'Rejoicing on the island today, for at midnight we passed into Level 1 (traffic lights: green)! This is definitely worth noting, as the others moving down or already there are our considerably smaller neighbours of La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. Ruth thought we might move at the previous review, but this didn't happen in part as there were a few days with "bad" data, and caution was being exercised with it being the beginning of Carnival time. There has officially been no Carnival, and the one for La Oliva has always been the very last of the season, but it seems that anything that was going to happen in recognition is over! (Last week a bar in Santa Cruz de Tenerife was fined EUR 20 000 and closed for three months for hosting a festive party)
The reduction in restrictions is not going to make much difference to Greyrocks. The main changes are the removal of all curfew and a latest closing time in bars of 1 am, social groups including table capacity moved up to ten, and the resumption of some sports. Unfortunately there in no relaxation of the ban on live music. This is regulated at municipio level, and the attitude of the mayor is one of the crosses we in La Oliva have to bear!!
The good news is - of course - that the easing reflects the improving and relatively low incidence. Here is a different graphic, showing that "IA" - new daily cases over a 7 day period per 100 000 residents:
Today's bulletin for Fuerteventura:
Active cases: 65 including 3 in hospital of which one is in ICU.
Total deaths to date: 8
There are a few glimpses of better times economically as some shops, bars and restaurants that have been closed for a long time are reopening,, but tourism levels depend on policies in the home nations and those relate to the Canaries as a whole, or even the whole of Spain, so Corralejo still has the air of a ghost town during the week! The weekends see local visitors flocking in, and the most buoyant sector is still the surfers. Last weekend there was "surf to die for" and the harbour area was heaving with punters using the water taxis.
For us February has been uneventful other than a flutter of excitement about Fibre broadband - which came to nothing in the end! What a buffer!
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