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The Government of the Canary Islands postpones the IGIC until June 1
The Government of #Canarias have postponed IGIC, the local value added tax, until June 1, allowing an injection of €600M into the economy of the islands President Ángel Víctor Torres has created a Management Committee in the areas of Health, Economy and Social Rights, focused on stopping the spread of Covid-19 The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, announced this week, after the ordinary Government Council was held, a reorganization of the health ministry...
Transport of passengers by air and sea connections restricted between the peninsula and the Canary Islands including inter-island travel
In order to protect people, property and places: As of March 19, only a limited number of daily connections have been allowed between the rest of the Spanish national territory and the islands of the Canary archipelago. Likewise, air connections between the islands of the archipelago have been limited to certain daily frequencies. As of the order, the disembarkation of passenger ship passengers at the islands' ports which originate in the mainland Spanish peninsula have been prohibited, with...
Arehucas halts production and dedicates factory to distilling sanitary alcohol
The famous Canarian rum company, Arehucas, has joined the fight against coronavirus with a shift to scale up the distillation of alcohol for sanitary use, they have paralyzed the production of rum due to the preventive closure of its factory. Currently the distillery, located in the municipality of Arucas has 1.08 million liters of raw material from which to distill alcohol, for hydroalcoholic gels and to obtain sanitary alcohol. This Canarian industry dedicated to the production of rums and...
Newsbrief: First coronavirus case on El Hierro
The most Western point of Spain, the tranquil and beautiful island of El Hierro, has reported its first detected case of coronavirus. Five days after a nationwide State of Emergency was declared, a 61-year-old man, resident in the capital, Valverde, has been confirmed as carrying the COVID-19 infection. Since Thursday night, the patient, who happens to be the father of the Tourism Minister in the Cabildo de El Hierro insular government, Lucía Fuentes, has been isolated in the Nuestra Señora de...
Newsbrief: The first “patera” since the declaration of the state of emergency
During the early hours of Friday morning, March 20, on the south of Gran Canaria, Maritime Rescue and the Guardia Civil rescued 45 immigrants of sub-Saharan origin, 22 possible minors, this is the first boat to reach the islands since last Saturday when the Spanish Government declared a state of emergency, nationwide. The immigrants, all male and mostly from Mali, arrived at the port of Arguineguín at around 04.15 hours after about 7 days at sea. The majority were in good health, except for...
#Tourism0: On Friday 80.000 tourists were still in the Canary Islands, all due to leave this weekend
Since Thursday night, when the order of the Ministry of Health of the Government of Spain was approved, an mass repatriation campaign has been launched in eight languages for those who still remain in the archipelago. It is estimated that there were over 80,000 tourists in the Canary Islands still on Friday night with 30,000 due to leave that day, thanks to repatriation flights organised from all the countries of origin. The Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce of the Government of the...
Coronavirus and companion animals
Press release by the Mogán Town Hall : The General Directorate for Animal Rights communicate to the local, regional and state security bodies a series of recommendations regarding companion animals and their caretakers during the State of Emergency. Given the situation caused by the pandemic declared by COVID-19, the following aspects and recommendations are insisted on, in relation to pet health care. There is no scientific evidence that domestic animals suffer from or transmit COVI-19....
Community: Motor Grande dog pound has empty cages because of volunteers
These are difficult times for everyone. The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting all of us, whether you are taking care of our elderly family members, looking in on neighbours, those financially less fortunate and those who can't take care of themselves. For some it is time to see that it is truly when community comes together that magic can happen. The municipal dog pound of Mogán, located in Motor Grande at the back of Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria is largely dependent of volunteers who come to...
TheCanaryCoronavirus:334 active cases, 139 hospitalized and 29 admitted to the ICU
So far, Tenerife has detected an accumulated total of 219 cases; on Gran Canaria, 97; on La Gomera, 3; on La Palma, 11; on Lanzarote, 4; on Fuerteventura, 13 and on El Hierro, 1. On Friday, the first case was confirmed on El Hierro, admitted and isolated at the Virgen de los Reyes de Valverde Hospital. While this morning a new case of coronavirus has also been confirmed on Lanzarote. Nine deaths linked to coronavirus infection have been reported as of 8:00 p.m. this evening, by the Canary...
#Tourism0: Spanish State gives Spanish hotels until March 26 to close
The Spanish Ministry of Health last night issued an Order Declaring the obligatory closure of hotels, tourist establishments, camping sites, caravan parks and short-stay accommodation before next 26th of March, 2020. The Order was published on Thursday night in the Official State Gazette (Boletín) and specifies that closing must take place as soon as the establishment has no customers and, in any case, within a maximum period of seven calendar days from the entry into force of this regulation,...
