Updated 11.30pm: Sanidad confirms tonight that two more of the visitors in the Italian group have tested positive for coronavirus. Their samples will now also be sent to the Carlos III Health Inst for confirmation.  Updated 9pm: The Canarian Government says that the Italian couple who have tested positive in Tenerife arrived here on the 17th of this month. They went straight from the plane to the bus to the hotel along with another group of 10 Italians, none of whom are showing any symptoms presently. Some 100 guests arrived at the hotel yesterday who had no contact with the Italians and who have been allowedREAD MORE

Updated 8.30pm: The Canarian Government has announced that state schools throughout Tenerife will remain closed tomorrow because of the calima, and reopen on Wednesday. Of course tomorrow is a public holiday in some municipios anyway (see HERE) so their schools would be closed anyway, but the Government now confirms that no schools will return until Wednesday. Updated 8pm: The Cabildo has said that two fires were reported as reactivated this evening in the Los Realejos municipio. The first in the mirador de La Grimona area has now been brought back under control while the other in the La Guancha area was a false alarm. The TF5READ MORE

Tomorrow 25 February is a public holiday in many parts of Tenerife. Though not island-wide, it is a local fiesta that many council areas have chosen as one of their two municipal days. Many shops and offices will be closed in the non-touristic parts of the municipalities listed below which have done so: the full list of 2020’s national, regional, insular, and municipal public holidays is HERE. Martes de Carnaval is a public holiday in these municipalities: Adeje, Arafo, Arico, Arona, Candelaria, El Rosario, El Sauzal, Fasnia, Granadilla, Icod, La Matanza, La Orotava, La Victoria, La Laguna, Puerto de la Cruz, San Miguel, Santa Cruz,READ MORE