To say that UD Lanzarote have had a troubled start to the season would be putting it mildly. Six games into the 2020/21 campaign and the results are: Played six, won one, drawn one, and lost four; which leaves the Rojillos at the foot of the table.

As Lanzarote recorded a record daily total of Covid-19 infections yesterday, Cabildo president María Dolores Corujo warned “the figures are much more worrying than they were in summer.”

The director of health services on Lanzarote has said that Lanzarote is now experiencing the “third wave” of the coronavirus and that if it behaves like the second wave “we have three or four weeks to ride it through.

La Graciosa has become the Canary Island with the highest infection rate after a recent outbreak of three cases on the island. The island’s official of population of 734 means that the island has a rate of 408 per 100,000 people.

Second-home owners will now find it easier to eject squatters after a Supreme Court recently redefined the concept of residence to include these properties.

While storm Filomena caused floods on the western Canaries and has brought the heaviest snowfall in years to Madrid, Lanzarote escaped relatively lightly. The island can now relax and enjoy the results of the good soaking that the island has needed for so long.

The UK government yesterday announced that everyone who entered the country would have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test taken in the three days prior to departure. The measure applies to UK nationals, as well as foreigners, with exemptions for children under 11 and other groups such as hauliers and air crew.

The Canarian Government has responded to the rise in coronavirus cases on the islands over the Christmas holiday by replacing the old traffic light system with a new three-level system. For two weeks from next Monday morning (January 11th), Lanzarote will be in Level 2 along with Gran Canaria and La Gomera

The LZ 40 road, which connects the airport to Puerto del Carmen, will be widened in a €380,000 project that has just been put out out to tender by the Canarian Government.

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Lanzarote now has the highest 7-day rate of infection on the Canaries after 23 further cases were reported yesterday, bringing the total to 182. Lanzarote’s 7-day infection rate is currently 84.7, slightly higher than Tenerife’s 84 and well above the Canarian average of 69.7.

Although the traditional parades lined with crowds of clamouring children have been banned due to Covid, Their Royal Highnesses Baltasar, Caspar and Melchior will still be visiting several parts of Lanzarote on January 5th, after their long journey from the Orient.

As Europe locks down, there 's little chance that Lanzarote will issue similar “stay at home” orders and travel bans in the near future, despite a recent increase in new Covid cases.

I really hope that 2021 is a kinder year for all of us. It has been very strange seeing the resorts so quiet over the festive season and even the Día de los Reyes (King’s Day) processions were cancelled this year.