The DGT have listed illnesses that prevent you renewing your driving licence
Here is the full list of conditions that prevent driving, or getting a licence for a reduced period of time before another medical…
Spain is entering 7th wave of Covid but virus now affects people differently
New Covid variants worsen current illnesses and don’t give patients pneumonia...
Health reports a big increase in Covid cases in the last four days
They have registered almost 3,000 new cases and 10 deaths in the Canary Islands since Friday...
Spain takes a step closer to regulating the use of medicinal cannabis
It will be available in hospital pharmacies and health centres for patients that meet the correct criteria…
The Ministry of Health corrects Darias on the scope of the fourth vaccine
Darias wrongly announced yesterday that the entire population of Spain will have a fourth dose...
Spain announces 4th Covid vaccine for the entire population
Inoculations will begin in the Autumn with improved vaccines that protect against the new coronavirus variants…
The EU Digital Covid Certificate for travel is staying for another year
The EU Council and European Parliament have agreed to keep it until June 2023 to facilitate easy travel within the EU…
The Canary Islands have the second highest incidence rate for Covid in Spain
Only Madrid has a worse epidemiological situation. The accumulated infection rate has grown 50 points in the last 3 days...
Canaries Government extends temporary suspension of anti-Covid measures until September
This includes capacity limitations, different closing times, and group sizes…
Covid update: Gran Canaria still at alert Level 2, the rest of the islands are at Level 1
There have been 1,042 new cases and six deaths from Covid in the last four days in the Canary Islands…
Hospital staff with Covid in Spain can now work in ‘non-vulnerable’ departments
The Ministry of Health says they can be placed in a different department until they test negative again...
Brits can still use their unexpired EHIC cards when holidaying in the Canary Islands
They are valid until the expiry date on the card post Brexit, NOT the date the UK left the EU...
Explanation of Spain’s entry rules for travellers from Third Countries including the UK
Here is an overview of Spain’s requirements to come to the Canary Islands since they lifted the ban on non-vaccinated travellers...
Covid update: 1,029 new cases and 7 seven deaths since Saturday
Data for the over 60s is still being updated twice a week by the Ministry of Heath...
Spain will study containment measures to stop Monkeypox
The Public Health Committee is meeting today to analyse the situation as nine regions are now affected...
First Monkeypox case is confirmed in the Canary Islands
The Ministry of Health are studying five other cases in the islands as virologists suspect that the illness is airborne…
Spain has most Monkeypox cases in the world and two are in the Canary Islands
The SCS are investigating Maspalomas Pride in Gran Canaria as a source of contagion in the islands...
5 deaths from Covid and 1,116 new cases in the over 60s since Friday
Hospital occupation by Covid patients has increased by 13% in four days; all five deaths were registered in Tenerife...
Good news as Tenerife teenager is confirmed as not having hepatitis
Canarian hospitals remain on alert as the cause of the appearance of this variant of hepatitis is still unknown…
The number of patients hospitalized for Covid in the Canaries drops by 12.9%
Almost 1,000 people over the age of 60 were infected with COVID in the Canary Islands in the last three days...
