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The UK is studying tourist travel to the Canaries and Balearic Islands in May
The UK is studying tourist travel to the Canaries and Balearic Islands in May

The UK Ambassador in Spain, Hugh Elliott, said in Palma this morning that they want this to happen…

Intense search for Tenerife father who has disappeared with his daughters
Intense search for Tenerife father who has disappeared with his daughters

He took his daughters without their mother’s permission, and has disappeared...

CEHAT see the rate of vaccination in other destinations as a threat to Spain
CEHAT see the rate of vaccination in other destinations as a threat to Spain

CEHAT warns that Spain’s summer season is under threat from Greece, Turkey, and Croatia due to rate of vaccinations...

SPAIN: ‘We will be ready to welcome back tourists en masse from June’
SPAIN: ‘We will be ready to welcome back tourists en masse from June’

This has been announced by Spain’s Secretary of State for Tourism at a travel and tourism conference...

Heavy rain expected in parts of Tenerife, La Palma and La Gomera today
Heavy rain expected in parts of Tenerife, La Palma and La Gomera today

In the north and east of these three islands, the intensity of up to 15 litres per square meter in an hour is forecast...

NHS app to be used as Covid passport for international travel from the UK
NHS app to be used as Covid passport for international travel from the UK

The UK transport secretary says he will soon set out details of which countries have made it on to a "green list"...

Covid update: The Canary Islands incidence rate drops below 50
Covid update: The Canary Islands incidence rate drops below 50

The IA7 for the islands has fallen to 49.96, and five of the islands have rates below 50...

European Parliament wants free Covid tests to help travel in the EU
European Parliament wants free Covid tests to help travel in the EU

The European Parliament says that paying for tests is discriminatory when vaccines are free to citizens...

If you are over 73 years old and have not been vaccinated call 012 now
If you are over 73 years old and have not been vaccinated call 012 now

Anyone in Tenerife and Gran Canaria born before 1948 should call 012 now if they haven’t been contacted for their first vaccination...

Gran Canaria still has ICU occupancy despite the reduction in infections
Gran Canaria still has ICU occupancy despite the reduction in infections

The government will reviews the levels of the islands tomorrow, will Gran Canaria be reduced to Level 2?

Tenerife bar fined 33,000 euro for an illegal party in basement of premises
Tenerife bar fined 33,000 euro for an illegal party in basement of premises

This is on top of the individual fines that there were issued to everyone in attendance...

Adeje and Arona have had more fines for breaking Covid rules than any other municipality
Adeje and Arona have had more fines for breaking Covid rules than any other municipality

During the past week the National Police have issued 309 sanction proposals for various breaches in the province of Tenerife…

Covid update: Canaries passes 52,000 cases with 165 new infections today
Covid update: Canaries passes 52,000 cases with 165 new infections today

Tenerife has 96 new cases today, Gran Canaria registers 38, Lanzarote adds 11, and Fuerteventura just 1…

Canaries Government wants facility for extra measures when state of alarm ends
Canaries Government wants facility for extra measures when state of alarm ends

The Government wants the ability to impose a curfew and protocols for inter island travel after the state of alarm…

TORRES: The arrival of the 1.14 billion aid package ‘is a matter of days away’
TORRES: The arrival of the 1.14 billion aid package ‘is a matter of days away’

This is the direct aid for SME’s and self-employed…

Ministry of Tourism doubt the Islands will be on the UK green list for travel
Ministry of Tourism doubt the Islands will be on the UK green list for travel

The Minister of Tourism for the Canary Islands says people need to be realistic as to why...

Turkey announces full lockdown until May 17th to halt Covid surge
Turkey announces full lockdown until May 17th to halt Covid surge

Turkeys stats for new cases and deaths are the 4th highest in the world...

ERTE: The ban on dismissing staff will remain in the new extension
ERTE: The ban on dismissing staff will remain in the new extension

The first meeting to negotiate details of the extension will take place on May 6th...

17 found dead on Cayuco drifting southwest of El Hierro
17 found dead on Cayuco drifting southwest of El Hierro

Only three people have survived the ordeal and have been taken to Tenerife for treatment by helicopter...

Covid update: Is this the turning point we’ve been waiting for?
Covid update: Is this the turning point we’ve been waiting for?

Only 114 new cases today, the lowest weekday number of cases since 8th December last year…