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Spanish Airline Association welcomes European Commission antigen test recommendations
Madrid, November 19, 2020- The Spanish Airline Association ALA has welcomed the recommendation adopted by the European Commission that encourages EU member states to use rapid antigen tests to contain the spread of the virus and limit isolation and quarantine measures. This opens the door to their being accepted from travelers, in addition to defending the validation and mutual recognition of these tests and their results. With this recommendation, the EC seeks to increase EU coordination on...
Coronavirus: European Commission recommends rapid antigen tests and support to increase testing capacity
Today, the European Commission adopted a recommendation on the use of rapid antigen tests for the diagnosis of COVID-19. This follows the Commission's recommendation on 28 October to ensure a common approach and more efficient testing strategies across the EU. It builds on the guidance developed with Member States input and expert advice from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Here is the complete text of Wednesday's historic Commission Recommendation of 18.11.2020...
EU recommend Rapid Antigen Tests for travel, President Torres celebrates “the safe reactivation of mobility and tourism in the Canary Islands”
The European Commission on Wednesday announced that they are approving rapid antigen tests for travel as a way to avoid severe restrictions that limit freedom of movement between European countries. They recommend that all EU states validate the tests which could be the key to restoring mobility throughout the European Union and help put an end to blanket quarantines. The President of the Canary Islands Government, Ángel Víctor Torres, commented yesterday, on...
Transfer of migrants from the Port of Arguineguín camp begins with noisy protests
This Wednesday afternoon the first transfer of migrants from the Port of Arguineguín camp, by bus bound for the military tents of the newly set up Temporary Attention Centre for Foreigners (CATE) in Barranco Seco, Las Palmas, left just after 6pm, to the sound of jeering from a small group demonstrators at the port, waving Spanish flags and other symbols. The group of about 50 migrants was the first of 200 scheduled to be transferred this Wednesday from the port, a number alluded to by Mogán's...
Investigation ordered into Tuesday’s migrant debacle on the port of Arguineguín
Following the embarrassing scenes from the Port of Arguineguín on Tuesday, with more than 200 migrants marched out of the harbour camp by police, and then summarily transported to the capital Las Palmas, without reception, recourse or resources. The north African, mostly Moroccan, migrants were left to fend for themselves in front of the closed buildings of the Spanish Government Delegation. The Ministry of Migration eventually were able to organise some return transport to bring 139 of them...
Migrants marched from port leads to confusion in Arguineguín
National Police this Tuesday afternoon were ordered to remove about 200 migrants from the Port of Arguineguín dockside. The migrants, apparently all of Maghrebi or Moroccan origins interviewed by The Canary News and TheCanary.TV team, said that they each had friends or family on the island who were either coming to pick them up, or with whom they would be staying moving forward. The fact of their removal and release was confirmed by police sources and also the Mogán Town Council, however no...
Spain’s DGT “Traffico” puts new system in place to help UK license holders exchange to drive legally in Spain
As you know, one of the key actions for UK Nationals living in Spain is to exchange your UK driving licence for a Spanish one, but recently a lack of appointments has made this difficult. Therefore, to speed up the licence exchange and ensure UK Nationals can begin the process before the end of the year, the DGT "Traffico" has put a new system in place which went live on their website yesterday. It is a two-step process. The first step is to make an application to the DGT before 30 December....
Weather: Canary Islands enjoying temperatures of 30ºC+ this week
The head of the Spanish Meteorological Agency, AEMET, in the Canary Islands, Jesús Agüera, says that the storm "Theta" that passed north of the Canary Islands last weekend has produced easterly winds, bringing warm weather temperatures well above normal to the archipelago, "an anomalous meteorological phenomenon" expected to last until at least Thursday, when the warm weather will likely be replaced by the sudden arrival of cold air from the north. Since the weekend many areas around the...
Fighting breaks out in Western Sahara as tensions escalate between Polisario Front and Moroccan occupying forces
Most have little or no understanding of the conflict situation just 100km east of The Canary Islands. Africa's last colonial battlefield has been in a state of ceasefire since 1991, when UN peacekeeping forces brokered a truce in order to ensure a referendum was held on self-determination. Originally agreed to by Morocco, who then changed their minds once the Sahawari fighters laid down their arms, the area has been in a state of...
Search team rescue dogs verify that no-one was caught in La Gomera landslide
Search team rescue dogs have been able to confirm there were no casualties in Saturday's rockfall. All residents living near where a massive landslide yesterday afternoon occurred, the area known as Argaga on the west coast of La Gomera island, have now been located, the local Cabildo (island government) has announced, along with all visitors known to have been in the area yesterday where a cliff spectacularly collapsed into the sea. The search was carried out using specially trained rescue...
