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Man arrested in Tenerife for cutting off someone’s finger
Man arrested in Tenerife for cutting off someone’s finger

When police arrived at the scene, they found the victim of the attack bleeding profusely, for which they provided the first care and requested urgent health care.

Covid update: ‘British’ strain detected in 12% of new cases in the Canaries
Covid update: ‘British’ strain detected in 12% of new cases in the Canaries

145 new cases have been detected in the islands, highlighting how the incidence of the virus is dropping across the archipelago…

Currency transfers and the law post-Brexit
Currency transfers and the law post-Brexit

There is one particular change that it’s essential to be aware of when moving money abroad post-Brexit…

16 flights cancelled due to low visibility caused by the calima
16 flights cancelled due to low visibility caused by the calima

12 flights have been cancelled on La Palma and 4 on El Hierro…

Jet2 raises € 483M with share issue to overcome the drop in travel
Jet2 raises € 483M with share issue to overcome the drop in travel

The British travel industry wants the UK government to urgently establish how it will lift restrictions...

FTI Group: travelling to the Canary Islands at Easter ‘is possible’
FTI Group: travelling to the Canary Islands at Easter ‘is possible’

"Waiting for everyone to receive the vaccine is not a solution; we have to learn to live with the virus"...

Spanish Government will NOT give priority of vaccines to tourist regions
Spanish Government will NOT give priority of vaccines to tourist regions

The Balearic Islands have requested more vaccines saying that if the summer is lost, then another year is lost, as they don’t have a winter season...

Santa Cruz bar closed and fined after ‘Carnival party’
Santa Cruz bar closed and fined after ‘Carnival party’

The video of the party went viral as revellers ignored health restrictions... Bar closed for 3 months and 20,000 euro fine...

Tenerife doctors ask for a ‘reinforced level 1’ to contain the virus
Tenerife doctors ask for a ‘reinforced level 1’ to contain the virus

On Thursday the Governing Council will review the epidemiological data for all of the islands and update the restrictions and alert levels accordingly…

Agents evict 50 people camping on La Caleta beach in Costa Adeje
Agents evict 50 people camping on La Caleta beach in Costa Adeje

The Los Burros ravine and the Diego Hernández cliffs in Costa Adeje are protected areas and camping or staying there is not permitted…

Covid update: 126 new cases and one death in Lanzarote
Covid update: 126 new cases and one death in Lanzarote

The islands registered 175 new discharges in the last 24 hours and the number of active cases drops by 50 to 6,881…

The Canary Islands have now administered over 106,000 doses of Covid vaccines
The Canary Islands have now administered over 106,000 doses of Covid vaccines

The Archipelago continues with the vaccination campaign and 100% of people in Group 1 have now had both jabs…

Air Force ends aerial search for a cayuco in Canary waters without success
Air Force ends aerial search for a cayuco in Canary waters without success

The plane has been looking for a missing boat of immigrants approximately 96 kilometres south of Gran Canaria...

20% of Covid patients do not recover their sense of smell
20% of Covid patients do not recover their sense of smell

Loss of smell and taste are the most common symptoms of Covid-19...

Property sales fell by 22% in 2020 in the Canary Islands
Property sales fell by 22% in 2020 in the Canary Islands

The decrease was 17.7% in the whole of Spain during 2020, the largest decrease since 2011...

Mercadona donates 780 tons of necessities to food banks and charities
Mercadona donates 780 tons of necessities to food banks and charities

This is 63% more than the year before and equivalent to 13,000 trolleys full...

139 penalties for breaching Covid measures over the weekend
139 penalties for breaching Covid measures over the weekend

70 were processed in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and 69 in that of Las Palmas De Gran Canaria…

Almost half self employed have closed their business but continue to be registered
Almost half self employed have closed their business but continue to be registered

Approximately 10,000 autonomos are receiving aid for cessation of activity, and continue to pay their Social Security although they won't open their business again...

Canary Islands received another 17,550 doses of the Pfizer vaccine today
Canary Islands received another 17,550 doses of the Pfizer vaccine today

Politicians and health advisors ultimately see the vaccine as the only ‘real way out’ of the pandemic, and many believe we need a ‘mass vaccination’ in the Canaries as soon as possible so we don’t lose the summer season…

Covid update: 189 new cases and one death as incidence rates increase in the islands
Covid update: 189 new cases and one death as incidence rates increase in the islands

86 people are now in intensive care and 297 in wards with Covid across the islands… full stats here…