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...
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...
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…
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...
Skies will be clear, winds will be light, no rain is predicted... it’s definitely beach weather to end January with!
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...
Failure to use indicators properly or exiting from the inside lane are the main infractions committed...
Gran Canaria registers another death that brings the total to 512 fatalities since the start of the pandemic... full data here...
The desire to get a Covid vaccine has tripled in Spain in three months...
Results have come from 100 samples scientists suspected were a different strain collected between December 18th and January 18th...
Motorists will have to drop to 20 km/h below the speed limit to pass cyclists... 2019 was the first year in Spanish history in which more pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists got killed in traffic accidents than those in cars...
This means that the islands have used above 100% of the estimated dosage, in fact so far 105.5% of the doses that were delivered have been administered...
The EU wants to isolate countries with an incident rate of more than 500, avoiding non-essential travel and proposes mandatory quarantine for all travellers from high-risk regions...
The Minister of Immigration has announced today that by the middle of next month all the migrant camps planned for the Canary Islands will have been completed and ready to use...
The Canary Islands adds 253 positives and seven deaths in the last 24 hours... Most are registered in Gran Canaria (140), Lanzarote (78) and Tenerife (36)... full stats here...
A generally clear day in all of the islands with light winds from the northeast... forecast for all of the Canary Islands here...
