285 contagions detected in the last 24 hours (I do not know if today corresponds to the last 28 hours, due to the change in the accounting period). Positive surprise for me, since stable figures could be expected due to the expansion of the activation of the early detection strategy, with tests to anyone who comes with symptoms. These are already good global figures so that in each and every one of the communities they can monitor all new cases, a key factor in getting out of the first wave of the epidemic well. The rate returns to the level of 1.008.

Except for Catalonia, with 85 new cases, all communities have less than 50 new cases. These are acceptable figures to monitor all cases, in the hope that they will also monitor all the close contacts of those infected. Aragon continues without reducing its daily number of cases.

In cases for every 100,000 inhabitants in the last 4 days, it increased significantly in Navarra (today it has a notable rise of 30 cases).