by Buzzers - 3 years ago
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez held a press conference on Tuesday evening to explain his government’s plans for the de-escalation of coronavirus confinement measures in Spain. Sánchez began by expressing his sorrow for the loss to Spanish society of the victims of the coronavirus, before ex...
by Buzzers - 3 years ago
The de-escalation could vary in different areas, but for autonomies and the regional governments they will not be able to design anything by themselves. Moncloa will exclusively take command and will do so in much less haste than various communities claim. "It is not acceptable that, for example the...
by Buzzers - 3 years ago
The Security Forces and Corps (FCS) have made 400 arrests in the Canary Islands for breach of the mobility restrictions established by the state of alarm declared by the Government of Spain by Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14th, to deal with to the health crisis due to the coronavirus COVID-19....
by Buzzers - 3 years ago
The Canary Islands is going to be the Spanish regions hardest hit by the economic crisis that will follow the coronavirus health emergency. It is a phrase that its president, Ángel Víctor Torres, has repeated over and over again for days, but that behind it has provisions never before seen on the is...
by Buzzers - 4 years ago
The presidents of the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres and Francina Armengol, will request that the ports and airports of both archipelagos be "the last to start activity" when normality is restored, so that they reopen "at the end of the de-escalation and not before. "...
by Buzzers - 4 years ago
Two women with coronavirus left the Intensive Medicine Unit of the Molina Orosa Hospital on Monday, including the first patient to be admitted to this unit on the island. Both have been dismissed with applause by the health workers, although they will continue their recovery on the floor of the hosp...
by Buzzers - 4 years ago
The president of the Canary Association of Vacation Rentals (Ascav), Doris Borrego, said on Tuesday that this sub-sector will be "essential" to start the tourist recovery in the Canary Islands in the face of the "phobia" that hotels can generate among tourists. Any Central European or tourist is go...
by Buzzers - 4 years ago
Around 100,000 canaries who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus cannot benefit from the extraordinary aid that the central and autonomous governments have put into practice. They are those who work in the black, a problem that in the Archipelago is especially worrying due to the extraordinar...
by Buzzers - 4 years ago
Package holiday giant Jet 2 has announced plans to recommence its flights and vacation programme this summer - despite the Government advising against all non-essential travel indefinitely. In an email to customers who had booked deals, the airline, which flies to several European destinations fr...
by Buzzers - 4 years ago
The professor of the Ulpgc and spokesman for the scientific committee that advises the Government of the Canary Islands on the approach to the coronavirus, Lluís Serra, has advised this Monday that confinement will be "staggered" and avoiding crowds in restaurants and large events because "the peaks...
by Buzzers - 4 years ago
The Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce of the Government of the Canary Islands, Yaiza Castilla, today asked to intensify measures to support the tourism sector to achieve an early exit from the economic and social crisis in which the Islands are immersed, such as consequence of the situation...
by Buzzers - 4 years ago
The President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has announced that a new aircraft - the third this week - will land this Sunday on the islands with a new shipment of medical equipment from China and which has been purchased by the Canary Islands Executive. This was stated at a press c...
by Buzzers - 4 years ago
"It is worrisome, because I have tested positive but I have not had any symptoms." This is how Fran Godoy, who is one of the four Local Police officers who have tested positive for coronavirus and relates how he fought for 14 days to be tested. Godoy had been on leave for more than two weeks, and...
by Buzzers - 4 years ago
The Department of Cleaning and Public Services of Arrecife, under the direction of the popular mayor Roberto Herbón, has been increasing the disinfection in the exterior areas of municipal containers dedicated to urban waste, roads and exteriors of pharmacies, Post Office building , since Monday. an...
by Buzzers - 4 years ago
The regional councillor, José Antonio Valbuena, is in constant coordination with the companies Endesa and Red Eléctrica de España (REE), in order to ensure the proper functioning of electricity supplies. All control centres will be fully operational and operating normally 24 hours a day, taking the...