Arboleas & Region Covid Update 2.2.22.

Arboleas 95 cases. 

( 22 in last 14 days. That is 8 less than from yesterday )

2. New Cases.

0. Recoveries   

Albox  showing 617 cases.

(212 in last 14 days. That is  1 less than from yesterday ) 

21. New cases.

22. Recoveries.

Zurgena has 114.

Active cases. 

(42 in past 4 days. That is 8  less than yesterday )

2. New Cases.

3. Recoveries.

Total Covid Only Hospital Admissions = 2,173

(Yesterday 2,290)

Of which. 248 are in ICU.

(Yesterday  250. A reduction of 2 )

Andalucia total new cases on.2.2.22 = 5,831

Recoveries during same period = 8,685

Figures from Informacion Covid19 Almeria.

Arboleas & Region Covid Update 31.1.22.

Sorry for delay.

Arboleas 96 cases. 

( 33 in last 14 days. That is 12 less than from Friday)

4. New Cases.

16. Recoveries   

Albox  showing 620 cases.

(200 in last 14 days. That is  41 less than from Friday ) 

17. New cases.

80. Recoveries.

Zurgena has 116.

Active cases. 

(50 in past 4 days. That is 2 less than Friday )

6. New Cases.

4. Recoveries.

Total Covid Only Hospital Admissions = 2,092

(Friday 2,227)

Of which. 223 are in ICU.

(Yesterday  238. An Increase of 17 )

Andalucia total new cases on.

31.1.22 = 12,822

Recoveries during same period.  = 25,820.

There were sadly 31 deaths from Covid over the last 3 days in Andalucia.

Figures from Informacion Covid19 Almeria.

Jos Biggs as a tale for you today, hmmm......

My cough was troubling me and everyone else within a range of about 500 yards. There is no telling when this cough is going to start, but once started it makes a real job of it and doesn’t give up for a good ten minutes.

A drink does nothing to assuage its intensity, but I discovered that if I could attack it before it really got going a honey sweet would stymie its worst excesses.

So in pursuit of solace in the form of a honey sweet I went into Dia. For a moment I wondered if I had accidentally stumbled across the modern Spanish version of the Marie Celeste - it was utterly deserted!

The trolleys were there, waiting to be pushed. The chill cabinets were full to brimming, the vegetables smiled alluringly from their display trays, the shelves were burdened with every sort of non-perishable items from toilet rolls to tins of tuna, yet nowhere was there any sign of human presence.

Not only was there no sign of any staff, there were also no customers. Undeterred I sought and found a packet of honey sweets, price 1€.

I went to the till and made a discrete ‘customer waiting to pay’ kind of a noise, but to no avail. I perambulated the aisles, all of them, twice - I was the only example of homo sapiens in the whole shop.

I returned to the till and made a much louder ‘customer waiting to pay’ noise. Nothing.

I stood in solitary splendour, sweets in one hand, a euro coin in the other, and cogitated. Should I leave the coin on the counter? If I did then the staff would find the coin and have no idea why it was there.

Should I put the sweets back and leave? No. I was a customer. I wanted to buy sweets. I had the sweets and I had the right money ready to pay for them. 

I sighed deeply, put the euro back in my purse and still clutching my sweets left the shop.

I was guilty of shoplifting to the tune of 1€. I don’t think the police are likely to come knocking with a warrant for my arrest, but I wonder how much I could have got away with if I’d been so minded?

Technically I’m a criminal - but my conscience troubles me not a jot!

And I don’t think the theft of a bag of sweets worth 1€ is likely to cause the downfall of a national chain of supermarkets like Dia!