Holidaymakers may not be able to visit the Canary Islands until at least October. The region - which includes popular holiday hotspots Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Lanzaroteone - is one of the most devastated by the coronavirus crisis due to its economic reliance on the tourism trade.
And Spain has also been badly hit with more than 21,000 deaths and more than 200,000 confirmed cases since the pandemic began.
President Ángel Víctor Torres has now said that the prospect of hotels in the Canary Islands being open by June 1 as "too optimistic" and that if they open in July or August then they "would be walking in a good way." He also said that the re-introduction of tourism in the area would be staggered in phases.
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