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Where were you when lockdown was announced a year ago?
Where were you when lockdown was announced a year ago?

A year ago today Spain announced it was going into lockdown at midnight, and our lives changed forever...

Covid update: fifth consecutive day that new cases are above 200
Covid update: fifth consecutive day that new cases are above 200

The Canary Islands add 217 new cases and one more death...

Flights: Latest updates from major UK airlines as holiday bookings surge
Flights: Latest updates from major UK airlines as holiday bookings surge

UK Airlines have updated their travel schedules after the announcement of a UK locator form and the UK’s roadmap out of lockdown...

A huge thankyou from us all at the Canarian Weekly
A huge thankyou from us all at the Canarian Weekly

It’s a year today since the last copy of the newspaper was delivered in Tenerife...

Spain extends ban on travellers from the UK until April.
Spain extends ban on travellers from the UK until April.

Spanish borders are closed to Britons until March 30th. This is the latest travel advice...

Cases continue to increase: 250 positives and 4 deaths in the Canary Islands
Cases continue to increase: 250 positives and 4 deaths in the Canary Islands

Tenerife has 122 new cases and Gran Canaria has 104 in the last 24 hours…

The Germans are not coming… Canaries left on travel blacklist, six regions removed
The Germans are not coming… Canaries left on travel blacklist, six regions removed

Six regions of Spain have been removed from the list, all have lower incidence rates than the Canaries…

What is ‘Reinforced’ Level 2 for Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura?
What is ‘Reinforced’ Level 2 for Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura?

Reinforced Level 2 means 10pm curfew, 33% capacity indoors, 50% on terraces and more, but prevents perimeter closure...

Tenerife and Gran Canaria stay at Level 2, but with extra restrictions
Tenerife and Gran Canaria stay at Level 2, but with extra restrictions

Extra restrictions will be implemented and start from 00.00h on Monday...

The European Medicines Agency authorizes Janssen's single dose vaccine
The European Medicines Agency authorizes Janssen's single dose vaccine

The EU has ordered 200 million doses of this vaccine, 21 million of them are for Spain, which will receive first 5.5 million from April…

Covid update: 229 new cases, 127 in Tenerife, 71 in Gran Canaria
Covid update: 229 new cases, 127 in Tenerife, 71 in Gran Canaria

The incidence rate over 7 days for the islands has now passed 60… Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura are the islands with the worst data…

Greece ready for ‘a race with the Canary Islands’ to get British tourists first
Greece ready for ‘a race with the Canary Islands’ to get British tourists first

The Greek Tourism Minister has said they are ready to receive English tourists from May in a massive way…

Vaccination teams administer more than 7,000 doses for the first time in one day
Vaccination teams administer more than 7,000 doses for the first time in one day

The Ministry of Health are pleased with progress as supply and inoculation of the vaccines has increased…

Canary Islands to approve restrictions similar to those of Carnival for Easter
Canary Islands to approve restrictions similar to those of Carnival for Easter

The Government will toughen measures to avoid contagion at Easter as infections continue to rise in the islands...

94 new outbreaks this week, 72% are from family or social gatherings
94 new outbreaks this week, 72% are from family or social gatherings

Three outbreaks of Covid in Tenerife after a birthday celebration and two family meals...

The haze is returning to the Canary Islands
The haze is returning to the Canary Islands

The State Meteorological Agency forecasts that tomorrow there will be a general rise in temperatures throughout the islands…

Covid update: Second day with more than 200 cases, and Tenerife more than 100
Covid update: Second day with more than 200 cases, and Tenerife more than 100

Daily cases have increased again, this time to 221, Tenerife has the most with 112, and Gran Canaria has 76…

Health are considering moving Tenerife and Gran Canaria to Level 3
Health are considering moving Tenerife and Gran Canaria to Level 3

Tenerife adds more than 100 cases for the first time in two months...

Cloudy in the north, clearer elsewhere today in the Canary Islands
Cloudy in the north, clearer elsewhere today in the Canary Islands

Full forecast for all the islands here...

Covid update: Canary Islands register 210 new cases and four more deaths
Covid update: Canary Islands register 210 new cases and four more deaths

Tenerife adds 102 new infections and Gran Canaria has 89 as there is a spike in cases in the two capital islands…