Mask use will no longer be compulsory outdoors from the 26th June, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced yesterday.

Tragedy returned to Órzola last night after a patera carrying migrants capsized off shore. At the time of writing, three fatalities have been confirmed – two women – one of whom was pregnant, and a man.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez yesterday promised “We'll soon be able to take off our masks outdoors”, shortly before a meeting of the inter-regional council on health issues failed to agree on a date for lifting the measure.

The Dia de San Juan (St John’s Day), on the 23rd June, marks midsummer and is celebrated with bonfires throughout Spain. This event has caused the Lanzarote Security and Emergency Consortium to produce a list of dos and don’ts for those celebrating the event next Wednesday.

La Graciosa is set to become the first of the Canary Islands to reach the target of full vaccination of all over-16s, following a decision by the Canarian Health Council to provide vaccines for all the island. It is estimated that the island will reach this objective by 4th July.

Lanzarote Limpia touched down on La Graciosa yesterday and gathered huge amounts of litter and waste from the beach at Caleta de Sebo.

The Canaries has announced further details of its Tourist Bonus, which will be available from 1st July.

A massive step-up in the vaccination programme on Lanzarote means that the island could reach its target of vaccinating 70% of the population over the age of 16 before the end of July, if the current rate of immunisation continues.

The Canaries and all of Spain was horrified yesterday at the news that a body discovered off the coast of Tenerife was that of six-year-old Olivia Gimeno Zimmermann, who was abducted along with her one-year-old sister Anna by their father, Tomás Gimeno, in late April.

The Tias Ayuntamiento have reopened the public showers and bathrooms for Puerto del Carmen’s beaches.

AEMET have issued yellow weather warnings for Lanzarote across today and tomorrow.

The Canarian Government has announced that the vaccine programme on the islands will include children from 12 years old upwards once the target of vaccinating 70% of the population over the age of 16 is achieved.

As Lanzarote and the Canaries improve their Covid figures, a tiny municipality in Tenerife has registered some of the highest infection rates ever recorded on the islands.

The Canarian Government has announced that it is working on a Canarian Holiday Bonus that will subsidise the holidays of Canarian residents who take their holiday on the islands.