35,513 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the Canary Islands since the first case a year ago today... 113 people have died in January, the most in one month since the pandemic began... full stats here...
Rents have only fallen by 10% even though there are 7,000 apartments that have gone from tourist to residential rentals... There is only an average of 6% decrease in sales prices...
Here is a summary of the last year which will go down in history...
La Gomera is the only island that is Covid free, which does have some irony as tomorrow it will be exactly a year since the first case of coronavirus was detected in Spain, a German doctor on holiday in La Gomera... full stats here...
Here's Sam with a news update for the Canary Islands this week...
If you are self-employed and haven’t received any help from the Government, now is the time to speak to your gestor... Benefits that weren’t available before are now available that will help an extra half a million people... here are the details...
100,000 cars a day were using the stretch between Fañabe and Las Chafiras before the pandemic...
The pilot requested permission from air traffic control to make an emergency landing in the Canary Islands after verifying that one of their passengers was unwell...
Emergency services say a potential disaster on the TF-1 was avoided after drivers reported the incident…
Aena has awarded space for the Covid test centres in departure areas of five Canary Islands airports… The contract is for 6 months with the possibility of extension until December 31st 2021…
Gran Canaria now only has two active cases less than Tenerife after 213 new cases were detected in the last 24 hours… Tenerife’s numbers continue to drop with 224 people discharged today… full data here…
The camp set up in the Las Raices barracks will start to receive people next week...
Team sports are now permitted at Levels 1 and 2, regardless of whether the number of participants exceeds ten people...
This means that still only passengers with a Spanish passport, green residencia card or certificate, or the new TIE card will be allowed entry to Spain and the islands...
The director of the Spanish Tourism Office in London believes that "recovery will be quicker than people are predicting"...
Skies will be clear, winds will be light, no rain is predicted... it’s definitely beach weather to end January with!
Britons status as ‘third country foreigners’ after Brexit means they need prior military authorization as the Canary Islands are areas of interest for national defence…
The were also 418 medical discharges today, 317 of them in Tenerife… full data here…
The Association of the Canarian Music Industry wants to be included in the direct aid that is being decreed for hospitality and tourism, saying that entertainment has been just as hard hit by the pandemic…
There are 877 associated cases, of which 25 have required hospital admission, and two people have died from these outbreaks...