Ayamonte dropped below the 500 mark today (455) and although it was originally programmed that Ayamonte would come out of perimetral lockdown on Saturday this has been changed to start from midnight tonight.

It comes on a day that Ayamonte once again declared zero new cases in the last 24 hours and the same day that the vaccination plan started rolling out in the area demoninated AutoCovid, where people drive up and are administered the vaccine without getting out of their car.

Ayamonte started vaccination today the first two hundred people over 80 who are not resident in a nursing home (the nursing homes in Ayamonte were first to be vaccinated in phase one and are all now immune). As there are more than 200 over 80 living in their own homes in Ayamonte the program is in place to vaccinate everyone over in Ayamonte over 80 as soon as the number of doses distributed permits.

The vaccination of these first two hundred people will take place today and tomorrow at the Clinic in Ayamonte. The people who have been selected will have already received a phone or an SMS from the Andalusian Heath Services.

Ayamonte Town Hall has prepared an area adjacent to the Health Centre where people who have been vaccinated can rest for 15 minutes while being monitored by health care workers as the protocol dictates.

In Spain there have been 2,782,751 vaccines administered since the 27th Dec 2020 and 1,144,556 people are now immune due to the vaccine. Andalusia leads the way both in administering the jab (506,973) and people now immune 202,631.

There are currently 2,943 patients in Andalusian hospitals with Covid-19 of which 624 are in intensive care. Today there are 148 people hospitalized in Huelva hospitals of which 29 are in intensive care.