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Back to school for pupils in the Canary Islands
Back to school for pupils in the Canary Islands

More than 324,000 students and 30,000 teachers will return to classes in the Canary Islands today...

Covid update: Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura have rebound of new cases
Covid update: Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura have rebound of new cases

The Archipelago registered 263 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, so the total accumulated cases now rises to 29,631...

Filomena leaves the Canary Islands, but expect a showery Sunday
Filomena leaves the Canary Islands, but expect a showery Sunday

There are some spectacular photos showing the after effects of the storm, particularly on the peaks of the islands... full weather forecast here...

Covid update: Gran Canaria has more daily cases than Tenerife again
Covid update: Gran Canaria has more daily cases than Tenerife again

The Canary Islands provisionally confirmed 289 cases of Covid-19 yesterday...

Front-line health personnel will get vaccinated from Monday
Front-line health personnel will get vaccinated from Monday

The Canary Islands Health Service has trained 645 nurses who will be in charge of vaccinating during the first stage of vaccination...

Covid update: Canaries are once again on the list of high-risk places in Europe
Covid update: Canaries are once again on the list of high-risk places in Europe

Yesterday there were 238 new cases detected in the islands, 97 in Tenerife, 69 in Gran Canaria, 48 in Lanzarote, and 23 in Fuerteventura...

Government activates alert for snow in Tenerife, Gran Canaria and La Palma
Government activates alert for snow in Tenerife, Gran Canaria and La Palma

The archipelago is still under the effects of the storm Filomena which has already brought heavy rain and strong winds…

83 new outbreaks in the Canary Islands: half in family gatherings
83 new outbreaks in the Canary Islands: half in family gatherings

The majority of family based outbreaks have occurred among non-cohabitants with several homes or municipalities associated with each one...

Covid update: 292 new positives puts islands on over 7,000 active cases
Covid update: 292 new positives puts islands on over 7,000 active cases

There are now 7,157 active cases in the islands, the highest number since the pandemic began...

Tenerife stays at Level 3 for Covid, with Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and La Gomera on Level 2
Tenerife stays at Level 3 for Covid, with Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and La Gomera on Level 2

These new restrictions will be in place from Monday for the next 14 days, and will be reviewed every Thursday…

Spanish baby leaves ICU after being hospitalized for 70 days for Covid
Spanish baby leaves ICU after being hospitalized for 70 days for Covid

Baby Petru was infected when he was only nine days old and has been in hospital since 9th October…

Eight flights cancelled due to strong winds in the Canary Islands
Eight flights cancelled due to strong winds in the Canary Islands

A Ryanair flight has also been diverted…

Ministry of Health says there will NOT be another national lockdown in Spain
Ministry of Health says there will NOT be another national lockdown in Spain

Salvador Illa has categorically said no to another national lockdown… the Ministry of Health says that regional Governments already have enough ‘tools’ to combat the pandemic…

Various roads closed due to storm damage
Various roads closed due to storm damage

Several roads are closed due to landslides, obstacles in the road, and electrical and telegraph poles that have blown over…

Covid update: 175 new cases, the majority in Gran Canaria
Covid update: 175 new cases, the majority in Gran Canaria

One Covid related death was reported yesterday, a man in El Hierro, only the second person on that island to die from coronavirus...

The Canaries does it again: more big winners in the El Niño lottery
The Canaries does it again: more big winners in the El Niño lottery

There have been big winners in the Canary Islands in El Gordo, Euromillions, and now El Niño lottery this festive period...

More bad weather as Storm Filomena will affect the Canary Islands until Saturday
More bad weather as Storm Filomena will affect the Canary Islands until Saturday

Winds reached 128 kmh in La Gomera yesterday, and Gran Canaria had the most rain...

What restrictions will be in place from Sunday in the Canary Islands?
What restrictions will be in place from Sunday in the Canary Islands?

Current restrictions finish on Sunday in all the islands... the government and health authorities meet tomorrow to assess what will be in place afterwards...

Covid update: 229 new cases and 10 more deaths in last 24 hours
Covid update: 229 new cases and 10 more deaths in last 24 hours

Full stats for all the islands... almost 11,000 people have now had vaccine in the Canaries...

Is the ‘British variant’ of coronavirus already in the Canary Islands?
Is the ‘British variant’ of coronavirus already in the Canary Islands?

The virus with which a woman in La Palma, who returned from England has been infected with, has a 90% chance of being the same one that is sweeping the UK...