The Canarian Health Council has announced that everyone who has a birthday between the ages of 50 and 59 this year should be contacted shortly to receive the first appointment for their coronavirus vaccine, if they have not been contacted already.

Lanzarote’s 7- and 14-day infection rates are both in the high risk (Level 3) zone after several high daily tolls in the 20s and 30s. The 7-day rate stands at 106 and the 14-day rate at 177 - the highest rates in the Canaries, and also higher than the average for Spain as a whole.

The law requiring masks to be worn outdoors could be relaxed “in a few days” according to Fernando Simón, Spain’s director of Alerts and Emergencies.

More than 50% of Canarian palm trees on Lanzarote have been attacked by the Diocalendra palm weevil, according to experts.

Lanzarote has launched an innovative new project aimed at making the island “the first safe tourist destination in the world”. The project, titled Lanzarote Covid Safe, will be undertaken in collaboration with King’s College London,…

Germany has joined The Netherlands and Denmark by adding the Canaries to its green list of destinations from which returning tourists are not required to quarantine.

Following the recent outbreak of Covid 19 cases that has been traced to an Arrecife gym, Lanzarote is coming dangerously close to a return to Level 3, or “high risk” status, and authorities have taken special measures to contain what is the largest single outbreak on the island.

We’ve got more news than you can shake a stick at today, so we’ll try and keep it short, sweet and to the point.

After three general elections, it appears as though the UK government is finally going to keep its promise to grant votes for life to British nationals abroad.

Canarians are now free to leave their homes at any time of day, after the Canarian Supreme Court yesterday issued a sharp reminder to the Canarian Government that its earlier ruling, declaring the curfew illegal, was current law.

The Canarian Supreme Court (TSJC) has rejected the Canarian Government’s application to maintain the curfew measures that have been in operation during the State of Alarm, and has also ruled that limiting travel between the islands at Levels 3 and 4 is legal.

A large Covid outbreak stemming from a gym in Arrecife has caused a spike in active cases on Lanzarote, although the island still remains well within Level 2 status.

The Canaries failed to qualify for the UK government’s green list of destinations for quarantine-free travel, which Transport Minister Grant Shapps announced yesterday.

The Canarian Government has announced that it will continue all the restrictions that are currently in place, despite the expiry of Spain’s State of Alarm on Sunday.