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Canary Islands decree fines for failing to comply with COVID-19 prevention measures
The Canary Islands Government are taking stringent action to enforce COVID-19 prevention measures and try to keep businesses, as much as possible, and the economy open by targeting fines and sanctions at anyone who is found to be breaching measures to tackle coronavirus. The last month has seen a sudden increase in covid19 detections, particularly in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, which has lead to a near total drop off in tourism and hospitality businesses, primarily affecting the south of...
Commitment from Spain’s Labour Minister to extend the ERTEs for as long as necessary
The President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, received a commitment on Tuesday from the Spain's Minister of Labour and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, that the Temporary Employment Regulation Files (ERTE), the Spanish Government "furlough scheme" for contracted employees at companies that could not continue operating this year, maintained in the Canary Islands and elsewhere since the state emergency, to extend the ERTEs for as long as necessary, as of September 30, the day they are...
The Canary Islands are reporting 31 new outbreaks, but far fewer numbers in a cluster
The Canary Islands Health Department are today reporting 31 new outbreaks, in addition to the 66 current outbreaks active over the last 15 days, added to thirty more outbreaks currently being followed-up, on the basis that they are due to be closed as having had no new cases detected over the last fortnight. Of the new outbreaks, 30 are in the province of Las Palmas ( 2 of them in Fuerteventura) and one is in the province of Tenerife, in Granadilla, involving 5 individuals, one of them...
Canary Islands now on Germany’s travel “Blacklist” requiring PCR test results on return
The German government has announced, this Wednesday afternoon, that the Canary Islands are, as of today, being placed on the Germany's travel "Blacklist" of regions to which they do not recommend travel. Berlin say that they will oblige all those coming from the islands, as well as the rest of Spain, to either quarantine or to present a valid PCR test result on arrival at the airport to prove that they are not infected with the Covid-19 coronavirus. Germany's decision puts in check all the...
Arguineguín footballer David Silva tests positive for COVID19 after negative result in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Arguineguín-born footballer David Silva, staunch supporter of The Food Project in the small but popular Gran Canaria fishing-cum-tourist town where he was raised, recently joined Spanish La Liga team Real Sociedad, and was presented to the press this Monday in San Sebastián after taking a second PCR test in 72 hours, news arrived this afternoon however that he has in fact tested positive for Covid-19 and will now be obliged to quarantine, according to a report from the San Sebastian club. The...
Nightlife and Tourism businesses in the Canary Islands are demanding an urgent rescue plan
Nightlife and Tourism businesses in the Canary Islands are demanding an urgent rescue plan saying, in presentations to the regional parliament this Monday, that they are "fed up" of the regional Executive "continuing to ignore" the sector. The statements come on the day that all four of the primary tourism associations in the Canary Islands - Ashotel, FEHT, Lanzarote Tourist Federation and Asofuer - have demanded the implementation of tests for tourists both at origin and destination, along...
Gran Canaria doctors appeal for individual responsibility due to “very serious situation”
A large number of Gran Canaria doctors appeal to the public, as medical professionals and staff members in the main Insular Hospital Universitario, having signed a group statement, trying to convey to the population their growing concern about the evolution of coronavirus in the capital of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The statement, which was released by Dr. Víctor Pons, a long standing and well respected member of the Emergency Service at the hospital, and medical officer for UD Las Palmas...
COVID19 cases rising, Government asks everyone to avoid social gatherings and makes masks mandatory at work
COVID19 cases have continued rising over the last week. Gran Canaria and Lanzarote currently have about a dozen so-called hot zones, that is a rate of infection where more than 100 cases of coronavirus have been detected out of every 100,000 inhabitants in the Accumulated Index (AI) of cases declared over the previous seven days. On Gran Canaria more than half the municipalities on the island now currently exceed this threshold. "In these places we have made the most restrictive decisions"...
Sweeping new measures aimed at controlling soaring infection rates on Canary Islands
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, announced "tough and drastic" sweeping new measures this Thursday, following the extraordinary session of the Governing Council and a meeting for the coordination of security forces, in an appearance before the media. The new rules will apply to those islands that show COVID19 infections incidence of 100 cases or more per 100,000 inhabitants, as is currently the case on Gran Canaria and is expected to be on Lanzarote...
Arrested for attacking police after refusing to wear a mask in Maspalomas
A 50-year-old woman was arrested for attacking police today, with a prior police record in southern municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, after she allegedly rushed at officers at an establishment in the main tourist area of Maspalomas. The woman along and a friend, were said to be causing a scene and refusing to wear masks at a commercial establishment. The detainee is said to have run at the officers, attacking and biting them. The police also recommended that a second woman, having...
