The Canary Islands have the second highest incidence rate for Covid in Spain
Only Madrid has a worse epidemiological situation. The accumulated infection rate has grown 50 points in the last 3 days...
Canaries Government extends temporary suspension of anti-Covid measures until September
This includes capacity limitations, different closing times, and group sizes…
Covid update: Gran Canaria still at alert Level 2, the rest of the islands are at Level 1
There have been 1,042 new cases and six deaths from Covid in the last four days in the Canary Islands…
Hospital staff with Covid in Spain can now work in ‘non-vulnerable’ departments
The Ministry of Health says they can be placed in a different department until they test negative again...
Brits can still use their unexpired EHIC cards when holidaying in the Canary Islands
They are valid until the expiry date on the card post Brexit, NOT the date the UK left the EU...
Explanation of Spain’s entry rules for travellers from Third Countries including the UK
Here is an overview of Spain’s requirements to come to the Canary Islands since they lifted the ban on non-vaccinated travellers...
Covid update: 1,029 new cases and 7 seven deaths since Saturday
Data for the over 60s is still being updated twice a week by the Ministry of Heath...
Spain will study containment measures to stop Monkeypox
The Public Health Committee is meeting today to analyse the situation as nine regions are now affected...
First Monkeypox case is confirmed in the Canary Islands
The Ministry of Health are studying five other cases in the islands as virologists suspect that the illness is airborne…
Spain has most Monkeypox cases in the world and two are in the Canary Islands
The SCS are investigating Maspalomas Pride in Gran Canaria as a source of contagion in the islands...
5 deaths from Covid and 1,116 new cases in the over 60s since Friday
Hospital occupation by Covid patients has increased by 13% in four days; all five deaths were registered in Tenerife...
Good news as Tenerife teenager is confirmed as not having hepatitis
Canarian hospitals remain on alert as the cause of the appearance of this variant of hepatitis is still unknown…
The number of patients hospitalized for Covid in the Canaries drops by 12.9%
Almost 1,000 people over the age of 60 were infected with COVID in the Canary Islands in the last three days...
Covid update: Only one of the islands now has hospital pressure at medium risk
Fuerteventura has the most favourable epidemiological situation for the over 60s with the lowest incidence rate of 195…
Covid update: Tenerife and Gran Canaria remain at alert Level 2
The rest of the islands are at Level 1 as the ICU occupancy by Covid patients continues to drop…
The HUC hospital in Tenerife has no Covid patients in ICU for first time in 2 years
Despite this good news health professionals ask people to act responsibly to prevent a rebound…
A Spanish nurse is the first known case of Covid re-infection in less than 3 weeks
She went from contracting the Delta variant to being infected by Omicron in just 20 days...
Many people still chose to wear masks on the day mandatory use was abolished
Despite the joy that masks no longer have to be worn indoors, many chose to continue to wear one as a precaution...
12 deaths and 1,682 new cases of Covid in the over 60s in the last week
There are now 317 people admitted to hospitals with coronavirus, 25 in ICU and 292 on wards…
VACCINATION UPDATE: More than 870,000 people have now had their booster dose
85.11% of the target population of the Canary Islands are now fully vaccinated against Covid-19…
