One thing has been made very clear during the lockdown in Spain – home is a safe space for you, and for society. When you’re at home, you’re unlikely to be exposed to infection. More importantly, you are not going to infect anyone else. The laws are more relaxed for those who share the same […]
Lanzarote has spent weeks with a figure of three positive cases of Covid-19, but a closer look at those cases shows that there is still a lot to learn about the disease. Two of the three are recovering in a ward at the Dr José Molina Orosa Hospital in Arrecife, where they have been for […]
Canarian President Ángel Víctor Torres has said that he will continue to fight for tests at origin for tourists who wish to come to the Canaries. Torres told the Cadena Ser channel that this topic was one he had continually insisted on at the regular Sunday meetings of regional leaders with national government. Torres told […]
La Graciosa reopens to tourists today, with ferry company Lineas Romero operating 10 daily journeys to and from the island. The ferry company announced that “the eighth Canary island is now open for all Canarian residents to enjoy.” La Graciosa is now in the second week of Phase 3, which allows free movement within the […]
Spain’s ministries of Health, Education and Professional Training have presented a document that gives an glimpse of how different life will be be for schoolchildren when they return to classes in September after an unprecedented six-month break in attendance caused by the coronavirus outbreak. Primary school pupils up to the age of 10 (fourth year) […]
The Spanish government has ruled that mask use will remain compulsory in public places where social distancing cannot be guaranteed once the country moves into the “new normality”. The law, unchanged from the one which currently applies, will now remain valid after the final phase of the lockdown exit plan expires on 21st June (if […]
In May’s Gazette we speculated that the low incidence of coronavirus in the Canaries could have been assisted by the heavy calima (Saharan dust storm) that caused a “mini-lockdown” three weeks before the official coronavirus lockdown. Now that idea has been supported by an official study, carried out by several Canarian experts and authorised by […]
On 28th of May, the two Covid 19 patients remaining in the Dr José Molina Orosa Hospital tested negative for Covid 19. For almost 24 hours, Lanzarote was free of the virus until a positive case arrived from Madrid and was immediately quarantined. First published in Gazette Life, June 1st 2020. The 77 days that […]
The Canarian Government has, so far, failed to respond to requests from Lanzarote and Fuerteventura to give the two eastern islands special consideration in its crisis reconstruction plan. Lanzarote and Fuerteventura are far more reliant on tourism than the rest of the islands, and the unemployment rate on the eastern isles has shot up to […]
A child who arrived on a patera (boat carrying migrants) last Thursday has tested positive for coronavirus. The patera was detected 20 miles off the Lanzarote coast on Thursday morning and intercepted by a Salvamar maritime rescue vessel. 48 people were on board, including 14 women and five children, and the migrants were placed in […]
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