Balearic Health Ministry issues flu and Covid warning
The ministry has urged people to avoid going to work if they have symptoms of illness, whenever possible.
The general public is being asked to remain alert and consider wearing masks in crowded areas.
The general public is being asked to remain alert and consider wearing masks in crowded areas.
A new variant of COVID is already dominant in the Balearics
This new variant is more contagious, but less aggressive.
Let’s face it chaps - the person in charge is usually a woman
I have this theory (more a certainty actually) that it is women who generally make the key decisions in family life and then rather cleverly ‘sell’ these decisions to the male of the species complete with the fantasy that it was his decision in the first place.
Say goodbye to the tourismphobes (alleged)...
It is an observation of the absolutely obvious to say that Thomas Cook and Covid reinforced what was already known about economic dependence on tourism.
Boris Johnson during the Covid-19 pandemic
Boris Johnson during Covid-19 pandemic.
Tourism on the move by Melia Chief Executive Gabriel Escarrer
The fundamentals of tourism remain solid. Even a pandemic that has paralysed travel for almost two years has not affected the desire to travel...
Frank Confidential
Have we all 'Let ourselves go' since Covid struck?
According to research women around the world are wearing make-up, on average, 28% less than in 2019. It seems that this is called “opting for a more natural look.”
Confidential: Limping whilst walking in the countryside
I don’t know if the same debate about obesity is raging in Spain as it is in Britain at the moment, but here it has got very political.
Shortening of quarantine to be discussed
There is currently a seven-day isolation period for positive cases who are asymptomatic or who have mild symptoms.
COVID restrictions relaxed
PSIB, Més and Podemos indicated that it is necessary to be guided by the criteria of health experts.
Over 20% of Balearic population have had Covid
Cases plummet to levels of 40 days ago and the end of the sixth wave begins to be seen.
Government to eliminate mandatory outdoor face masks next week
The schedule is for masks to no longer be mandatory outdoors from Thursday next week.
Son Espases ICUs, only 15% lower than height of the pandemic
The ICU has capacity for 80 beds, at the height of the pandemic last year there were 94 beds.
Huge volumes of COVID hospital waste threaten health - WHO
It estimates that some 87,000 tonnes of personal protective equipment (PPE), or the equivalent of the weight of several hundred blue whales, has been ordered via a U.N. portal up until Nov. 2021 - most of which is thought to have ended up as waste.
Palma hospital activates new phase of contingency plan for Covid
The number of beds has been increased and more staff have been hired.
- Spain wants Britons to show they have 113.40 euros, £97, per day for their holidays
- Major security alert at Mallorca airport, surprise landing of flights from Morocco and Namibia
- Big changes on the horizon when Britons travel to Mallorca
- Over two hours for Britons to get through Palma airport queues
- Living in a motorhome in Palma: "It'll only get worse"
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The Covid-19 inquiry: the language of loathing!
The Covid-19 inquiry presently underway, has so far - not been the tedious box-ticking affair that many predicted.
Frank Leavers13/11/2023 14:38