Holiday in Villamartin in September

Hi

I live nearby (Playa Flamenca). The whole area feels perfectly normal apart from wearing masks. Masks have to be worn outdoors if you can't stay 1.5 metres away from others, and I suspect its the same on the beach (I'm not a beach person, so am not sure).

However, the area is overrun with holidaymakers now, and they don't seem to know when they should be wearing a mask! And its not being enforced.

Re 62% - iirc that's 62% of population (not just adults) and it refers to fully vaccinated (not just first dose) - after a slow start that record now compares well with UK.

In short, there's little to worry about.

Cheers

Steve

Presumably the OP is thinking that that Spain is lagging behind with vaccines. That is most definitely not the case.
Just looking at the fully jabbed figures for both Spain and U.K. It’s difficult to make accurate comparisons becauseSpain are vaccinating the over 12’s and the U.K. were only vaccinating adults over the age of 18. I know they’ve reduced the age to 16 now, but as that was only announced last week, there’s no one of that age group fully vaccinated whereas in Spain we do have over 12 year olds with both jabs. 

So looking at the figures released on 11 Aug the U.K. had 75.3% of adults fully jabbed

Spain has age brackets of 12-19, 20-29, 30-39 and so on .

So if you look at the rate for Spain using the lower age limit of 20 we have 72.3. % fully jabbed

That looks to me as though Spain are well on track

However if you want to spin it another way

According to worldometers the population of Spain is 46,774893

According to Spanish Health Stats 28,993,301 are fully jabbed      =  62%

According to worldometers  the U.K. population is 68,281,798

According to U.K. Gov stats 39,839,709 are fully jabbed.      = 58.3%

Lynn

Hi EP99,

Don´t worry about vaccination rates in Spain, they´re higher than the UK.  The UK government has confused (some may say misled) the British public by publishing figures as a percentage of adult population, whereas Spain publishes them as a percentage of total population.  Our World In Data also uses this latter metric to ensure comparison between countries is accurate, so the percentage of population fully vaccinated in Spain as of yesterday was 63.15%, whereas in the UK it was 59.23%.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

Kind regards,

Kim

Why would you be concerned over how many have been vaccinated?