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.

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.