Just as the Spanish government announces they are ready to start doling out additional booster jabs - fourth Covid vaccines - to the general population, starting with the oldest and working down, the health authorities in the Valencian Community have reported a slight dip in hospitalisations due to coronavirus and the number of critically ill patients in need of intensive care.
The total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic is 10,043: 3,833 in the province of Alicante, 1,194 in the province of Castellón and 5,016 in the province of Valencia.
However Long Covid, currently affecting and estimated 17m in Europe, may be with us for many years as this WION report shows: