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.

Sooner or later, there’s a chance you’ll need a test for Covid-19 – especially if you’re flying off-island in the near future. Here are the tests available, and what they do.

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.

There is guarded relief in Gibraltar after Britain and Spain arrived at a deal that will establish the British territory as a passport-free zone, allowing free movement across the what has joined the Irish frontier as the newest border zone in Europe.

For the third time this year, the Canaries faces a blow to tourism, after UK Transport Minister Grant Shapps announced the closure of the travel corridor with the Canaries.

January Island Information! A rundown of everything that is happening this month that you need to know; written in a brief and easy to understand format.

The British Embassy in Madrid has announced that it has “requested greater flexibility” from Spain, after reports of British residents in Spain not being permitted to board their flights home because their residence documents are not recognised.

The glimmer of positivity caused by the news that the Canaries has once again turned yellow, or medium-risk, on the ECDC map has been immediately tempered by the knowledge that Christmas has brought another rise in cases on the islands, as well as the extension of lockdown measures on Europe.