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Repatriation flight plan for migrants is underway
Repatriation flight plan for migrants is underway

The Ministry of Migration has confirmed that there are four weekly flights to Morocco, and soon there will be some to Mauritania and Senegal...

All roads to Mt Teide are closed until at least Monday
All roads to Mt Teide are closed until at least Monday

Snow on Teide, hailstorms in Granadilla, and sunbathing in El Medano... all on the same day!

Emergency services urge drivers to take extra care on Tenerife’s roads
Emergency services urge drivers to take extra care on Tenerife’s roads

They are asking for maximum caution due to rain and traffic jams… A 44-year-old man has been injured in an accident on the TF-1 after rolling his car…

Canary Islands could have 70% vaccinated in 3 months and 21 days
Canary Islands could have 70% vaccinated in 3 months and 21 days

The Islands have the facility to administer 30,000 doses a day, but need the guarantee of supply…

Covid update: 249 new cases but incidence rates continue to decrease
Covid update: 249 new cases but incidence rates continue to decrease

There were 249 new cases and one death today… here is full data for all the islands…

Torres: the peak of infections has been surpassed in the Canary Islands
Torres: the peak of infections has been surpassed in the Canary Islands

The president asks citizens to remain cautious and follow guidelines saying "We must maintain the restrictions; we don’t want a rebound in cases"

Canary Islands records the two lowest temperatures in Spain
Canary Islands records the two lowest temperatures in Spain

The coldest temperature was -4.4ºC this morning… The polar front affecting the Archipelago until tomorrow has left hailstorms in relatively low points such as Tegueste or Santa Úrsula…

When can Lanzarote reduce its alert Level restrictions?
When can Lanzarote reduce its alert Level restrictions?

Here is an explanation of the parameters that the Ministry of Health uses to decide which alert Level the islands are in... for Lanzarote, the island is a long way from having it’s level reduced...

Gran Canaria Cabildo closing nine access roads to Aríñez because of snow
Gran Canaria Cabildo closing nine access roads to Aríñez because of snow

The roadblocks will be implemented as soon as it is confirmed that the snowfall has dropped to 1,400m the level of Aríñez, to prevent an ‘exodus’ of residents to the summit...

3.2 degree earthquake off the coast of Fasnia in Tenerife
3.2 degree earthquake off the coast of Fasnia in Tenerife

The tremor was at a depth of 31 kilometres in the sea...

Access roads to Teide are closed until Monday
Access roads to Teide are closed until Monday

The Cabildo has requested that residents do NOT head to Teide and respect the closures that are in place, and the reasons why they are in place...

Restrictions levels stay the same in all Islands for another week
Restrictions levels stay the same in all Islands for another week

The measures will be extended until February 15th on all islands with the next review on Thursday February 11th…

Aena charges 100% rent to airport shops and restaurants after no reduction agreement
Aena charges 100% rent to airport shops and restaurants after no reduction agreement

Aena has kept their word after offering two different proposals to help with payments, which were rejected as being "unaffordable" by tenants… Rental agreements are worth 1.2 billion euros a year in airports…

Active cases down, Incidence rate down, R rate down… are restrictions taking effect?
Active cases down, Incidence rate down, R rate down… are restrictions taking effect?

February has got off to a good start as far as the epidemiological data is concerned for the Canary Islands as a whole… full data here…

The Canary Islands exceed 100 outbreaks for the fourth week in a row
The Canary Islands exceed 100 outbreaks for the fourth week in a row

One of the outbreaks has seen 52 people get infected and over 200 isolated after a funeral in La Aldea in Gran Canaria, and forced the installation of a PCR test centre in the municipality…

Snow alert activated from 6pm tonight in Tenerife, La Palma and Gran Canaria
Snow alert activated from 6pm tonight in Tenerife, La Palma and Gran Canaria

It is forecast that there will be as much snow as Filomena brought last month, and could have a record amount in certain areas...

Man arrested in Gran Canaria for posting a ‘sex ad’ of his ex-girlfriend
Man arrested in Gran Canaria for posting a ‘sex ad’ of his ex-girlfriend

The victim reported him after receiving numerous calls to her mobile phone requesting sexual services...

Are vaccination passports the key to re-establishing travel and tourism?
Are vaccination passports the key to re-establishing travel and tourism?

Spain plans to establish ‘vaccination certificate’ to recover tourism sector... AstraZeneca’s announcement that their vaccine reduces transmission by 67% supports countries request for a vaccine passport...

Hoteliers believe that Easter ‘may be a good time to get back to work’
Hoteliers believe that Easter ‘may be a good time to get back to work’

CEHAT say: "No wave has been caused by tourism and there have been no outbreaks attributable to any hotel facility"

Covid update: 231 new cases and 4 deaths in the Canary Islands today
Covid update: 231 new cases and 4 deaths in the Canary Islands today

More than 36,000 people have now tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began... Tenerife now has less than 3,000 active cases... full data here...