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Covid update: Canaries passes 40,000 infections, with 219 new cases, and 4 deaths
Covid update: Canaries passes 40,000 infections, with 219 new cases, and 4 deaths

The good news is that active cases have dropped below 6,000 and hospitalisations have reduced…

60,000 euro fine for refusing to have Covid vaccine in Galicia
60,000 euro fine for refusing to have Covid vaccine in Galicia

This is a new law approved in Galicia, the first region of Spain to do so...

Covid update: 189 new cases, Gran Canaria has most for 3rd day running
Covid update: 189 new cases, Gran Canaria has most for 3rd day running

159 samples of the British and Brazilian virus variants have been found in 821 samples from the Canary Islands...

Johnson gives hope of summer holidays abroad in UK road map
Johnson gives hope of summer holidays abroad in UK road map

The British prime minister announced the UK road map today which gives hope for international travel at the earliest May 17th…

Covid update: 159 new cases and 3 deaths in the Canary Islands
Covid update: 159 new cases and 3 deaths in the Canary Islands

The total accumulated cases in the Canary Islands is now 39,651 with 6,148 active, of which 85 are admitted to ICU and 291 remain hospitalized…

Covid update: 167 new cases and 2 deaths in the Canary Islands
Covid update: 167 new cases and 2 deaths in the Canary Islands

Gran Canaria has 90 new cases, Tenerife 56 and Lanzarote 16 on the day that level changes were announced...

Here is an overview of Level 2 restrictions for Tenerife and Gran Canaria
Here is an overview of Level 2 restrictions for Tenerife and Gran Canaria

These will apply for at least a week until the next review by the Governing Council and Ministry of Health...

Clouds, rain and strong winds this Sunday in the Canary Islands
Clouds, rain and strong winds this Sunday in the Canary Islands

In general the north and peaks will be wetter and windier than the south which will be clearer...

Indicators show a level increase for Tenerife and a drop for Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura
Indicators show a level increase for Tenerife and a drop for Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura

The Government decides today how the alert levels change, which will take effect from tomorrow...

Covid update: Tenerife has double the number of new cases that Gran Canaria has
Covid update: Tenerife has double the number of new cases that Gran Canaria has

The Ministry of Health reports of 112 new cases today and 3 deaths...

Spain relaxes paperwork required for residents to enter the country
Spain relaxes paperwork required for residents to enter the country

Residents can now use Empadronamiento and work contracts if they don’t have residencia with them, but ban on non-residents still applies…

Covid update: 173 new cases but actives drop again as 455 discharged
Covid update: 173 new cases but actives drop again as 455 discharged

The archipelago has 6,200 active cases today, 283 less than those registered yesterday…

As the haze goes away Storm Karim will affect the islands
As the haze goes away Storm Karim will affect the islands

The remains of the calima will disappear during today, but tomorrow the tail of storm Karim will leave its mark on the islands...

How does the Ministry of Health decide alert Levels?
How does the Ministry of Health decide alert Levels?

Here is an explanation of the eight parameters that the Ministry of Health uses to define which alert Level the islands are to be in so you can see for yourself...

Covid update: Islands exceed 39,000 infections by adding 140 new cases
Covid update: Islands exceed 39,000 infections by adding 140 new cases

Gran Canaria registers two Covid related deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of victims on the islands to 567…

Perez: ‘It is very likely that Tenerife will pass to Level 2’
Perez: ‘It is very likely that Tenerife will pass to Level 2’

Perez confirmed that any level changes will be announced on Sunday, adding that “it is very likely that Tenerife will pass to Level 2 because there is specific data that is concerning us”…

Torres: No alert Level announcements until Sunday
Torres: No alert Level announcements until Sunday

Torres has said that Gran Canaria could lower its alert, Lanzarote will repeat, and that Tenerife is showing ‘worrying tends’…

Covid update: ‘British’ strain detected in 12% of new cases in the Canaries
Covid update: ‘British’ strain detected in 12% of new cases in the Canaries

145 new cases have been detected in the islands, highlighting how the incidence of the virus is dropping across the archipelago…

Spanish Government will NOT give priority of vaccines to tourist regions
Spanish Government will NOT give priority of vaccines to tourist regions

The Balearic Islands have requested more vaccines saying that if the summer is lost, then another year is lost, as they don’t have a winter season...

Covid update: 126 new cases and one death in Lanzarote
Covid update: 126 new cases and one death in Lanzarote

The islands registered 175 new discharges in the last 24 hours and the number of active cases drops by 50 to 6,881…