Spain’s Health Department has announced that it hopes to have Green Digital Certificates, or so called Covid Passports, ready by the end of June, in order that they will be fully operational for the summer season.

Arrecife has registered over three quarters of Covid cases on Lanzarote in the past week, and the capital’s seven-day rate has once again risen into Level 2 territory. However, there is as yet no sign of a “fourth wave” on Lanzarote.

Almost six out every ten litres of fresh water that has been desalinated on Lanzarote is wasted, Canal Gestion have admitted.

The Canarian Parliament has voted unanimously to offer “special treatment” to Lanzarote and Fuerteventura when allocating relief measures for the Covid crisis.

The first shipment of 300,000 doses of the Janssen vaccine will arrive in Spain today or tomorrow, and will initially be used to speed up immunisation of the 70 to 79-year old age group.

An ecologist and researcher has denounced the excavation of sand from the Jable desert region of Lanzarote. Alberto Ucero, a researcher for Spain’s Upper Council of Scientific Investigation, made a video in January showing footage…

Armando Santana, Arrecife’s Councillor for Tourism and Commerce, has confirmed that the Zara shop on the capital’s Calle Real would be closing “in the coming weeks”. The closure is part of a programme of national shop closures by the Inditex group, who own Zara as well as several other familiar high street names in Spain. There is no indication that the Zara branch in Puerto del Carmen’s Biosfera will be affected.

Lanzarote returns to Level 2 today, after the expiry of the special Easter restrictions that have been in place for the last fortnight.

30 of the 81 active cases registered recently on Lanzarote were brought in by tourists or students returning from the Easter holidays, according to La Voz de Lanzarote.

The Canarian Government will today decide the levels that will apply on the islands following the lifting of the Easter restrictions from Saturday.

As other countries such as Greece, Albania, Thailand and Turkey prioritise their tourist industries in their vaccination campaigns, the question arises: should Spain be doing the same for its tourism-reliant regions?

On the 20th February, 37-year-old Mounir Jalal was on the small beach in front of the Fariones Hotel when he spotted a woman swimmer who was in trouble in the sea. That day, the waves were high, and there is often a strong current further out to sea near the pier in this area. For this reason, lifesavers had raised the red flag, which recommends that no one enters the water.

The effects of the vaccination drive on the Canaries may already be apparent, as recent figures show the apparent elimination of the virus in care homes, and a reduction in the amount of over 65-year-olds contracting the Covid virus on Lanzarote.

As the UK waits for Boris Johnson to announce his government's “holiday roadmap” later today, Spain will also have to address the recovery of its most important tourist market. And the first thing it will have to do is to make it legal in the first place.