Vaccines arriving in this area of Spain on Monday will be the Moderna brand. Like other countries, Pfizer are cutting back on the production so they can update their equipment to produce more of them. They have assured countries that the number of vaccines they contracted for in Q1 this year will be fulfilled and they will be able to up the supply from the beginning of March.
The unused vaccines causing a bit of a stir here as well. Two mayors of neighbouring towns, who happen to be married to each other, got vaccinated even though they are nowhere in the list of priorities. Opposition parties are now calling for their resignation even though they said they would have gone to waste otherwise.
Seems other town officials in a few other places have been jumping the queue as well.
Or course, they wouldn't try to make political capital out of the pandemic (unless they got honorary obsessive membership of Arrse).
Number of cases in the Valencia region is on the rise with a couple of days breaking records for the amount of positives. Cases per 100,000 were 220 at the beginning of January but have crept up to over 400 per 100,000 as of yesterday. 2 particular towns have reached 1,000 per 100,000 but our little enclave is under 100 per 100,000.
I mentioned previously that over 100 in residence homes in the Madrid Region had been infected despite having the first jab on Dec 27th. Now it appears that a residential home in Benidorm has 80 new cases (12 staff) and 4 of those have died when they had the first vaccine on 4th January.
Still arguments going on about imposing lockdowns. The autonomous communities say they can't impose it region wide as that is not in the terms of the central government state of alarm although many of them have imposed no movement in or out of quite a lot of towns. Restaurants and bars have to close at 5 pm with some towns closing them completely on weekends. Shops limited to 30% of capacity but doesn't seem to be strictly controlled in supermarkets in particular. Curfew in our area still from 2300 to 0600 but other regions have advanced it to 2200 and Aragon and Asturias have called for a complete curfew from 2000 hours, almost in line with the countrywide curfew in France from 1800 to 0600.
On the borders, Portugal has imposed a one month complete lockdown with only essential shops open.
Gibraltar imposed a full lockdown on Jan 2nd for an initial 14 days (ends today) but it looks as if it'll be extended a week.
