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Covid update: Canaries finishes January with 233 new cases and 3 deaths
Covid update: Canaries finishes January with 233 new cases and 3 deaths

35,513 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the Canary Islands since the first case a year ago today... 113 people have died in January, the most in one month since the pandemic began... full stats here...

Today is a year since the first case of Coronavirus in Spain... in La Gomera
Today is a year since the first case of Coronavirus in Spain... in La Gomera

Here is a summary of the last year which will go down in history...

Covid update: Gran Canaria is now most infected Canary Island
Covid update: Gran Canaria is now most infected Canary Island

La Gomera is the only island that is Covid free, which does have some irony as tomorrow it will be exactly a year since the first case of coronavirus was detected in Spain, a German doctor on holiday in La Gomera... full stats here...

VIDEO: This week’s news round up from the Canarian Weekly
VIDEO: This week’s news round up from the Canarian Weekly

Here's Sam with a news update for the Canary Islands this week...

Covid update: 363 new cases, Gran Canaria is spiralling with 213 today
Covid update: 363 new cases, Gran Canaria is spiralling with 213 today

Gran Canaria now only has two active cases less than Tenerife after 213 new cases were detected in the last 24 hours… Tenerife’s numbers continue to drop with 224 people discharged today… full data here…

Gran Canaria remains at alert Level 3 and Lanzarote at Level 4 for another week
Gran Canaria remains at alert Level 3 and Lanzarote at Level 4 for another week

Team sports are now permitted at Levels 1 and 2, regardless of whether the number of participants exceeds ten people...

Spain extends travel ban on UK arrivals until February 16th
Spain extends travel ban on UK arrivals until February 16th

This means that still only passengers with a Spanish passport, green residencia card or certificate, or the new TIE card will be allowed entry to Spain and the islands...

A hot and hazy end to January in the Canary Islands
A hot and hazy end to January in the Canary Islands

Skies will be clear, winds will be light, no rain is predicted... it’s definitely beach weather to end January with!

Music industry wants direct aid from the Canary Islands Government
Music industry wants direct aid from the Canary Islands Government

The Association of the Canarian Music Industry wants to be included in the direct aid that is being decreed for hospitality and tourism, saying that entertainment has been just as hard hit by the pandemic…

138 new coronavirus outbreaks in the Canaries in the last week
138 new coronavirus outbreaks in the Canaries in the last week

There are 877 associated cases, of which 25 have required hospital admission, and two people have died from these outbreaks...

New study shows 80% of drivers can’t use roundabouts properly
New study shows 80% of drivers can’t use roundabouts properly

Failure to use indicators properly or exiting from the inside lane are the main infractions committed...

Covid update: Canaries exceed 34,000 infections by adding 337 new cases
Covid update: Canaries exceed 34,000 infections by adding 337 new cases

Gran Canaria registers another death that brings the total to 512 fatalities since the start of the pandemic... full data here...

60% of Spaniards would get vaccinated tomorrow if they could
60% of Spaniards would get vaccinated tomorrow if they could

The desire to get a Covid vaccine has tripled in Spain in three months...

49 samples of the ‘British’ Covid strain detected in the Canary Islands
49 samples of the ‘British’ Covid strain detected in the Canary Islands

Results have come from 100 samples scientists suspected were a different strain collected between December 18th and January 18th...

Trafico prepares new rules to protect cyclists on roads
Trafico prepares new rules to protect cyclists on roads

Motorists will have to drop to 20 km/h below the speed limit to pass cyclists... 2019 was the first year in Spanish history in which more pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists got killed in traffic accidents than those in cars...

Canaries leads vaccination in Spain by using sixth dose per vial from Pfizer
Canaries leads vaccination in Spain by using sixth dose per vial from Pfizer

This means that the islands have used above 100% of the estimated dosage, in fact so far 105.5% of the doses that were delivered have been administered...

Tenerife is the only province in Spain where Covid cases are decreasing
Tenerife is the only province in Spain where Covid cases are decreasing

The EU wants to isolate countries with an incident rate of more than 500, avoiding non-essential travel and proposes mandatory quarantine for all travellers from high-risk regions...

Government says all immigrants will have left hotels by mid-February
Government says all immigrants will have left hotels by mid-February

The Minister of Immigration has announced today that by the middle of next month all the migrant camps planned for the Canary Islands will have been completed and ready to use...

Covid update: 493 people discharged from hospital and isolation today
Covid update: 493 people discharged from hospital and isolation today

The Canary Islands adds 253 positives and seven deaths in the last 24 hours... Most are registered in Gran Canaria (140), Lanzarote (78) and Tenerife (36)... full stats here...

Only light cloud on a sunny Monday in the Canaries
Only light cloud on a sunny Monday in the Canaries

A generally clear day in all of the islands with light winds from the northeast... forecast for all of the Canary Islands here...