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Calima, high temperatures, and winds up to 70kmh today in the Canary Islands
Calima, high temperatures, and winds up to 70kmh today in the Canary Islands

The Canary Islands have a yellow warning due to haze and high winds, the calima will reduce visibility to 3,000 metres...

Good news: Regions say NO to 8pm curfew over Easter
Good news: Regions say NO to 8pm curfew over Easter

Any modifications to the Easter restrictions agreed two weeks ago have been rejected... the Easter restriction start on Friday until April 9th...

Covid update: 222 new cases today, 97 new outbreaks this week
Covid update: 222 new cases today, 97 new outbreaks this week

There is no-one infected in a nursing home or social centre for the first time since the pandemic began...

The Government is proposing 8pm national curfew over Easter
The Government is proposing 8pm national curfew over Easter

The Minister of Health has proposed this change to "impose more restrictive measures" at today's meeting to avoid a fourth wave...

Gang arrested introducing counterfeit 500 euro notes into Spain
Gang arrested introducing counterfeit 500 euro notes into Spain

37 people have been arrested accused of falsifying documents, fraud, money laundering and drug smuggling...

Torres: ‘We are prepared to have 70% of the population vaccinated this summer’
Torres: ‘We are prepared to have 70% of the population vaccinated this summer’

Torres said: "If they give us the raw materials and the vaccines, the Islands will achieve immunity before the end of the summer"

If you own a property UK loophole means you can come to Canary Islands
If you own a property UK loophole means you can come to Canary Islands

Updated regulations will allow people to leave UK to prepare second homes abroad for sale or rent...

Covid update: new cases rebound to 243 with 110 in Tenerife and 94 in Gran Canaria
Covid update: new cases rebound to 243 with 110 in Tenerife and 94 in Gran Canaria

Active cases have dropped… Incidence rates have increased… two more deaths… almost 80, 000 have had both vaccines…

First step in the right direction: Spain lifts travel restrictions with the UK
First step in the right direction: Spain lifts travel restrictions with the UK

UK restrictions are still in place, but when they get lifted, all systems go!

Overseas holidays from UK illegal from Monday with £5,000 fine
Overseas holidays from UK illegal from Monday with £5,000 fine

Non-essential international travel will be explicitly banned under new coronavirus laws, which won't expire until June 30th...

Don’t be an April fool, if you’re a non-resident your 90 days are up!
Don’t be an April fool, if you’re a non-resident your 90 days are up!

March 31st 2021 marks 90 days since Brexit came into force, making it the first deadline UK nationals have to meet…

Covid update: Canary Islands adds 190 new infections and four deaths
Covid update: Canary Islands adds 190 new infections and four deaths

Total cases have now passed 45,000, active cases for the islands have decreased, but the number of people in hospital has gone up…

Spring is in the air… or is it a calima?
Spring is in the air… or is it a calima?

A calima is returning to the Canary Islands over the next few days which will increase temperatures…

Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura start Level 3 from today
Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura start Level 3 from today

People meeting is limited to four people, and bars and restaurants can only serve on the terrace with 50% capacity...

Covid update: 218 new cases and 3 deaths in the last 24 hours
Covid update: 218 new cases and 3 deaths in the last 24 hours

The deceased are a 73-year-old woman in Tenerife, and a 73-year-old man and an 89-year-old woman in Gran Canaria...

The third wave of the pandemic has been most fatal so far
The third wave of the pandemic has been most fatal so far

Since December, when the 3rd wave began, the Canaries have added 23,450 infections and 299 deaths from Covid...

68 people now infected from one Covid outbreak started in a restaurant
68 people now infected from one Covid outbreak started in a restaurant

The outbresk started two weeks ago and continues to affect more people...

Covid update: 237 new cases and 4 more deaths in the Canary Islands
Covid update: 237 new cases and 4 more deaths in the Canary Islands

Gran Canaria has the most new cases today with 122 and Tenerife has 97, Fuerteventura 14, and Lanzarote just 3...

VIDEO: Here’s Sam with a breakdown of Level 3 restrictions starting Monday
VIDEO: Here’s Sam with a breakdown of Level 3 restrictions starting Monday

Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura have all been moved back to Level 3 from Monday, here's Sam to explain what this means...

Huge boost for Canaries mass vaccination plan
Huge boost for Canaries mass vaccination plan

The medical services of 150 private companies and 50 mutuas will vaccinate in the Canary Islands...