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Canary Islands welcome closure of Arguineguín migrant reception camp in “next few weeks”
The controversial Arguineguín migrant reception camp is to finally be closed in “next few weeks” following an announcement this Friday
Rapid antigen tests to be authorised by Canary Islands for visiting tourists
The Canary Islands Government have now made clear that they will authorise the use of rapid antigen tests in the screening of tourists, news which will provide a boost and some much needed confidence, moving forward, for an industry which accounts for 40% of GDP in the archipelago, and which has been devastated this year due to the various measures employed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Canary Islands Ministry of Health is preparing instructions to include this diagnostic...
Canary Islands do not currently advise using antigen tests to detect coronavirus, except in certain circumstances
The Canary Islands Government Ministry of Health this Monday published a resolution setting the parameters for using antigen tests to detect SARS CoV-2 virus. They advise that diagnostic tests, which produce results in just 15 minutes, only be performed on patients who have either had symptoms compatible with COVID-19 for the previous five days or to find asymptomatic patients who have been in close contact with a confirmed positive case. The Government announcement last week had stated that...
New strain of coronavirus emerged in Spain, now most prevalent in second wave across Europe
A new strain of coronavirus that causes covid-19, which was identified as having emerged in Northern Spain "does not produce a more serious condition, nor does it compromise the effectiveness of possible vaccines, although it seems to facilitate the transmission of the virus," according to a disease specialist at the CSIC Infectious and Clinical Genetics centre, Vicente Soriano, speaking to the Spanish news agency Efe. Soriano is director of the Medical Centre at the International University...
Gran Canaria tourist accommodation worth 100 million euros now on sale
A raft of Gran Canaria tourist accommodation complexes, hotels and apartments, have recently gone on sale, in a further measure of the economic fallout from what is being called the "worst tourist crisis in the Archipelago" ever experienced. Losses of up to 83% of expected occupancy, air connections running at less than 40% compared to a year ago and an expected total arrivals to The Canary Islands of less than five million tourists this year, less than a million on Gran Canaria, compared to...
Ministry of Defense offers to accommodate migrants at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria barracks
Spain's Ministry of Defense has this weekend offered a fourth facility to help accommodate migrants who have been arriving en masse to the islands by boat over the last few weeks and months, so as to try to ease the pressure on local infrastructure following a huge increase in people trafficking, and migrants attempting the crossing, on what is known as the Atlantic Ocean Canary Route, widely considered one of the most dangerous migratory routes in the world. The ministry has now made...
New UK lockdown announced from Thursday, travel restrictions likely to harm Canary Islands recovery hopes
Just one week after The Canary Islands have been added to the safe travel corridors list from the UK, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tonight announced a new nationwide lockdown in England which will prevent all but necessary travel, for work or other exceptional circumstances, which is likely to scupper any recovery of UK tourist flows to The Canary Islands, which had been expected throughout November. Although not quite as restrictive as the first national lockdown, it seems travel...
Canary Islands pioneer new COVID certification requirements for tourist accommodations
The decree law, requiring tourists to self certify negative test results for coronavirus, approved on Thursday afternoon by the Canary Islands Regional Governing Council is now pending technical modifications before it will be published in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC), to take effect immediately. However, there will be a transitional period before the decree is validated by the Regional Parliament. The new security regulations have been brought about by the Regional...
Canary Islands become first in Spain to require negative test results from tourists
The Canary Islands Executive Governing Council, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria this Thursday, October 29, 2020, has, as expected, approved a new decree law of extraordinary measures in tourism to deal with the health effects and economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the legal text establishes that in order to access licensed tourist accommodation establishments on the Islands, travellers must have completed an active infection diagnostic test established by the health authorities,...
Illegally built tanks for dolphins at Palmitos Park cannot be legalised after the fact
In a rural valley just ten minutes from the most popular tourist resort area on Gran Canaria, dolphins have been kept for the last ten years and made to perform for visitors, in purpose built pools that were built illegally, without proper permissions, and which experts also say are wholly inappropriate for animals who, when in the wild, can swim more than 100km a day, not to mention the cruelty of being kept in a tank and forced to perform for food. It seems the days of dolphins at...
