The authorities are advising the public, that if they see a person walking around wearing a blue scarf tied around their arm or wrist, not to berate them for disrespecting confinement. There are some exceptions to the Royal Decree 463/2020 referring to confinement of people in their homes, as of Fridays Boletin. It was modified […]
An 82-year-old woman was found dead inside her house this morning, in the Eden Centre in Los Cristianos, and her husband aged 86, was found in serious condition lying close to her. Both of them had bloody wounds and the deceased woman had suffered a serious blow to her head. The National Police have confirmed […]
A Super Puma helicopter from the 802 Squadron of the 46th Wing, took off this morning from Gando air base in Gran Canaria, to take UME personnel to Tenerife to help at the Fasnia residential centre, where one man has died, and 36 people (including 10 staff) have tested positive for coronavirus. The Air Force […]
Until 8pm on March 27th, the Archipelago now has 1,025 cases of coronavirus, more than 20% of them among health personnel; 36 deaths and 25 people healed; 377 have required hospitalization, of which 68 have been attended to in intensive care. The Ministry of Health for the Canary Islands reports that in the Archipelago the […]
Here is your definitive guide to what ERTE is if your employer has filed to temporarily suspend your employment contract. Answers to the 13 most common questions for workers, whose company decides to file a temporary employment regulation (ERTE) file due to the state of alarm due to […]
“If you touch my pregnant girlfriend, I will kill you,” he told a policeman. A man in Gran Canaria has been sentenced to four months in prison and a 180 euro fine, for breaking the rules of confinement, then threatening and injuring a police officer. The incident […]
The Armed Forces are to properly manage the conservation and transportation of corpses due to COVID-19. The Central Government has empowered members of the Armed Forces to conduct and transport bodies during the state of alarm in the face of the “accumulation and absence of available funeral services.” “In […]
New restrictions on flights between the islands have been reduced by 96% compared to usual before the state of alarm was decreed. The Minister of Transport, Sebastián Franquis, proposed the new restrictions starting this Saturday, as flights will be reduced to just ten each way per day, as opposed to the 18 that are currently […]
Unipol officers from the Local Police in Santa Cruz, were called to break up a birthday party with 20 people at it, in a house in Santa Cruz. According to their Twitter account, the police wrote “What we were dreading to see” regarding the intervention at a house in the southwest district of the capital […]
