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Maspalomas Carnival Parade Events Cancelled Due To Contagion Risk
The touristed southern municipal town hall of San Bartolomé de Tirajana has announced this Wednesday afternoon that they will be cancelling all official events connected to the Maspalomas International Carnival grand parade, which had been planned for this Saturday 14th March, to prevent further contagion that risks increasing the number of cases of coronavirus on Gran Canaria, already confirmed to have affected at least seven people. The Consistory has sought advice and taken on board the...
Canary Islands Government suspend all events and activities of more than 1,000 people
Following the instructions from the Canary Islands Government Ministry of Health , the Municipal Town Hall of San Bartolomé de Tirajana have been told unequivocally that they need to suspend all remaining events for the Maspalomas International Carnival 2020. The quadripartite coalition who form the governing group of San Bartolomé de Tirajana has accepted without objection that the prevention of the Corona Virus contagion must take precedence over any potential disappointment or damage caused...
Gran Canaria Health Department denies reported eighth case of Corona Virus
The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands have this Wednesday morning denied reports that a first case of a Canary Islander catching Corona Virus was detected. Spanish language news sources had reported that a woman of Canarian origin had been admitted last Tuesday at the Maternity Hospital of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria after testing positive for the virus. The Canary archipelago at the time of writing has 22 active cases of Covid-19 registered yesterday until Tuesday,...
Los Verdes (The Greens) call for the suspension of Maspalomas Carnival
The Green party on the south of Gran Canaria have today said that they consider it inappropriate for Maspalomas to hold a massive party "when we are in a moment of a health emergency for the coronavirus" and asked for the events immediate suspension. Ramón González, spokesman for Los Verdes, today requested the suspension or postponement of the upcoming International Carnival de Maspalomas parade as a precaution, “especially when this event is a massive confluence point for a potentially...
Seventh case of Corona Virus on Gran Canaria confirmed
A new case of Corona Virus positive on Gran Canaria adds to the six infections confirmed so far on the island. The new case has been confirmed on the same day that the last two of the four Italians who tested positive on the island for Corona Virus have been admitted, alongside the first two of their group, to the main Insular Hospital, because of declining health, having been self-isolated in a holiday home in the south eastern coastal town of Arinaga (Agüimes) until this morning. The new...
Health Ministry confirms a thousand infected in Spain, and 28 dead, from Corona Virus
The Ministry of Health has confirmed its 999th case of Corona Virus in Spain, "a significant increase" since Sunday, when most focus was on the Community of Madrid (with 469 confirmed cases) and the Basque Country (with 149), these were the two areas which are most worrying and where specific measures could be taken. The death toll has risen to 28, after two more deaths were confirmed in Catalonia. The nine hundred and ninety ninth person infected was reported by the Health Ministry shortly...
On Gran Canaria: Two Dutch tourists test positive for coronavirus
Two new positive confirmations of Corona Virus tonight on Gran Canaria bring the total now to six. The latest cases are two Dutch tourists who are, according to the Canary Islands regional government, in good health and in isolation. The active cases of Coronavirus Covid-19 in the Canary Islands now has risen to 19 this Monday, three more than Sunday. There are also five patients who have been discharged as having fully recovered, giving a total of 24 cases. The Italian tourist who became the...
Canary Islands Health Department confirms 18 active cases of Corona Virus CoViD19
• The departure operation at the quarantined hotel on Tenerife is continuing, with restrictive measures, and by Sunday morning 643 people had already left the premises The Canary Islands Health Department have confirmed 18 positive cases of corona virus COVID-19 along with three medical discharges, meaning an accumulated total of 21 cases. Of these, 13 are in Tenerife, four in Gran Canaria and one in Fuerteventura. Of the 13 cases on Tenerife, six were part of the initial group of Italian...
Italian visitors who tried to leave Gran Canaria also have Corona Virus
The 61-year-old Italian woman, who last Thursday became the first person to be confirmed to have been infected by SARS COV2 here on Gran Canaria, had been sharing a holiday home in the south-eastern port town of Arinaga. Her travelling companions have now also tested positive for the virus, which causes the Covid19 respiratory disease. The Canary Islands Regional Government's Ministry of Health has confirmed the new cases, emphasising that the new patients are all in home isolation, at their...
Covid-19 Corona Virus confirmed on Gran Canaria, we all need to work together
Well, it has finally happened; at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday March 5, the Gran Canaria medical authorities located, confirmed and isolated our first case of the corona virus Covid-19, part of an epidemic that has been sweeping across the world since at least the middle of December 2019. A 61-year-old woman visiting the island to see her son, from the Lombardy area of Italy. She had not been travelling alone. Three friends accompanied her. The Italian tourists arrived last week and had planned to...
